%0 Journal Article %T Self-assembly, Self-organization, Nanotechnology and vitalism %+ Centre d'étude des techniques, des connaissances et des pratiques (CETCOPRA) %A Bensaude-Vincent, Bernadette %< avec comité de lecture %@ 1871-4757 %J NanoEthics %I Springer Verlag %V 3 %N 1 %P 31-43 %8 2009 %D 2009 %K hybridization %K bionanotechnology %K nature and artifact %K chemistry %K biomimetics %K nature and artefact %K cybernetics %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/History, Philosophy and Sociology of SciencesJournal articles %X Over the past decades, self-assembly has attracted a lot of research attention and transformed the relations between chemistry, materials science and biology. The paper explores the impact of the current interest in self-assembly techniques on the traditional debate over the nature of life. The first section describes three different research programs of self-assembly in nanotechnology in order to characterize their metaphysical implications: -1- Hybridization ( using the building blocks of living systems for making devices and machines) ; -2- Biomimetics (making artifacts mimicking nature); -3- Integration (a composite of the two previous strategies). The second section focused on the elusive boundary between selfassembly and self-organization tries to map out the various positions adopted by the promoters of self-assembly on the issue of vitalism? %G English %2 https://paris1.hal.science/hal-00937209/document %2 https://paris1.hal.science/hal-00937209/file/Seelf_assembly.pdf %L hal-00937209 %U https://paris1.hal.science/hal-00937209 %~ SHS %~ UNIV-PARIS1 %~ HIPHISCITECH %~ OMNIPHILO