Normothermic Regional Perfusion, the Dead Donor Rule, and the Metaphysics of Causation
Over the last decade, a novel method of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) known as normothermic regional perfusion (NRP) has come into widespread...
Philosophy, Technology, and Mortality
This APA Blog series has broadly explored philosophy and technology with a throughline on the influence of technology and AI on well-being. This month’s post...
Homo HURAQUS 2050 and the Disruptive Techno-Convergence Era: How Humanoid Robotics, AI, Quantum and Synthetic...
Human civilization is entering a period of unprecedented technological acceleration. This convergence is pushing humanity toward what I define as civilizational frontier risks: systemic,...
Environmental Bioethics and the Problem of Interdependence
I find myself bothered by the relationship between bioethics and public health ethics. Is it that the former focuses on individuals and the latter...
The Moral Life of Organs in an Age of Technological Innovation
Introduction
In medicine, technology can refer to anything from antibiotics like penicillin used to treat everyday infections and antivirals that suppress HIV, to dialysis circuits...
What is Clinical Medicine? What Should it Be?
Much attention has recently been given to discussing the effects, potential and actual, of artificial intelligence on clinical medicine. Many, like Sparrow & Hatherley,...
Synthetic Disenchantment
We are only seeking man.
We have no need of other worlds.
We need mirrors.
–Stanisław Lem, Solaris
Machines, artificial intelligences (AI), can now produce creative works such...
From Paternalism to Suicide Prevention: No Simple Path
This entry is based on my “Paternalism and the Ethics of Suicide Prevention,” forthcoming in M. Cholbi and P. Stellino, eds., Oxford Handbook of...
Why There Is Something Instead of Nothing May Be All About Perspective
Make an “O” shape with your thumb and forefinger and contemplate it. It represents both a number and a concept: zero, nothing. In between...
Criminalizing Mental Illness: Cops as Clinicians and Incarceration as Health Care in the United...
Consider the case of Harvey. Harvey experiences paranoid delusions, and one evening, he can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching him from his...