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12La valeur de la vie humaine et l'intégrité de la personnePresses universitaires de France. 1995.Cette édition numérique a été réalisée à partir d'un support physique, parfois ancien, conservé au sein du dépôt légal de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, conformément à la loi n° 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 relative à l'exploitation des Livres indisponibles du XXe siècle. Pages de début Avant-propos Introduction Chapitre 1 Chapitre 2 Chapitre 3 Chapitre 4 Chapitre 5 Chapitre 6 Chapitre 7 Conclusion Bibliographie Pages defin.
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La question du libre arbitre en France, de la Révolution à la Restauration: Les Idéologues et Maine de BiranStudia Philosophica 49 (n/a): 103. 1990.
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54The european embryonic stem-cell debate and the difficulties of embryological kantianismJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (5). 2004.As elsewhere, the ethical debate on embryonic stem cell research in Central Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland, involves controversy over the status of the human embryo. There is a distinctive Kantian flavor to the standard arguments however, and we show how they often embody a set of misunderstandings and argumentative shortcuts we term "embryological Kantianism." We also undertake a broader analysis of three arguments typically presented in this debate, especially in official position …Read more
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51Genetic determinism, neuronal determinism, and determinism tout courtIn Judy Illes & Barbara J. Sahakian (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 151. 2011.This article analyses neuronal determinism and mentions that at first sight it appears to be a type of qualified determinism. Neurodeterminism is better conceived as determinism tout court when it is applied to human beings. It differs importantly from genetic determinism, together the two views that are often regarded as similar in form if not in content. Moreover, the article examines the question of genetic determinism, because it is a paradigm of qualified determinism. It then explains the m…Read more
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Maine de Biran et la Suisse, Cahiers de la Revue de Théologie et de Philosophie, n° 12Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 177 (3): 356-356. 1987.
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B. BAERTSCHI, FR. AZOUVI: "Maine de Biran et la Suisse" (review)Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 118 (n/a): 106. 1986.
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L'"idéologie subjective" de Maine de Biran et la phénoménologieRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 113 (n/a): 109. 1981.
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Le «machinisme des bêtes»: Tout compte fait, Descartes n'avait pas entièrement tortStudia Philosophica 55 53-83. 1996.
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Oeuvres, t. VIII : Rapports des sciences naturelles avec la psychologie et autres écrits sur la psychologieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 49 (3): 543-543. 1987.
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79The Moral Status of Artificial LifeEnvironmental Values 21 (1). 2012.Recently at the J. Craig Venter Institute, a microorganism has been created through synthetic biology. In the future, more complex living beings will very probably be produced. In our natural environment, we live amongst a whole variety of beings. Some of them have moral status — they have a moral importance and we cannot treat them in just any way we please —; some do not. When it becomes possible to create artificially living beings who naturally possess moral status, will this artificiality m…Read more
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Les circonstances de la justice internationaleStudia Philosophica 64 55-80. 2005.Distributive justice, like every other value, is not suspended in mid-air: its implementation depends on certain conditions, the well-known ‹circumstances of justice›. In this paper, I attempt to spell them out, first for justice proper , then for international justice. Those circumstances relate to the conceptual parts of justice and are four in number: scarcity, needs and merit, social cooperation, and authority of distribution. As far as international justice is concerned, there is a problem …Read more
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8Neurosciences et responsabilité morale: Un argument en faveur du compatibilismeRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 143 (3): 257-272. 2011.
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La vie humaine est-elle sacrée? Euthanasie et assistance au suicideRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 125 (4): 359-381. 1993.
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Y. Ch. ZARKA, "La décision métaphysique de Hobbes" (review)Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 121 (n/a): 110. 1989.
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L'existence est-elle un prédicat. Signification et enjeux de la questionRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 114 (n/a): 321. 1982.
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Qu'est-ce qu'une personne humaine? Réflexions sur les fondements philosophiques de la bioéthiqueRevue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 121 (2): 173-193. 1989.
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30Human Dignity as a Component of a Long-Lasting and Widespread Conceptual ConstructJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (2): 201-211. 2014.For some decades, the concept of human dignity has been widely discussed in bioethical literature. Some authors think that this concept is central to questions of respect for human beings, whereas others are very critical of it. It should be noted that, in these debates, dignity is one component of a long-lasting and widespread conceptual construct used to support a stance on the ethical question of the moral status of an action or being. This construct has been used from Modernity onward to con…Read more
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16Mind-Reading for the Sake of JusticeSubstance 45 (2): 9-26. 2016.To read into the mind of another person has for a long time been a fantasy—and sometimes a vague possibility. In science fiction, there are stories of aliens who are able to decipher the thoughts of other beings using some type of device. When I was a boy, I remember reading a cartoon of Bibi Fricotin, in which Bibi, a young boy like me, found some glasses that allowed him to read other people’s thoughts. For a time, I was afraid when I came across adults wearing glasses. With such devices, priv…Read more
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8Marqués par Descartes et Locke, les philosophes de ce siècle se sont notamment intéressés à l'épistémologie devenue alors discipline philosophique fondamentale.
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43Le suicide est «un vol fait au genre humain»Revue Philosophique De Louvain 101 (1): 58-70. 2003.
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5Maine de Biran: oeuvresVrin. 1984.Les textes rassembles ici marquent un tournant decisif de la philosophie biranienne: apres avoir developpe sa pensee dans les Memoires couronnes (tomes II, III, IV, VI), Maine de Biran, revenant sur ses pas, estime qu'il a laisse sans solution les problemes de la metaphysiques classiques. Il s'efforce d'y repondre a partir de son propre point de vue et elabore a cet effet ses theories de la croyance et de l'absolu: l'etre ne se reduit pas au phenomene qui le manifeste; etre, ce n'est pas etre pe…Read more
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10What is it like to be ‘tuned’? Moral lessons drawn from experiences of enhancementJahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 18 (1). 2014.
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4La conception de la conscience développée par MérianIn Helmut Holzhey & Martin Fontius (eds.), Schweizer Im Berlin des 18. Jahrhunderts: Internationale Fachtagung, 25. Bis 28. Mai 1994 in Berlin, De Gruyter. pp. 231-248. 1996.
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Ouverture des marchés et ouverture des esprits. La mondialisation sonne-t-elle le glas du nationalisme?Studia Philosophica. forthcoming.
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