Do we have moral duties towards information objects?

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 10, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 109-114

  Brey, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anthropocentrism; Artifacts; Bioethics; Environmental ethics; Information ethics; Informational realism; Intrinsic value; Object Oriented Programming; Respect

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOCENTRISM; ARTIFACTS; BIOETHICS; ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS; INFORMATION ETHICS; INFORMATIONAL REALISM; INTRINSIC VALUE; RESPECT;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

EID: 56549103328     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-008-9170-x     Document Type: Article

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