Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs
Biographic Data
| ID | 9030269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jan-Hendrik Heinrichs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jan-Hendrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Heinrichs |
| SIGNATURE | HEINRICHS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0560-8483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Agent regret and the moral responsibility for the misuse of research results
An increasing number of research fields must expect that their projects will be classified as susceptible to misuse or otherwise security relevant, even if the reasons or criteria for this classification have not yet been uniformly developed. Research institutions will commonly distribute the obligation to predict and prevent misuse across multiple members and structures including ethics committees. However, cases of misuse occur even in spite of…
Merely virtual virtue? The empathy machine hypothesis and the promise of virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) induces a radical psychological reorientation. Yet descriptions of this reorientation are often steeped in theoretically misleading metaphors. We offer a more measured account, grounded in both philosophy and cognitive psychology, and use it to assess the claim that VR promotes moral learning by simulating another’s perspective. This hypothesis depends on the assumption that avatar use produces experiences sufficiently simila…
Hammer or Measuring Tape? Artificial Intelligence and Justice in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool for several healthcare tasks. AI tools are suited to optimize predictive models in medicine. Ethical debates about AI’s extension of the predictive power of medical models suggest a need to adapt core principles of medical ethics. This article demonstrates that a popular interpretation of the principle of justice in healthcare needs amendment given the effect of AI on decision-making. The procedural…
Can we read minds by imaging brains
Will brain imaging technology soon enable neuroscientists to read minds? We cannot answer this question without some understanding of the state of the art in neuroimaging. But neither can we answer this question without some understanding of the concept invoked by the term “mind reading.” This article is an attempt to develop such understanding. Our analysis proceeds in two stages. In the first stage, we provide a categorical explication of mind …
Virtual action
In the debate about actions in virtual environments two interdependent types of question have been pondered: What is a person doing who acts in a virtual environment? Second, can virtual actions be evaluated morally? These questions have been discussed using examples from morally dubious computer games, which seem to revel in atrocities. The examples were introduced using the terminology of “virtual murder” “virtual rape” and “virtual pedophilia”…
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism
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 again…
Why Digital Assistants Need Your Information to Support Your Autonomy
This article investigates how human life is conceptualized in the design and use of digital assistants and how this conceptualization feeds back into the life really lived. It suggests that a specific way of conceptualizing human life — namely as a set of tasks to be optimized — is responsible for the much-criticized information hunger of these digital assistants. The data collection of digital assistants raises not just several issues of privacy…
Neuroethik
Das Buch führt umfassend in die noch junge Disziplin der Neuroethik ein und bringt dabei Ethik-Diskussionen innerhalb und außerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses zusammen. Der Fokus liegt auf den moralischen Implikationen der mechanischen Veränderung des menschlichen Geistes.
Neuroethik
Capabilities
Der Begriff der Capabilities bezeichnet im ersten Zugriff eine Maßeinheit. Eine Maßeinheit, deren Verwendung es erlauben soll, Bewertungen sozialer Zustände und Arrangements auf die Basis einer aussagekräftigen Datenbasis zu stellen. Ihr Erfinder Amartya Sen hatte in erster Linie ökonomische und verteilungspolitische Fragestellungen als den Kontext auserkoren, in dem sein neues Maß die Informationsbasis von Erklärungen wie Entscheidungen bereiche…
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Capabilities
Der Begriff der Capabilities bezeichnet im ersten Zugriff eine Maßeinheit. Eine Maßeinheit, deren Verwendung es erlauben soll, Bewertungen sozialer Zustände und Arrangements auf die Basis einer aussagekräftigen Datenbasis zu stellen. Ihr Erfinder Amartya Sen hatte in erster Linie ökonomische und verteilungspolitische Fragestellungen als den Kontext auserkoren, in dem sein neues Maß die Informationsbasis von Erklärungen wie Entscheidungen bereiche…
Neuroethik
Das Buch führt umfassend in die noch junge Disziplin der Neuroethik ein und bringt dabei Ethik-Diskussionen innerhalb und außerhalb des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses zusammen. Der Fokus liegt auf den moralischen Implikationen der mechanischen Veränderung des menschlichen Geistes.
Neuroethik
Virtual action
In the debate about actions in virtual environments two interdependent types of question have been pondered: What is a person doing who acts in a virtual environment? Second, can virtual actions be evaluated morally? These questions have been discussed using examples from morally dubious computer games, which seem to revel in atrocities. The examples were introduced using the terminology of “virtual murder” “virtual rape” and “virtual pedophilia”…
The case for biotechnological exceptionalism
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 again…
Why Digital Assistants Need Your Information to Support Your Autonomy
This article investigates how human life is conceptualized in the design and use of digital assistants and how this conceptualization feeds back into the life really lived. It suggests that a specific way of conceptualizing human life — namely as a set of tasks to be optimized — is responsible for the much-criticized information hunger of these digital assistants. The data collection of digital assistants raises not just several issues of privacy…
Can we read minds by imaging brains
Will brain imaging technology soon enable neuroscientists to read minds? We cannot answer this question without some understanding of the state of the art in neuroimaging. But neither can we answer this question without some understanding of the concept invoked by the term “mind reading.” This article is an attempt to develop such understanding. Our analysis proceeds in two stages. In the first stage, we provide a categorical explication of mind …
Hammer or Measuring Tape? Artificial Intelligence and Justice in Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a powerful tool for several healthcare tasks. AI tools are suited to optimize predictive models in medicine. Ethical debates about AI’s extension of the predictive power of medical models suggest a need to adapt core principles of medical ethics. This article demonstrates that a popular interpretation of the principle of justice in healthcare needs amendment given the effect of AI on decision-making. The procedural…
Agent regret and the moral responsibility for the misuse of research results
An increasing number of research fields must expect that their projects will be classified as susceptible to misuse or otherwise security relevant, even if the reasons or criteria for this classification have not yet been uniformly developed. Research institutions will commonly distribute the obligation to predict and prevent misuse across multiple members and structures including ethics committees. However, cases of misuse occur even in spite of…
Merely virtual virtue? The empathy machine hypothesis and the promise of virtual reality
Virtual reality (VR) induces a radical psychological reorientation. Yet descriptions of this reorientation are often steeped in theoretically misleading metaphors. We offer a more measured account, grounded in both philosophy and cognitive psychology, and use it to assess the claim that VR promotes moral learning by simulating another’s perspective. This hypothesis depends on the assumption that avatar use produces experiences sufficiently simila…
Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive psychology (2 works)