Informationally objectifying beings: A critique on Floridi’s moral status of information objects

• Main Author: Cabangon, Emmanuel Ernest T.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2024
• Subjects: Philosophy of mind; Luciano Floridi—Criticism and interpretation; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/16; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_philo/article/1023/viewcontent/2024_Cabangon_Informationally_Objectifying_Beings__A_Critique_on_Floridi_Full_text.pdf; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/etdb_philo/article/1023/filename/0/type/additional/viewcontent/2024_Cabangon_Extended_Abstract.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

This paper aims to intersect Floridi’s informational theory with the traditional accounts of moral status. Moral status asserts the importance of the entity’s rights and practical respect from other agents. In answering the question “who deserves moral status?”, the classical views of moral status a...