A personalized patient preference predictor for substituted judgments in healthcare: technically feasible and ethically desirable

BD Earp, S Porsdam Mann, J Allen… - The American Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
When making substituted judgments for incapacitated patients, surrogates often struggle to
guess what the patient would want if they had capacity. Surrogates may also agonize over …

How pills undermine skills: Moralization of cognitive enhancement and causal selection

E Mihailov, BR López, F Cova… - Consciousness and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the promise to boost human potential and wellbeing, enhancement drugs face
recurring ethical scrutiny. The present studies examined attitudes toward cognitive …

The influence of using novel predictive technologies on judgments of stigma, empathy, and compassion among healthcare professionals

DZ Buchman, D Imahori, C Lo, K Hui, C Walker… - AJOB …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Our objective was to evaluate whether the description of a machine learning
(ML) app or brain imaging technology to predict the onset of schizophrenia or alcohol use …

Advancing methods in empirical bioethics: Bioxphi meets digital technologies

E Mihailov, IR Hannikainen, BD Earp - The American Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Smith, B., and W. Ceusters. 2010. Ontological realism: A methodology for coordinated
evolution of scientific ontologies. Applied Ontology 5 (3–4): 139–88. Smith, B., M. Ashburner …

How to use AI ethically for ethical decision-making

J Demaree-Cotton, BD Earp… - The American Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
What counts as a good decision depends on the domain. In diagnostic imaging, for instance,
a good decision involves diagnosing cancer if and only if the patient has cancer. In clinical …

Recognizing the diversity of cognitive enhancements

W Veit, BD Earp, N Faber, N Bostrom… - AJOB …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Empirical investigations into ordinary people's bioethical intuitions have steadily grown
throughout the last decades. A new study by Dinh, Humphries, and Chatterjee (2020) …

Strong bipartisan support for controlled psilocybin use as treatment or enhancement in a representative sample of US Americans: need for caution in public policy …

JD Sandbrink, K Johnson, M Gill, DB Yaden… - AJOB …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The psychedelic psilocybin has shown promise both as treatment for psychiatric conditions
and as a means of improving well-being in healthy individuals. In some jurisdictions (eg …

[HTML][HTML] A plea for an experimental philosophy of medicine

A De Block, K Hens - Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2021 - Springer
This special issue aims to explore and investigate a new subfield, namely experimental
philosophy of medicine. Whereas experimental philosophy is relatively new on the …

Socrates in the fMRI scanner: The neurofoundations of morality and the challenge to ethics

J Rueda - Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2021 - cambridge.org
The neuroscience of ethics is allegedly having a double impact. First, it is transforming the
view of human morality through the discovery of the neurobiological underpinnings that …

Advance Medical Decision-Making Differs Across First-and Third-Person Perspectives

J Toomey, J Lewis, IR Hannikainen… - AJOB Empirical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Background Advance healthcare decision-making presumes that a prior treatment
preference expressed with sufficient mental capacity (“T1 preference”) should trump a …