Is artefactualness a value-relevant property of living things?
Artefacts are often regarded as being mere things that possess only instrumental value. In contrast, living entities (or some subset of them) are often regarded as possessing some form of intrinsic (or non-instrumental) value. Moreover, in some cases they are thought to possess such value precisely...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103 |
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