The 2006 health care reforms in the Netherlands were aimed at improving the affordability, accessibility, and quality of health care, as well as freedom in health care. However, the reality is that since the reforms (which include the privatisation of health-care insurance), costs have further increased and accessibility has decreased while freedom...
Review of Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves by Jeff Sebo
Le projet AnthropoPhiBio se donne pour but de croiser les approches de l’anthropologie, de la philosophie et de la biologie de l’évolution. Il s’agit de faire dialoguer l’anthropologie philosophique allemande avec les théories actuelles sur l’hominisation développées par diverses disciplines comme la paléoanthropologie ou les neurosciences. Ce proj...
Beyond the past, present, future and possible conceptual varieties and variations as well asapplications or uses, our purpose is to try to understand what can be concealed and revealed, in termsof residual elements, the various & multiple aspectual dimensions of the idea of " View from Nowhere".For these reasons, we propose to question the concept ...
Cet article s'attache à dégager sur quelques exemples les conditions de possibilité de l'expression de la généralité en mathématiques. Au cours du XXe siècle les mathématiciens ont pu énoncer des théorèmes portant sur la totalité des théorèmes (théorèmes d'incomplétude de Gödel, etc.). L'introduction du théorème de Löwenheim-Skolem nous donnera l'o...
Demeuré inédit jusqu’en 1990, le manuscrit de l’Enfer du couvent d’Arcangela Tarabotti, présenté pour la première fois en traduction française, est un témoignage acéré et polémique sur la condition des jeunes filles des classes aisées contraintes à prendre le voile. À la description des souffrances vécues par ces religieuses, s’ajoute une magistral...
Published in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB
It is well-known that racism is encoded into the social practices and institutions of medicine. Less well-known is that racism is encoded into the material artifacts of medicine. We argue that many medical devices are not merely biased, but materialize oppression. An oppressive device exhibits a harmful bias that reflects and perpetuates unjust pow...
Published in Acta neurochirurgica
The aim of this mini-review paper is to present an overview of work on consciousness from a philosophical perspective, and to argue for the continuing relevance of philosophy in consciousness research. After introducing some major philosophical positions about the relationship between consciousness and matter, we argue that the problem of conscious...
