Publications
Edited volumes
Functions: From organisms to artefacts, edited by Jean Gayon, Armand de Ricqlès, and Antoine C. Dussault. Cham : Springer. [www]
Protéger l’environnement : De la science à l’action, edited by Ely Mermans and Antoine C. Dussault. Paris : Matériologiques. [www]
Articles and book chapters
2023, Antoine C. Dussault, “Do Clay Crystals and Rocks Have Functions? Selected Effects Functions, the Service Criterion, and the Twofold Character of the Function Concept” In Functions: From organisms to artefacts, edited by Jean Gayon, Armand de Ricqlès, and Antoine C. Dussault. Cham: Springer, 135-158.
2023, Antoine C. Dussault, “Fonctions écologiques, téléologie externe et relations bénéfiques inter-espèces (ou comment Aristote et Kant peuvent nous aider à comprendre les attributions de fonctions en écologie)” In Du concept de finalité organique : un instrument scientifique hérité de la métaphysique ? edited by Vincent Legeay and Victor Lefèvre. Paris : Matériologiques, p. 167-201.
2022, Antoine C. Dussault, “A clarification on the Boorse-Wakefield debate about health: Is the theoretical/therapeutic distinction dispensable?”, Analysis. Vol. 82, No. 4, p. 673–681 [www|pdf]
2022, Antoine C. Dussault, “La théorie biostatistique de la santé comme explication philosophique et l’objection des dysfonctions bénignes”, Philosophiques, Vol. 49, No 1, p. 9-35 (thematic issue “La philosophie de la médecine et de la psychiatrie : quels enjeux après le « tournant épistémologique?” edited by Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien and Pierre-Olivier Méthot). [www]
2022, Antoine C. Dussault, “Does facilitation require a revision of the hutchinsonian niche concept?”, Biology and philosophy (for the special issue “Niches in ecology and evolution”, edited by Rose Trappes, Behzad Nematipour, Ulrich Krohs). [www|pdf]
2022, Antoine C. Dussault, “Two Notions of Ecological Function”, Philosophy of Science. Vol. 89, No. 1, p. 171-179. [www|pdf]
2021, Antoine C. Dussault, “Trois faux dilemmes dans le débat sur la santé écosystémique” In Protéger l’environnement : De la science à l’action, edited by Ely Mermans and Antoine C. Dussault. Paris : Matériologiques. [www|pdf]
2021, Antoine C. Dussault, “The harmful-Dysfunction Account of Disorder, Individual versus Social Values, and the Interpersonal Variability of Harm Challenge”, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Vol. 24, p. 453–467. [www|pdf]
2020, Antoine C. Dussault, “Functionalism without Selectionism: Charles Elton’s ‘Functional’ Niche and the Concept of Ecological Function”, Biological Theory (special issue “Conceptualizing the Environment”). [www|pdf]
2020, Antoine C. Dussault, “Neither Superorganisms nor Mere Species Aggregates: Charles Elton’s Sociological Analogies and his Moderate Holism about Ecological Communities”, History and Philosophy of Life Sciences (special issue “Holism and Organicism in Ecology ca. 1900-1960”). [www|pdf]
2019, Malaterre, C., Antoine C Dussault, Sophia Rousseau-Mermans, et al. “Functional Diversity: An Epistemic Roadmap”, Bioscience. Vol. 69, No. 10, p. 800-811. [www]
2019, Antoine C. Dussault, “Functional Biodiversity and the Concept of Ecological Function” In From Assessing to Conserving biodiversity: Beyond the Species Approach, ed. Elena Casetta, Davide Vecchi, and Jorge Miguel Luz Marques da Silva. Dordrecht: Springer, p. 297-316. [www|pdf]
2019, Antoine C. Dussault, “Can Autopoiesis Ground a Response to the Selectionist Critique of Ecocentrism?” In New Directions in Canadian Environmental Philosophy, edited by Tyler DesRoches, Frank Jankunis, and Byron Williston. Montréal : McGill-Queen’s University Press, p. 56-82. [www|pdf]
2018, Antoine C. Dussault, “Welfare, Health, and the Moral Considerability of Non-Sentient Biological Entities”, Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum. Vol 13, no 1, 184–209. [www]
2018, Antoine C. Dussault, “Functional Ecology’s Non-Evolutionary Understanding of Ecological Function”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C. Vol. 70, p. 1-9. [www|pdf]
2017, Antoine C. Dussault et Frédéric Bouchard, “A Persistence Enhancing Propensity Account of Ecological Function for Understanding Ecosystem Evolution”, Synthese. Vol. 194, No. 4, p. 1115-1145. [www|pdf]
2016, Antoine C. Dussault, “Ecological Nature: A Non-Dualistic Concept for Rethinking Humankind’s place in the World”, Ethics and the Environment. Vol. 21, No. 1, p. 1-37. [www|pdf]
2015, Éric Desjardins, Zoë Lindo, Gillian Barker, Catherine Dieleman, Antoine C. Dussault, “Promoting Resilience”, The Quarterly Review of Biology. Vol. 90, No. 2 (June 2015), p. 147-165. [www]
2015, Antoine C. Dussault et Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, “Health, Homeostasis and the Situation-Specificity of Normality”, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. Vol. 36, no. 1, p. 61-81. [www|pdf]
2014, Antoine C. Dussault, “Fitting-attitude Analyses and the Relation between Final and Intrinsic Value”, Les Ateliers de l’éthique/The Ethics Forum.vol. 9, no. 2, p. 166-189. [www]
2014, Antoine C. Dussault et Élise Desaulniers, “Natural Food”, In Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, edited by Paul B. Thompson, David M. Kaplan, Springer.[www|pdf]
2013, Antoine C. Dussault, “In Search of Ecocentric Sentiments: Insights from the CAD Model in Moral Psychology”, Environmental Ethics. Vol. 35, no. 4, p. 419-437. [www|pdf]
2013, Antoine C. Dussault, “L’écocentrisme et ses appels normatifs à la nature : sont-ils nécessairement fallacieux ?” In Peut-on tirer une éthique de l’observation de la nature ?, Montréal, Les Cahiers d’Ithaque, p.43-76. [www]
2010, Antoine C. Dussault, “Le rôle de la science dans l’écocentrisme humien de Callicott”, Phares vol. 10, p. 103-123. [www]
2007, Antoine C. Dussault, “Putnam et la critique de la dichotomie fait/valeur”, Phares vol. 7, p. 126-150. [www]