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Article Dans Une Revue BioSystems Année : 2008

Ascriptional and "genuine" autonomy

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Knowing that human judgment can be fallible, we propose to distinguish the subjective ascription of a property, such as autonomy, from the genuine fact that an entity is characterised by a certain property, i.e., it is autonomous. In this paper, we take a closer look at this distinction and what it is grounded on, taking a constructivist stance that sees the scientist as an observing subject. We arrive at a notion of fortified ascription, in which knowledge and scientific study of generative mechanisms play an important role, and look at some models of autonomy in the light of this distinction.

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hal-00351778 , version 1 (11-01-2009)

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M. Rohde, J. Stewart. Ascriptional and "genuine" autonomy. BioSystems, 2008, 91 (2), pp.424-433. ⟨10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.05.017⟩. ⟨hal-00351778⟩
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