Published in Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy
The notion of harm has been a recurring and a significant notion in the characterization of mental disorder. It is present in eminent diagnostic manuals such as DSM and ICD, as well as in the discussion on mental disorders in philosophy of psychiatry. Recent demotion of harm in the definition of mental disorders in DSM-5 shows a general trend towar...
Paraphrases are prevalent in ontological debates. Their main target is to avoid ontological commitment to particular (kinds of) entities. For example, a sentence such as 'There is a chance of rain' apparently commits to the existence of chances. However, as we can paraphrase this sentence to 'It is likely that it rains' which is not ontologically c...
L'annotation sémantique d'images est un domaine d'une importance primordiale dans lequel l'apprentissage profond excelle. Cependant, certains domaines d'application, comme la sécurité ou la médecine, peuvent nécessiter une explication de cette annotation. L'intelligence artificielle explicable est une réponse à ce besoin. Dans ce travail, nous nous...
Published in Synthese
A characterization of epistemic rationality, or epistemic justification, is typically taken to require a process of conceptual clarification, and is seen as comprising the core of a theory of (epistemic) rationality. I propose to explicate the concept of rationality. It is essential, I argue, that the normativity of rationality, and the purpose, or...
Published in European Journal for Philosophy of Science
In recent years two different axiomatic characterizations of the intuitive concept of effective calculability have been proposed, one by Sieg and the other by Dershowitz and Gurevich. Analyzing them from the perspective of Carnapian explication, I argue that these two characterizations explicate the intuitive notion of effective calculability in tw...
The scope of this paper can be clarified by means of a well-known phenomenon that is usually called 'industrial melanism': the fact that the melanic form of the peppered moth became dominant in industrial areas in England in the second half of the nineteenth century. Such changes in relative phenotype frequencies are important explananda for popula...
Cette recherche porte sur des activités fortement multimodales constituantes d’un projet vidéo mené en collaboration avec des aides à domicile, dans le contexte de la formation linguistique des adultes. Ces activités centrées sur l’explication de procédures sont réalisées dans diverses situations, faiblement ou fortement instrumentées (oral spontan...
Carnap suggests that philosophy can be construed as being engaged solely in conceptual engineering. I argue that since many results of the sciences can be construed as stemming from conceptual engineering as well, Carnap’s account of philosophy can be methodologically naturalistic. This is also how he conceived of his account. That the sciences can...
Comprendre les phénomènes qui nous entourent, voilà un des buts ultimes des sciences. Cela consiste souvent à interroger les modèles mathématiques des systèmes impliqués. L’ordinateur permet aujourd’hui la construction de modèles de plus en plus complexes, et élargit ainsi nos champs d’investigation. Cependant, en suppléant l’humain dans...
Introduction : durant les dernières décennies, les expériences de mort imminente ont fait l’objet d’un grand nombre de publications scientifiques dont les résultats, fréquemment contradictoires, remettent en question non seulement la méthodologie actuelle de la recherche sur les états modifiés de conscience, mais questionne aussi la validité du par...
