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1L’ontologie appliquée : un dialogue entre métaphysique analytique et traitement de l’informationIn André Lacroix (ed.), La philosophie pratique, Les Presses De L’université De Laval. pp. 87-107. 2020.
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8From slot mereology to a mereology of slotsApplied ontology 1-50. forthcoming.In 2013, Bennett proposed a mereological theory in which the parthood relation is defined on the basis of two primitive relations: a is a part of b iff a fills a slot owned by b. However, this theory has issues counting how many parts an entity has. We explore the various counting problems and propose a new theory to solve them. Keeping the core idea of Bennett’s slots, this theory introduces mereological relations between slots. This theory enables us to solve all known counting problems and to…Read more
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29Meta-consent for the secondary use of health data within a learning health system: a qualitative study of the public’s perspectiveBMC Medical Ethics 22 (1): 1-17. 2021.BackgroundThe advent of learning healthcare systems (LHSs) raises an important implementation challenge concerning how to request and manage consent to support secondary use of data in learning cycles, particularly research activities. Current consent models in Quebec were not established with the context of LHSs in mind and do not support the agility and transparency required to obtain consent from all involved, especially the citizens. Therefore, a new approach to consent is needed. Previous w…Read more
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129From Libertarian Paternalism to Nudging—and BeyondReview of Philosophy and Psychology 6 (3): 341-359. 2015.
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7Ontologies appliquées biomédicales et ontologie philosophique : un développement complémentaireLato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 3 (1): 1-8. 2016.The massive increase of data generated by heterogeneous sources requires the development of computer tools enabling their semantic interoperability. Applied ontologies aim at fulfilling such needs. We will show in this article the central role that philosophical ontology can play for applied ontology, with a focus on biomedical ontologies; and reciprocally, how applied ontology can enlighten some classical issues in philosophical ontology, by considering the following question: Is disease a natu…Read more
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45Affordances and their ontological coreApplied ontology 17 (2): 285-320. 2022.The notion of affordance remains elusive, notwithstanding its importance for the representation of agency, cognition, and behaviors. This paper lays down a foundation for an ontology of affordances by elaborating the idea of “core affordance” which would serve as a common ground for explaining existing diverse conceptions of affordances and their interrelationships. For this purpose, it analyzes M. T. Turvey’s dispositional theory of affordances in light of a formal ontology of dispositions. Con…Read more
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268Métaphysique analytique, métaphysique naturalisée et ontologie appliquéeIn Raphaël Künstler (ed.), Métaphysique et Sciences, Nouveaux problèmes, Hermann. 2022.La pertinence de la métaphysique analytique a fait l'objet de critiques : Ladyman et Ross, par exemple, ont suggéré d'abandonner ce domaine. French et McKenzie ont défendu la métaphysique analytique en affirmant qu'elle développe des outils qui pourraient s'avérer utiles pour la philosophie de la physique. Dans cet article, nous montrons dans un premier temps que cette défense heuristique de la métaphysique peut être étendue au domaine scientifique de l'ontologie appliquée, qui utilise des théor…Read more
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21Une ontologie dispositionnelle du risqueLato Sensu: Revue de la Société de Philosophie des Sciences 8 (2): 58-69. 2021.Risk is an ubiquitous entity in the biomedical domain. Thus, a coherent ontological characterization of risk, which can be used by informatical tools named "applied ontologies", is necessary to help with the exchange and the collection of data for clinical and research uses. We analyze some definitions of risk and draw two general characteristics that risks and dispositions share. We thus suggest that a risk is a disposition which has an undesirable realization for an agent. This definition conc…Read more
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14Gift, Reciprocity and Learning Health SystemsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 21 (4): 91-93. 2021.Lee suggests a conceptualization of health data sharing not merely as an act of altruism, but as a gift. The difference is important, as the inscription of the latter in a social context inv...
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2458Analytic Metaphysics versus Naturalized Metaphysics: The Relevance of Applied OntologyErkenntnis 86 (1): 21-37. 2021.The relevance of analytic metaphysics has come under criticism: Ladyman & Ross, for instance, have suggested do discontinue the field. French & McKenzie have argued in defense of analytic metaphysics that it develops tools that could turn out to be useful for philosophy of physics. In this article, we show first that this heuristic defense of metaphysics can be extended to the scientific field of applied ontology, which uses constructs from analytic metaphysics. Second, we elaborate on a paralle…Read more
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213How Tobacco Health Warnings Can Foster AutonomyPublic Health Ethics 6 (2): 207-219. 2013.I investigate whether tobacco health warnings’ interference with autonomy is ethically justifiable in order to deter people from smoking. I dissociate first the informational role and the persuasive role of tobacco health warnings and show that both roles enable typical addicted smokers to better rule themselves, fostering their autonomy. The fact that some messages address people’s non-deliberative faculties is therefore compensated by a larger positive influence on their autonomy. However, mis…Read more
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23A statistical taxonomy and another “chance” for natural frequenciesBehavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (3): 255-256. 2007.The conclusions of Barbey & Sloman (B&S) crucially depend on evidence for different representations of statistical information. Unfortunately, a muddled distinction made among these representations calls into question the authors' conclusions. We clarify some notions of statistical representations which are often confused in the literature. These clarifications, combined with new empirical evidence, do not support a dual-process model of judgment
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6Comparing risk reductions: On the dynamic interplay of cognitive strategies, numeracy, complexity and formatIn N. A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, . 2009.