The WE-turn of Action: Principles

At the request of the editors, Prof. Yasuo Deguchi has formulated, for the purposes of the special issue dedicated to his work, the main tenets of the "WE-turn(s)" advocated in his philosophy, which he has up to now published almost exclusively in Japanese, and in various keynote speeches presented at conferences and in workshops worldwide.Versions of his treatise have been circulated among the invited authors of the special issue, who have developed their responses to his thought on this basis. From Action Theory to AxiologyThe WE-turn has an argumentative structure that derives many WE-turns one after another in a domino-style, through various inferences from numerous premises.The first WE-turn is a thesis of philosophical action theory, from which various WE-turns on values are derived.In this sense, the WE-turn directly links the theory of action and the theory of value or axiology in a way that the latter is based on the former. Toward an Alternative Model for Human-AI RelationshipMembers of the "WE" here include AI and other artifacts, non-human animals, and the natural environment.By including these various agents other than the "I" and other humans into the "WE," the WE-turn also proposes an alternative model for the ideal relationship between humans and AI to the conventional one.