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    Neuroethics is an interdisciplinary field that arose in response to novel ethical challenges posed by advances in neuroscience. Historically, neuroethics has provided an opportunity to synergize different disciplines, notably proposing a two-way dialogue between an ‘ethics of neuroscience’ and a ‘neuroscience of ethics’. However, questions surface as to whether a ‘neuroscience of ethics’ is a useful and unified branch of research and whether it can actually inform or lead to theoretical insights…Read more
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    In Favor of PGD: The Moral Duty to Avoid Harm Argument
    American Journal of Bioethics 12 (4): 12-13. 2012.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 4, Page 12-13, April 2012
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    On the Reform of the First Philosophy: After Leibniz, Maine de Biran
    Perspectives on Science 32 (1): 15-27. 2024.
    Leibniz is one of the philosophers who is most present in the philosophy of Maine de Biran, particularly from 1813 onwards. His influence is decisive in the reform of metaphysics (or First Philosophy) that he carries out from that moment on, reviving the notion of substance. Leibniz allows him to reconcile it with the idea of force, and thus to link it to the primitive fact of consciousness. This move has often been emphasized by commentators, but what has been less studied is the way in which t…Read more
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    Deviens meilleur! est un imperatif pour l'etre humain. Nous avons besoin de nous perfectionner sans cesse, de nous depasser parfois, pour atteindre les buts que nous nous fixons ou que d'autres nous fixent. Cette aspiration a d'ailleurs ete conceptualisee comme un devoir moral par certains philosophes tels Kant ou Aristote. Pourtant, ce projet d'amelioration, remis au centre de l'actualite sous le nom de human enhancement par des auteurs anglo-saxons, est actuellement recu avec fraicheur, voire …Read more
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    Actions et omissions, effets voulus et effets latéraux : le conséquentialisme contre la morale intuitive
    Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique 2 (1): 17-28. 2019.
    Intuitively, we judge that our responsibility has more to do with what we do than what we omit to do, and that it extends more to intended effects than to side-effects of our deeds. These intuitions have been expressed in our tradition through two principles: the doctrine of acts and omissions and the doctrine of double effect. Jonathan Glover acknowledges that these two principles are important, but believes that it is eventually better to discard them and, instead, to stick to the consequentia…Read more
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    Neurodiversity, Ethics and Medicine
    Proceedings of the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy 59 9-13. 2018.
    Progress in our knowledge of the brain’s functioning has led to two related trends. The first consists in a medicalisation of some behaviours that, till now, were considered as pertaining to ethics. The second, in an opposite manner, consists in attributing several conditions, generally considered as pathological or immoral, to human normal diversity, whence the introduction of a new concept: neurodiversity. Thus, for some authors, autism and hyperactivity would not be diseases, psychopathy and …Read more
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    Actions et omissions, effets voulus et effets latéraux: le conséquentialisme contre la morale intuitive
    Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique 2 (1): 17-28. 2019.
    Intuitively, we judge that our responsibility has more to do with what we do than what we omit to do, and that it extends more to intended effects than to side-effects of our deeds. These intuitions have been expressed in our tradition through two principles: the doctrine of acts and omissions and the doctrine of double effect. Jonathan Glover acknowledges that these two principles are important, but believes that it is eventually better to discard them and, instead, to stick to the consequentia…Read more
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    It's Not Who You Are
    with Samia A. Hurst and Alex Mauron
    American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 1 (3): 18-19. 2010.
  • L'existence est-elle un prédicat. Signification et enjeux de la question
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 114 (n/a): 321. 1982.
  • Y. Ch. ZARKA, "La décision métaphysique de Hobbes" (review)
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 121 (n/a): 110. 1989.
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    Human Dignity as a Component of a Long-Lasting and Widespread Conceptual Construct
    Journal 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
  • Qu'est-ce qu'une personne humaine? Réflexions sur les fondements philosophiques de la bioéthique
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 121 (2): 173-193. 1989.
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    Marqués 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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    Mind-Reading for the Sake of Justice
    Substance 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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    Le suicide est «un vol fait au genre humain»
    Revue Philosophique De Louvain 101 (1): 58-70. 2003.
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    Maine de Biran: oeuvres
    with Pierre Maine de Biran
    Vrin. 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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    Defeating the Argument from Hubris
    Bioethics 27 (8): 435-441. 2013.
    Biotechnologies – synthetic biology in particular – are sometimes blamed for playing God or manifesting hubris, that is, for evincing the vicious attitude of transcending the limits of human agency. In trying to create living organisms, we would adopt an attitude that is immoral for human beings. In this article, I want to show that this blame is unwarranted. I distinguish two aspects of the argument, which claims that it is impossible for human beings to create life and immoral to attempt it. I…Read more
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    Le réalisme scientifique de Feyerabend
    Dialogue 25 (2): 267-. 1986.
    Les attaques que Feyerabend a dirigées depuis un certain temps contre les conceptions dominantes de la rationalité scientifique, celles des inductivistes et de Popper principalement, sont intimement liées à sa manière d'envisager l'opposition entre le réalisme scientifique et l'instrumentalisme, c'est-à-dire entre deux thèses concernant les rapports de la rèalité et de la connaissance scientifique. C'est ce dernier point que nous aimerions aborder ici, dans le projet d'y apporter un certain nom-…Read more
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    Les fondements de la morale de Maine de Biran
    Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 88 (4). 1983.
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    I. Oeuvres de Jeunesse
    with Pierre Maine de Biran
    Vrin. 2000.
    Les textes que nous reproduisons dans ce volume ont ete rediges entre 1792 et 1798. Ce sont les premiers ecrits philosophiques de Maine de Biran, jalonnant une pensee qui se forme peu a peu, avant d'aboutir a un premier resultat, le memoire intitule Influence de l'habitude sur la faculte de penser, dont la redaction commence vers la fin 1799, le sujet ayant ete mis au concours le 6 octobre par l'Institut. Tous les textes regroupes dans ce volume appartiennent a cette periode de formation, qui do…Read more
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    Diderot, Cabanis and Lamarck on Psycho-Physical Causality
    with Bernard Baetschi
    History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 27 (3/4). 2005.
    Modern physics was born in the 17th century and modern biology one century later. Immediately, scientifics and philosophers ask themselves what is the relationship between those two sciences and between properties of non-living and living matter. Among those scientifics and philosophers, some think that mental phenomena are of biological nature — they are materialists —, so they encounter a second problem: what is the relationship between properties of non-thinking and thinking living matter? Th…Read more
  • Mats G. HANSSON, "Human Dignity and Animal Well-being" (review)
    Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie 127 (n/a): 87. 1995.