Bio/medical technologies
Samantha Copeland works in the philosophy of medicine and bioethics, with a focus on the relationship between epistemology, philosophy of science and ethics, in clinical and other medical research and the development of medical technologies (from the generation of research questions to applications of design). Samantha Copeland and Sabine Roeser are co-PIs on Converging Ethics for Converging Technologies, with a project team that includes researchers in medical ethics from Erasmus Medical Center and a focus on the ethics of emerging medical technologies
Rocca, E., Copeland, S., & Edwards, I. R. (2019). Pharmacovigilance as scientific discovery: an argument for trans-disciplinarity. Drug safety, 42(10), 1115-1124.
Guédon, A.C.P., S.L. Spruit, L.S.G.L. Wauben, M. Van der Elst, N. Doorn, J. Dankelman, J.J. Van den Dobbelsteen and J. Klein (2017). ‘A delicate balance: adaptive support to improve patient safety’. BMJ Innovations 3(1): 1-6, DOI: 10.1136/bmjinnov-2016-000150
Kudina, O. & de Boer, B. (2021). Co-designing diagnosis: towards a responsible integration of Machine Learning decision-support systems in medical diagnostics. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice.
Filippo Santoni de Sio has extensively published on the ethics of healthcare robots, digital twins in healthcare, and pharmacological cognitive enhancement.
Bruynseels K, Santoni de Sio F. and Van den Hoven J. 2018 Digital Twins in Health Care: Ethical Implications of an Emerging Engineering Paradigm. Frontiers in Genetics, 13 February 2018. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2018.00031
Santoni de Sio, F., Van Wynsberghe, A. 2016. When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach, Science and Engineering Ethics 22: 1745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-015-9715-4
Santoni de Sio, F., Faber, N., Savulescu, J., and Vincent, N. A. 2016. Why Less Praise for Enhanced Performance? Beyond responsibility-shifting, authenticity, and cheating toward a nature-of-activities approach, F. Jotterand and V. Dubljevic (eds), Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives, Oxford University Press.
Maslen, H., Santoni de Sio, F., Faber, N. 2015. With Cognitive Enhancement Comes Great Responsibility?, in B.J. Koops et al. (eds), Responsible Innovation, Volume 2, Dordrecht: Springer
Santoni de Sio, F., Faulmüller, N., Vincent, N.A, 2014. How cognitive enhancement can change our duties, Frontiers in System Neuroscience, 8.
Santoni de Sio, F., Robichaud, P., Vincent, N.A., 2014. Who Should Enhance? Conceptual and normative dimensions of cognitive enhancement, Humana.mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 26, 179-197. [ISI-listed journal]
In the context of a research project on brain-computer interfaces, Steffen Steinert, together with co-authors, investigated the ethical implications of affective brain-computer interfaces. Steffen and his collaborators also explored the challenges of brain computer interfaces for accounts of agency and for autonomy.
• Steinert, S., & Friedrich, O. (2020). Wired Emotions: Ethical Issues of Affective Brain–Computer Interfaces. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26(1), 351–367. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-019-00087-2
• Steinert, S., Bublitz, C., Jox, R., & Friedrich, O. (2019). Doing Things with Thoughts: Brain-Computer Interfaces and Disembodied Agency. Philosophy & Technology, 32(3), 457–482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-018-0308-4
• Friedrich, O., Racine, E., Steinert, S., Pömsl, J., & Jox, R. J. (2021). An Analysis of the Impact of Brain-Computer Interfaces on Autonomy. Neuroethics, 14(1), 17–29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12152-018-9364-9
Janna van Grunsven is involved in several research collaborations and has published several articles focusing on mental health and disability and the manner in which digital technologies can support or undermine inclusive spaces of communication and interaction. In 2022, Janna received a NWO Veni grant for the project “Mattering Minds: Understanding the Ethical Lives of Technologically Embedded Beings with 4E" to examine to how technology shapes our experience of the expressive bodily lives of others as beings who matter.
Veni Grant for the project “Mattering Minds: Understanding the Ethical Lives of Technologically Embedded Beings with 4E”
Van Grunsven, J & S. Roeser (2021) AAC Technology, Autism, and the Empathic Turn, Social Epistemology, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2021.1897189
Van Grunsven, J. (2020) “Perceptual Breakdown during a Global Pandemic: Introducing Phenomenological Insights for Digital Mental Health Purposes,” Ethics and Information Technology, published online Sept. 1st 2020, doi.org/10.1007/s10676-020-09554-y