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Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences

The experience we want to report on and about which we are going to start thinking is not entirel... more The experience we want to report on and about which we are going to start thinking is not entirely new. It has already taken place in several hospitals that deal with medical and surgical resuscitation; many reports of it have been published in medical literature that echoes voices of patients who did fairly well. Psychiatry had already used notebooks for patients, encouraging each of them to keep a diary of which only the author himself and perhaps his doctor and some caregivers had knowledge. But here is what immediately makes the difference between the structure that is fit for the notebooks when they are implemented by Benoît Misset and the structure used in psychiatry. Unlike what happens most of the time in psychiatry, a patient in intensive care is not able to keep a diary. Everything happens as if various characters, who use the pronouns I, we, you, thou, they, she or he, kept the diary for the patient or for themselves, addressing the patient and talking about him. The voic...

This work attends to explain the conditions of Spinoza's theory of affective imitation (Ethic... more This work attends to explain the conditions of Spinoza's theory of affective imitation (Ethics, III, 27). Behaviour and theory of knowledge are taken into account as dimensions of the communication problem. This first part (I) focuses on the cartesian account of behaviour, as far as corporel causality is concerned. It suggests an interpretation of the few lines, in L'Homme, devoted to the communication of corporal dispositions between similar machines. The second part sets the light on the propositions that explain or follow mimetic behaviour whose first interest lies on the lack of consciousness. Spinoza's own conception -opposite to Descartes'- of sensation, imagination and feeling is discussed here (II-III), so that the demonstration of Proposition III, 27 becomes possible (IV). Our hypothesis is that Spinoza's way implies an expressive account of perception. In the last chapter (V), relations between rational and mimetic behavior are at stake.

Nouvelles De La Republique Des Lettres, 1993

L'A. etudie le role schematique des fictions chez Bentham et la theorie du langage qui y est ... more L'A. etudie le role schematique des fictions chez Bentham et la theorie du langage qui y est reliee, en particulier en reference au probleme de la generalite des termes. L'A. montre que par sa theorie, Bentham apporte une reponse utilitariste coherente aux questions du nominalisme et des rapports entre la verite et l'action individuelle

International audienceCe volume, qui réunit les contributions du philosophe, de l’éthologue, du j... more International audienceCe volume, qui réunit les contributions du philosophe, de l’éthologue, du juriste, du spécialiste de l’éducation, du géographe et du médecin, a pour finalité de définir le soin dans ce qu’il a de spécifique en l’opposant à des activités qui lui sont voisines mais qui relèvent plutôt de l’aide. Il s’efforce de démêler les confusions introduites par l’existence en anglais de deux mots pour parler du soin : care et cure

Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences, 2020

There exists in ethics many values that seem to enjoy full positivity, which is expressed by name... more There exists in ethics many values that seem to enjoy full positivity, which is expressed by names, but which in reality hide either asymmetries or false balances between the very opposed values they pretend to reconcile, while this pretense turns out fruitless.

Advances in Library and Information Science, 2019

Psychiatric medicine poses specific ethical problems relating to the particularity of the illness... more Psychiatric medicine poses specific ethical problems relating to the particularity of the illnesses and of the patients. It intends to cure and to the nature of the treatments it prescribes. Its differences with the other branches of medicine have been highlighted for a long time. The psychiatric patient worries his family circle to a greater extent and in different ways than any other patient. This chapter explores the ethics of risk in psychiatry.

L’une des questions ouvertes par la loi Leonetti en 2005 est celle de savoir si une decision medi... more L’une des questions ouvertes par la loi Leonetti en 2005 est celle de savoir si une decision medicale peut etre collective, comme il l’est desormais conseille de facon pressante. Son presuppose est que, parce qu’une decision est collective, elle a plus de chances d’etre correcte et juste que si elle est le fait d’un individu qui decide seul. Il n’est pas impossible que la pression democratique ait impose cette facon de penser au corps medical. Mais a quelles conditions une decision prise en commun ne laisse pas de regrets a ceux qui la prennent, apres avoir delibere, et a celle ou celui qui dirige un service ? Cette question, qui se pose de facon nouvelle au personnel medical, doit etre repensee de fond en comble ; ce qui ne veut pas dire qu’elle n’ait pas ete affrontee par des auteurs du passe qui, depuis l’Antiquite avec Aristote, en passant par le Moyen Âge, avec saint Thomas d’Aquin (qui nous a appris a distinguer le choix et l’election), et les philosophes du xviiie siecle – Ro...

Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2016

Archives De Philosophie, Apr 20, 2015

Utilitarianism has often been identified as what it claimed to be: a calculation of pleasures and... more Utilitarianism has often been identified as what it claimed to be: a calculation of pleasures and pains. But it has rarely been asked what we should understand by calculation in the work of Bentham, who does not go beyond the requisites, even if he reproaches his adversaries for being unable to carry out such a calculation. Is it a matter of using differential and integral calculus to add, subtract, multiply, and divide pleasures and pains? Or of evaluating them using a calculus of probability? Bentham seems to have provided, in terms more literary than mathematical, a schematism constitutive of the common ways to designate pleasures and pains that sciences such as economics, psychophysics and psychophysiology, and game theory began to use in the nineteenth century, and would do so again later.

Anales De La Catedra Francisco Suarez, 2014

In the general frame of an inquiry concerning Lacan and mathematics, the author is interested in ... more In the general frame of an inquiry concerning Lacan and mathematics, the author is interested in the treatment of the probabilities, the theory and decision, all topics that give way to an interpretation of Pascal’s calculus of partition and, in its wake, of the famous argument of betting. Starting from a critical examination of Kant’s transcendental aesthetics, that Lacan propounds to the philosophers to replace by logical space and time of the theory of game (as substitute), the psychoanalyst attempts to prove that Pascal is probably the forefather of the theory of game and decision. What is disturbing in this affair is that a number of interpretations of the “geometer of chance <hasard>”, which will happen in the 1970s, are in debt, perhaps unconsciously, surely in a secrete way, to the Lacanian interpretation that appeared, ten years before. Résumé Dans le cadre général d’une recherche sur Lacan et les mathématiques, l’auteur s’intéresse ici au sort que Lacan réserve aux p...

Eastern-European Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, 2018

In France, blood transfusion gives rise to debates only when a scandal bursts out, as we have kno... more In France, blood transfusion gives rise to debates only when a scandal bursts out, as we have known in the 1980’s and 1990’s with the « affaire du sang contamine ».Otherwise, once a number of administrative and prophylactic precautions have been taken, transfusion is not further discussed in ethical terms, as if questions related to transfusion were solved better than in any other domain of care ethics. The speeches take on a seemingly axiomatic character: it is well understood that the donation of blood must be anonymous; that it must be gratuitous; that selling one’s blood is contrary -or would be contrary- to ethics; and so is and would be knowing the person to whom it is given while the recipient knows his donor. What is surprising is that these axioms seem self-evident; and what is even more surprising is that those who are supposed exceeding the level of common opinion hold fewer seminars on issues related to blood transfusion than on other issues of medical ethics, yet strong...

If everyone agrees that intimacy is not worthless in medical ethics, provided that it is defined ... more If everyone agrees that intimacy is not worthless in medical ethics, provided that it is defined and not left unspecified in contact with other categories that have too much tendency to annex it, it encounters on its way a major obstacle that seems to threaten, not to say condemn: the robotization of medicine, which follows at least two roads: that, on the one hand, the refinement and the growing safety of operative acts; that, on the other hand, of the coupling or the hybridization with more and more sophisticated machines which, not only, bring an aid to the patient who could not have lived without them, but which are also likely to bring improvements to the performance of humans, sick or not, in extremely varied fields. The first case is part of a classical ethical configuration, except that trust in individuals is transformed into the reliability of the machines on which it counts; the second, it makes us more clearly out of a classic framework and it could give rise, because of...

Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences

The experience we want to report on and about which we are going to start thinking is not entirel... more The experience we want to report on and about which we are going to start thinking is not entirely new. It has already taken place in several hospitals that deal with medical and surgical resuscitation; many reports of it have been published in medical literature that echoes voices of patients who did fairly well. Psychiatry had already used notebooks for patients, encouraging each of them to keep a diary of which only the author himself and perhaps his doctor and some caregivers had knowledge. But here is what immediately makes the difference between the structure that is fit for the notebooks when they are implemented by Benoît Misset and the structure used in psychiatry. Unlike what happens most of the time in psychiatry, a patient in intensive care is not able to keep a diary. Everything happens as if various characters, who use the pronouns I, we, you, thou, they, she or he, kept the diary for the patient or for themselves, addressing the patient and talking about him. The voic...

