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...

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Published in:	Synthese Vol. 185; no. 1; pp. 89 - 103
Main Author:	Sandler, Ronald
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Mar2012
Subjects:	Organisms Naturalness (Environmental sciences) Artificial life Values (Ethics) Genetic engineering Artificial intelligence
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost