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There’s something about Mary: The moral value of things qua information objects

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Luciano Floridi argues that every existing entity is deserving of at least minimal moral respect in virtue of having intrinsic value qua “information object.” In this essay, I attempt a comprehensive assessment of this important view as well as the arguments Floridi offers in support of it. I conclude both that the arguments are insufficient and that the thesis itself is substantively implausible from the standpoint of ordinary intuitions.

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Himma, K.E. There’s something about Mary: The moral value of things qua information objects. Ethics Inf Technol 6, 145–159 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-004-3804-4

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