Papers by Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014
Ethik in Der Medizin, Nov 16, 2013
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Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, Jun 19, 2021
Do biomedical interventions raise special moral concerns? A rising number of prominent authors cl... more Do biomedical interventions raise special moral concerns? A rising number of prominent authors claim that at least in the case of biomedical enhancement they do not. Treating biomedical enhancements different from non-biomedical ones, they claim, amounts to unjustified biomedical exceptionalism. This article vindicates the familiar thesis that biomedical enhancement raises specific concerns. Taking a close look at the argumentative strategy against biomedical exceptionalism and provides counterexamples showing that the biomedical mode of interventions raises concerns not relevant otherwise. In particular, biomedical interventions throughout raise concerns of informed consent, which only rarely turn up in comparable non-biomedical interventions.
Neuroethics
Brain age prediction is a relatively new tool in neuro-medicine and the neurosciences. In researc... more Brain age prediction is a relatively new tool in neuro-medicine and the neurosciences. In research and clinical practice, it finds multiple use as a marker for biological age, for general health status of the brain and as an indicator for several brain-based disorders. Its utility in all these tasks depends on detecting outliers and thus failing to correctly predict chronological age. The indicative value of brain age prediction is generated by the gap between a brain’s chronological age and the predicted age, the brain age gap (BAG). This article shows how the clinical and research use of brain age prediction tacitly pathologizes the states that it is sensitive to. It will be argued that the tacit character of this transformation conceals the need for its explicit justification.
Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Oct 1, 2019
Although dominated by consequentialist and deontological thinking, the debate about human enhance... more Although dominated by consequentialist and deontological thinking, the debate about human enhancement has been enriched by several arguments from virtue theory and from virtue ethics. This article provides an overview of the virtue ethical arguments in the debate and identifies several topics in the ethics of human enhancement where the argumentative resources of virtue ethics have not yet been sufficiently considered.
Brill | mentis eBooks, Aug 6, 2021
Philosophie des Geistes und Neurowissenschaften sind seit historischen Zeiten in engem Austausch ... more Philosophie des Geistes und Neurowissenschaften sind seit historischen Zeiten in engem Austausch begriffen. Gegenseitige Beeinflussung ist die Norm in diesem Verhältnis, keine Besonderheit der Dekade des Gehirns und ihrer Nachfolgezeit. Gegenwärtig fördert der enge Kontakt zu den Neurowissenschaften eine Form mechanistischen und wissenschaftstheoretischen Denkens in der Philosophie des Geistes. Zudem stoßen konkrete Entwicklungen in den Neurowissenschaften wie predictive processing, neural reuse und situated cognition Hypothesen neue Theorieentwicklungen in der Philosophie des Geistes an. Von beiden Entwicklungen – abstrakten wie konkreten – profitiert, wenn auch mit erheblicher zeitlicher Verzögerung, die Translation in medizinische Diagnose und Therapieansätze
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2016
J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2019
Neuroenhancement concerns the improvement of a person’s mental properties, abilities, and perform... more Neuroenhancement concerns the improvement of a person’s mental properties, abilities, and performance. The various techniques of neuroenhancement offer new opportunities of such improvement, but also come with substantive perils. Neuroenhancement thus involves significant normative challenges for individual persons as well as for society as a whole. This expert report provides a concise overview of the contemporary debate on neuroenhancement. It discusses the definition, techniques and targets of neuroenhancement and examines arguments for and against it at the level of individual persons, social interaction, and social policy.
Ethik in Der Medizin, Jun 1, 2005
Zusammenfassung Die Frage nach der Gerechtigkeit im Gesundheitswesen wird aus der Perspektive ein... more Zusammenfassung Die Frage nach der Gerechtigkeit im Gesundheitswesen wird aus der Perspektive einer allgemeinen Theorie der Gerechtigkeit betrachtet. Diese Theorie ist ein Befähigungsansatz, der zwischen 1) der Grundversorgung aller Bürger mit ...
Brill | mentis eBooks, Nov 25, 2022
Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Oct 1, 2018
Enhancement, the improvement of mental capacities with psychoactive substances and technologies h... more Enhancement, the improvement of mental capacities with psychoactive substances and technologies has stimulated one of the largest debates in contemporary bioethics. Surprisingly few participants in this debate take note of the tendentious legal status of psychoactive pharmaceuticals as the primary means of enhancement.Enhancement technologies and substances have measurable effects on specific measurable cognitive functions. A major issue of contention in the debate is how to evaluate these effects, i. e. which theory of value to use. It is contested whether the pleasures and achievements resulting from the use of enhancement can be counted as such or can be ignored or devaluate by calling them fraudulent or inauthentic.The alleged and real benefits of enhancement are not expected to be evenly distributed, nor is it always clear whether enhancement is a zero-sum game or has benefits even for the non-users. This results in a complex structure of risks and benefits for individuals and groups, which needs to be broken down in detail.
#philosophieorientiert, 2022
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Papers by Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs
But, as a recent article about privacy by design states “Given the size and characteristics of these databases there are no technical mechanisms that guarantee that they will not leak, or be subject to function creep or be simply abused by those who have authority and access to the data. Providing a sense of control through technical mechanisms like access control and transparency are only extensions of the “trust us, we do no evil” propositions of some organizations“ (Gürses et al. 2011).
Now three issues should in my opinion be considered: What is the probability of such data being abused? What possible harm might the abuse of such data do? What can reasonably be done about that?
Several authors explicitly claim, that individuals have neither any obligation to participate in climate mitigation or prevention, nor need they have much of a say or role in the structure of our climate regimes and distributive systems beyond questions of acceptance."
Leitende Fragestellungen des Buches sind: Welche Funktionen und Stellungen nimmt der Begriff des ›Willens‹ – besonders in der Philosophie, Psychologie und Neurowissenschaften – ein und wie verhalten sich diese Funktionen zur Alltagssprache in den lebensweltlichen Kontexten?
Den Kern der Aufmerksamkeit bilden zum einen Fragen der theoretischen Philosophie, namentlich Begriff und Kriterien der Wahrheit, und wie diese in den Einzelwissenschaften zu verorten sind. Diesen Erwägungen schließen sich solche der praktischen Philosophie an, darunter der Wahrheitsanspruch ethischer Theoriebildung oder die Wirkung, die die vermeintliche Erkenntnishoheit der Naturwissenschaften in der politischen Philosophie zeitigt. Ergänzt werden jene Betrachtungen durch philosophiehistorische Untersuchungen der Entwicklung einschlägiger philosophischer Begriffe wie ‚Vernunft‛, oder ‚Abbild‛.
Mit Beiträgen von
Werner Becker,
Richard Breun,
Alex Burri,
Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs,
Carsten Held,
Bernulf Kanitscheider,
Klaus-Michael Kodalle,
Odo Marquard,
Helmuth Meinhardt,
Heinrich Niehues Pröbsting,
Peter Probst,
Gerhard Vollmer,
Franz Josef Wetz.