This work attends to explain the conditions of Spinoza's theory of affective imitation (Ethic... more This work attends to explain the conditions of Spinoza's theory of affective imitation (Ethics, III, 27). Behaviour and theory of knowledge are taken into account as dimensions of the communication problem. This first part (I) focuses on the cartesian account of behaviour, as far as corporel causality is concerned. It suggests an interpretation of the few lines, in L'Homme, devoted to the communication of corporal dispositions between similar machines. The second part sets the light on the propositions that explain or follow mimetic behaviour whose first interest lies on the lack of consciousness. Spinoza's own conception -opposite to Descartes'- of sensation, imagination and feeling is discussed here (II-III), so that the demonstration of Proposition III, 27 becomes possible (IV). Our hypothesis is that Spinoza's way implies an expressive account of perception. In the last chapter (V), relations between rational and mimetic behavior are at stake.

Nouvelles De La Republique Des Lettres, 1993

L'A. etudie le role schematique des fictions chez Bentham et la theorie du langage qui y est ... more L'A. etudie le role schematique des fictions chez Bentham et la theorie du langage qui y est reliee, en particulier en reference au probleme de la generalite des termes. L'A. montre que par sa theorie, Bentham apporte une reponse utilitariste coherente aux questions du nominalisme et des rapports entre la verite et l'action individuelle

International audienceCe volume, qui réunit les contributions du philosophe, de l’éthologue, du j... more International audienceCe volume, qui réunit les contributions du philosophe, de l’éthologue, du juriste, du spécialiste de l’éducation, du géographe et du médecin, a pour finalité de définir le soin dans ce qu’il a de spécifique en l’opposant à des activités qui lui sont voisines mais qui relèvent plutôt de l’aide. Il s’efforce de démêler les confusions introduites par l’existence en anglais de deux mots pour parler du soin : care et cure

Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Sciences, 2020

There exists in ethics many values that seem to enjoy full positivity, which is expressed by name... more There exists in ethics many values that seem to enjoy full positivity, which is expressed by names, but which in reality hide either asymmetries or false balances between the very opposed values they pretend to reconcile, while this pretense turns out fruitless.

Advances in Library and Information Science, 2019

Psychiatric medicine poses specific ethical problems relating to the particularity of the illness... more Psychiatric medicine poses specific ethical problems relating to the particularity of the illnesses and of the patients. It intends to cure and to the nature of the treatments it prescribes. Its differences with the other branches of medicine have been highlighted for a long time. The psychiatric patient worries his family circle to a greater extent and in different ways than any other patient. This chapter explores the ethics of risk in psychiatry.

L’une des questions ouvertes par la loi Leonetti en 2005 est celle de savoir si une decision medi... more L’une des questions ouvertes par la loi Leonetti en 2005 est celle de savoir si une decision medicale peut etre collective, comme il l’est desormais conseille de facon pressante. Son presuppose est que, parce qu’une decision est collective, elle a plus de chances d’etre correcte et juste que si elle est le fait d’un individu qui decide seul. Il n’est pas impossible que la pression democratique ait impose cette facon de penser au corps medical. Mais a quelles conditions une decision prise en commun ne laisse pas de regrets a ceux qui la prennent, apres avoir delibere, et a celle ou celui qui dirige un service ? Cette question, qui se pose de facon nouvelle au personnel medical, doit etre repensee de fond en comble ; ce qui ne veut pas dire qu’elle n’ait pas ete affrontee par des auteurs du passe qui, depuis l’Antiquite avec Aristote, en passant par le Moyen Âge, avec saint Thomas d’Aquin (qui nous a appris a distinguer le choix et l’election), et les philosophes du xviiie siecle – Ro...

Revista Romaneasca pentru Educatie Multidimensionala, 2016

Archives De Philosophie, Apr 20, 2015

Utilitarianism has often been identified as what it claimed to be: a calculation of pleasures and... more Utilitarianism has often been identified as what it claimed to be: a calculation of pleasures and pains. But it has rarely been asked what we should understand by calculation in the work of Bentham, who does not go beyond the requisites, even if he reproaches his adversaries for being unable to carry out such a calculation. Is it a matter of using differential and integral calculus to add, subtract, multiply, and divide pleasures and pains? Or of evaluating them using a calculus of probability? Bentham seems to have provided, in terms more literary than mathematical, a schematism constitutive of the common ways to designate pleasures and pains that sciences such as economics, psychophysics and psychophysiology, and game theory began to use in the nineteenth century, and would do so again later.

