• Scholars have recently found that one of the major issues of a pandemic is that it leads to discrimination of culturally vulnerable groups. This is because culturally determined inequalities, such as poverty or poor sanitation, render health care less accessible to certain groups, and it makes them more vulnerable to a pandemic outbreak than wealthier and more powerful cultural groups. Moreover, scholars found that an outbreak of a pandemic typically leads to a politics of blame. For example, se…Read more
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    Open peer commentary on the article “Loving the Earth by Loving a Place: A Situated Approach to the Love of Nature” by Laura Candiotto. Abstract: We argue that Candiotto demonstrates the virtues of enactive listening in a loving epistemology making an important contribution to the field of enactive ethics. Some critical considerations are put forward concerning the concept of participatory sense-making in the current literature and its applicability to a relationship with nature.
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    Gender dysphoria (GD) is marked by an incongruence between a person’s biological sex at birth, and their felt gender (or gender identity). There is continuing debate regarding the benefits and drawbacks of physiological treatment of GD in children, a pathway, beginning with endocrine treatment to suppress puberty. Currently, the main alternative to physiological treatment consists of the so-called “wait-and-see” approach, which often includes counseling or other psychotherapeutic treatment. In t…Read more
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    Le mal et la symbolique: Ricœur lecteur de Freud (edited book)
    with Azadeh Thiriez-Arjangi, Michael Funk Deckard, and Andrés Bruzzone
    De Gruyter. 2022.
    The contributions in this book address the relation between evil, symbolism and psychoanalysisc by focusing on the two works of Riœur in which these topics play the most prominent role: The Symbolism of Evil and Freud and Philosophy. Furthermore, the bilingual book includes contributions that examine the relation between evil, symbolism and psychoanalysis in Ricœur’s work in a more general fashion, by investigating his philosophy as a whole. It brings together both French and English chapters fr…Read more
  • Law and metadiscourse : Ricoeur on metaphysics and the ascription of rights
    In Marc de Leeuw, George H. Taylor & Eileen Brennan (eds.), Reading Ricoeur Through Law, Lexington Books. 2021.
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    Defending two dilemmas
    Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (9): 639-640. 2022.
    Ashley’s response to our recent paper argues that a fuller appreciation of the available clinical data, of the rights of children to autonomy, and of the primary purpose of gender-affirming endocrine treatment supports the rejection of both the pathway and consent dilemmas for the treatment of gender dysphoria, as raised in this journal. In this response, we highlight certain misrepresentations of our argument, and defend our conclusions against Ashley’s main objections.
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    This book examines Paul Ricœur’s moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence, complements recent developments in moral philosophy that tend toward moral relativism and understand responsibility and justice in naturalistic terms.
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    Recent enactive accounts of cognition have begun to disentangle social and normative aspects of the human mind. In this paper, we will contribute to this debate by developing an enactive account of moral development, i.e. the learning of ethical norms, and critical engagement with these norms through social affordances, participatory sense-making, and moral concern. The difficulty in articulating such an account is in reconciling the affective embodied aspects of moral experiences with the more …Read more
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    The Ambiguity of Justice: Paul Ricoeur on Universalism and Evil
    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 6 (2). 2015.
    In this article I will examine Ricœur’s idea of the universal in his understanding of justice. Scholars recently discussed the extent to which Ricœur understands universal moral norms and universal rules of justice in his anthropology of human action, and argue that Ricœur stresses too much the idea of universal moral norms with regard to cultural and moral diversity,. G. H. Taylor, “Reenvisioning Justice,” Lo Squarda 12 : 65-80). In this article I will take part in the debate about universalism…Read more
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    Responsibility and the Physical Body
    Philosophy Today 61 (3): 573-593. 2017.
    This article examines Paul Ricoeur’s discussion of analytical philosophy of language. I argue that Ricoeur’s idea of responsibility is exemplary for understanding this discussion and for understanding how Ricoeur conceives of the task of phenomenological hermeneutics in relation to analytical philosophy and cognitive science. According to Ricoeur, analytical philosophy of language explains how we use ordinary language for ascribing responsibility to the actions of agents (e.g., X is responsible …Read more
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    Fragilité, narrativité et la vie éthique : Une étude d’amour et fragilité de Gaëlle Fiasse
    Les Ateliers de l'Éthique / the Ethics Forum 12 (2-3): 262-271. 2017.
    GEOFFREY DIERCKXSENS
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    _The Ambiguity of Justice_ consists of a collection of essays that address difficulties and potential contradictions in thinking justice by focussing on Ricoeur's theory of justice and on the major thinkers that were influential for it.
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    Responsibility and the Physical Body
    Philosophy Today 61 (3): 573-593. 2017.
    This article examines Paul Ricoeur’s discussion of analytical philosophy of language. I argue that Ricoeur’s idea of responsibility is exemplary for understanding this discussion and for understanding how Ricoeur conceives of the task of phenomenological hermeneutics in relation to analytical philosophy and cognitive science. According to Ricoeur, analytical philosophy of language explains how we use ordinary language for ascribing responsibility to the actions of agents. I argue that Ricoeur sh…Read more
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    Introduction
    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 6 (2). 2015.
    Introduction to the issue dedicated to the question of "Justice at its Margins"
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    The Animal Inside: Essays at the Intersection of Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies (edited book)
    with Rudmer Bijlsma, Michael Begun, and Thomas Kiefer
    Rowman & Littlefield International. 2016.
    A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship between philosophical anthropology and animal studies.
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    Introduction
    Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies 6 (2). 2015.
    Introduction (française) au numéro sur les "frontières de la justice"
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    Two dilemmas for medical ethics in the treatment of gender dysphoria in youth
    Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (9): 603-607. 2022.
    Both the diagnosis and medical treatment of gender dysphoria —particularly in children and adolescents—have been the subject of significant controversy in recent years. In this paper, we outline the means by which GD is diagnosed in children and adolescents, the currently available treatment options, and the bioethical issues these currently raise. In particular, we argue that the families and healthcare providers of children presenting with GD currently face two main ethical dilemmas in decisio…Read more
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    Enactive Cognition and the Other: Enactivism and Levinas Meet Halfway
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 28 (1): 100-120. 2020.
    This paper makes a comparison between enactivism and Levinas’ philosophy. Enactivism is a recent development in philosophy of mind and cognitive science that generally defines cognition in terms of a subject’s natural interactions with the physical environment. In recent years, enactivists have been focusing on social and ethical relations by introducing the concept of participatory sensemaking, according to which ethical know-how spontaneously emerges out of natural relations of participation a…Read more