Paul Dumouchel is Professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He is the author of "Le sacrifice inutile essai sur la violence politique" (Paris: Flammarion, 2011) and "The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays" (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and co-edited with Rieko Gotoh "Against Injustice the New Economics of Amartya Sen" (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His latest book published by Harvard University Press is "Living with Robots: Artificial Empathy and Philosophy of Mind".