Anales De La Catedra Francisco Suarez, 2014

In the general frame of an inquiry concerning Lacan and mathematics, the author is interested in ... more In the general frame of an inquiry concerning Lacan and mathematics, the author is interested in the treatment of the probabilities, the theory and decision, all topics that give way to an interpretation of Pascal’s calculus of partition and, in its wake, of the famous argument of betting. Starting from a critical examination of Kant’s transcendental aesthetics, that Lacan propounds to the philosophers to replace by logical space and time of the theory of game (as substitute), the psychoanalyst attempts to prove that Pascal is probably the forefather of the theory of game and decision. What is disturbing in this affair is that a number of interpretations of the “geometer of chance <hasard>”, which will happen in the 1970s, are in debt, perhaps unconsciously, surely in a secrete way, to the Lacanian interpretation that appeared, ten years before. Résumé Dans le cadre général d’une recherche sur Lacan et les mathématiques, l’auteur s’intéresse ici au sort que Lacan réserve aux p...

Eastern-European Journal of Medical Humanities and Bioethics, 2018

In France, blood transfusion gives rise to debates only when a scandal bursts out, as we have kno... more In France, blood transfusion gives rise to debates only when a scandal bursts out, as we have known in the 1980’s and 1990’s with the « affaire du sang contamine ».Otherwise, once a number of administrative and prophylactic precautions have been taken, transfusion is not further discussed in ethical terms, as if questions related to transfusion were solved better than in any other domain of care ethics. The speeches take on a seemingly axiomatic character: it is well understood that the donation of blood must be anonymous; that it must be gratuitous; that selling one’s blood is contrary -or would be contrary- to ethics; and so is and would be knowing the person to whom it is given while the recipient knows his donor. What is surprising is that these axioms seem self-evident; and what is even more surprising is that those who are supposed exceeding the level of common opinion hold fewer seminars on issues related to blood transfusion than on other issues of medical ethics, yet strong...

If everyone agrees that intimacy is not worthless in medical ethics, provided that it is defined ... more If everyone agrees that intimacy is not worthless in medical ethics, provided that it is defined and not left unspecified in contact with other categories that have too much tendency to annex it, it encounters on its way a major obstacle that seems to threaten, not to say condemn: the robotization of medicine, which follows at least two roads: that, on the one hand, the refinement and the growing safety of operative acts; that, on the other hand, of the coupling or the hybridization with more and more sophisticated machines which, not only, bring an aid to the patient who could not have lived without them, but which are also likely to bring improvements to the performance of humans, sick or not, in extremely varied fields. The first case is part of a classical ethical configuration, except that trust in individuals is transformed into the reliability of the machines on which it counts; the second, it makes us more clearly out of a classic framework and it could give rise, because of...

À bien des égards, la pratique médicale commence par et dans la mise en crise de ce sujet parfait... more À bien des égards, la pratique médicale commence par et dans la mise en crise de ce sujet parfaitement autonome dont elle ne cesse pour autant de requérir en même temps, et peut-être plus que jamais, le consentement libre et éclairé. En lieu et place de ce sujet introuvable se présente plutôt une subjectivité souffrant d'un ou de plusieurs symptômes, et qui par là-même s'en trouve affectée. Au coeur du paradoxe de cette subjectivité-patiente se trouve ainsi le symptôme, ce fait clinique qui est l'objet premier de l'attention médicale puisque toute étiologie part de lui, mais qui n'en demeure pas moins un vécu irréductiblement subjectif. Par lui, quelque chose de la subjectivité du patient se donne à entendre, a fortiori dans les cliniques psychiatrique et psychanalytique. Cet ouvrage collectif se propose d'interroger le statut paradoxal du symptôme en le réinscrivant d'emblée dans cette ambivalence par laquelle s'y nouent pour le meilleur et pour le pire la nécessité subjective et la nécessité médicale. Il réunit ainsi un ensemble de contributions de psychologues, psychiatres, psychanalystes, philosophes et épistémologues...