Anna C Zielinska

University of Lorraine | UdL · Département de Philosophie

Les autocollants \textquoteleftanti LGBT\textquoteright qui sont apparus en Pologne fin juillet participent d'un même terreau haineux, où les ultra-conservateurs retournent le discours victimaire à leur avantage.

The unique Israeli nation-wide programme of voluntary, free-of-charge programme of “population genetic screening for reproductive purposes” screens for “frequent and severe” genetic diseases. It is grounded in the observation that specific groups in Israeli population carry “founder mutations”: changes in DNA appearing with a high frequency in a gi...

This paper traces the intellectual trajectories of the first stand-alone theories of action, understood as both axiologically neutral and quasi-scientific from a methodological point of view. I argue that the rise of action theory of this kind corresponds to a particular moment of dissatisfaction within Western thought, and as such, it tells us far...

Ontology is omnipresent in Hilary Putnam's work - philosophy of mathematics, of sciences, of perception, his epistemology and finally his ethics are incessantly challenged with ontological queries. Putnam's philosophical enterprise seems to be guided by the following question: how can we think the world without a strong and definitive ontology, but...

This paper argues that the function of moral education in the biomedical context should be exactly the same as in a general, philosophical framework: it should not provide ready-to-use kits of moral principles; rather, it must show the history, epistemology and conceptual structure of moral theories that would enable those who have to make decision...

The tradition of legal positivism was rather reluctant towards the important taken by the abstract and pre-legal notion of “right” in political and social discourse. But the situation started to change after the Second World War, and, even more, in the 1960s, when “human rights” imposed themselves within a variety of discourses. In order to respond...

The debate between reductionism and anti-reductionism, dealing with the ultimate constituents of the world, is one of the fundamental issues in the philosophy of science. However, in biology, reductionism is less of an ontological and more of an epistemological question: it argues that the explanation of biological processes resides in deciphering...

La recherche sur le cancer bénéficie depuis quelques années de la révolution technologique permettant de séquencer les génomes à grande échelle. Les données obtenues confirment l\textquoterightampleur de la complexité génétique des cancers, suspectée depuis longtemps déjà. Alors que l\textquoterighthypothèse de mutations somatiques au niveau cellul...

IntroductionPreliminaries: Thinking about LanguageOneself as AgentMistaken DichotomiesIntentionAction as a Story about the AgentReferences

The aim of this paper is to examine the epistemological implications of a generalized application of the precautionary principle. The scientific community is in fact commonly critical towards the precautionary principle, on account of its alleged incompatibility with research, innovation and scientific progress. After identifying the precise upshot...

L’expression « principe de précaution » fonctionne souvent comme une maxime de précaution, et non pas comme un principe universel d’action. Cet usage n’est toutefois pas celui qui est entendu par les personnes traitant de cette question dans le cadre des interrogations liées à la protection de l’environnement. Le principe de précaution, tel qu’il a...

Tadeusz Kotarbinski’s philosophical development is astonishingly complete. From the very beginning of his work he showed interest in ethical questions, but he felt that before ha can answer them he needed to deal with several issues in the philosophy of language and action. He thought that a good theory of action (praxiology) constituted a necessar...