The ongoing debate on the ethics of self-driving cars typically focuses on two approaches to answering ethical questions: moral philosophy and social science. I argue that these two approaches are both lacking. We should neither deduce answers from individual moral theories nor should we expect social science to give us complete answers. To supplement these approaches, we should turn to political philosophy. The issues we face are collective decisions that we make together rather than individual decisions we make in light of what we each have reason to value. Political philosophy adds three basic concerns to our conceptual toolkit: reasonable pluralism, human agency, and legitimacy. These three concerns have so far been largely overlooked in the debate on the ethics of self-driving cars.

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技术伦理需要更多的政治哲学

关于自动驾驶汽车伦理的持续辩论通常集中在回答伦理问题的两种方法上：道德哲学和社会科学。我认为这两种方法都缺乏。我们既不应该从个人的道德理论中推断出答案，也不应该期望社会科学给我们完整的答案。为了补充这些方法，我们应该转向政治哲学。我们面临的问题是我们共同做出的集体决定，而不是我们根据每个人都有理由重视的事情做出的个人决定。政治哲学为我们的概念工具包增加了三个基本问题：合理的多元主义、人类能动性和合法性。迄今为止，在有关自动驾驶汽车伦理的辩论中，这三个问题在很大程度上被忽视了。