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87Neuroethics 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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27In Favor of PGD: The Moral Duty to Avoid Harm ArgumentAmerican 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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6On the Reform of the First Philosophy: After Leibniz, Maine de BiranPerspectives 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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12De l'humain augmenté au posthumain: une approche bioéthiqueLibrairie philosophique J. Vrin. 2019.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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8Actions et omissions, effets voulus et effets latéraux : le conséquentialisme contre la morale intuitiveCanadian 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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25Neurodiversity, Ethics and MedicineProceedings 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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9Actions et omissions, effets voulus et effets latéraux: le conséquentialisme contre la morale intuitiveCanadian 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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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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Le «machinisme des bêtes»: Tout compte fait, Descartes n'avait pas entièrement tortStudia Philosophica 55 53-83. 1996.
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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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28Human 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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6Marqués 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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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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40Le 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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24Defeating the Argument from HubrisBioethics 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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Maine de Biran et la Suisse, avec des textes inédits de Biran et des extraits de la correspondence d'Ernest NavilleCahiers de la Revue de Théologie Et de Philosophie. 1985.
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