Conference presentation
Metaphysics and Metaphors: Re-thinking Corporate Identity in the Age of AI
Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCOLA) Conference: Re: The Corporation Re-Thinking, Re-Forming, Re-Imagining, 2022 (Sippy Downs, Australia, 03-Jul-2022 - 05-Jul-2022)
University of the Sunshine Coast
2022
Abstract
This paper engages in a consideration of the imaginary of artificial personhood via an engagement with identity metaphysics. It considers the way in which the notion of corporate personhood at times leads to the analogising of the corporation with a human person and attributing it rights and obligations on that basis. By contrast, an engagement with identity metaphysics enables a distinction to be made between personal and physical identity, the latter being more appropriate to a consideration of artificial corporate persons. On this basis it considers whether the metaphor of a ‘ship’ is a more useful way of thinking about the nature of the corporate form. Drawing upon the Ship of Theseus thought experiment in identity metaphysics (and a particular recent popular rendering of it), the paper engages in a comparison between the nature of identity as the basis for corporate legal personhood, legal personhood for AI and their intersection in Corporate Technology.
Details
- Title
- Metaphysics and Metaphors: Re-thinking Corporate Identity in the Age of AI
- Authors
- Jordan Belor (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Conference details
- Society of Corporate Law Academics (SCOLA) Conference: Re: The Corporation Re-Thinking, Re-Forming, Re-Imagining, 2022 (Sippy Downs, Australia, 03-Jul-2022 - 05-Jul-2022)
- Publisher
- University of the Sunshine Coast
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Criminology - Legacy; School of Law and Society; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99677496302621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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