There's something about Mary: The moral value of things qua information objects
Ethics and Information Technology 6 (3) (2004)
| Abstract | . 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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