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    Moral Progress.Philip Kitcher, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Rahel Jaeggi & Susan Neiman - 2021 - New York: Oxford University Press. Edited by Jan-Christoph Heilinger.
    "The overall aim of this book is to understand the character of moral progress, so that making moral progress may become more systematic and secure, less chancy and less bloody. Drawing on three historical examples - the abolition of chattel slavery, the expansion of opportunities for women, and the increasing acceptance of same-sex love - it asks how those changes were brought about, and seeks a methodology for streamlining the kinds of developments that occurred. Moral progress is conceived as pragmatic (...)
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    The Ethics of AI Ethics. A Constructive Critique.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2022 - Philosophy and Technology 35 (3):1-20.
    The paper presents an ethical analysis and constructive critique of the current practice of AI ethics. It identifies conceptual substantive and procedural challenges and it outlines strategies to address them. The strategies include countering the hype and understanding AI as ubiquitous infrastructure including neglected issues of ethics and justice such as structural background injustices into the scope of AI ethics and making the procedures and fora of AI ethics more inclusive and better informed with regard to philosophical ethics. These measures (...)
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    Cosmopolitan Responsibility: Global Injustice, Relational Equality, and Individual Agency.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2019 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The world we live in is unjust. Preventable deprivation and suffering shape the lives of many people, while others enjoy advantages and privileges aplenty. Cosmopolitan responsibility addresses the moral responsibilities of privileged individuals to take action in the face of global structural injustice. Individuals are called upon to complement institutional efforts to respond to global challenges, such as climate change, unfair global trade, or world poverty. Committed to an ideal of relational equality among all human beings, the book discusses the (...)
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    “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Doctor”: meaningful disagreements with AI in medical contexts.Hendrik Kempt, Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Saskia K. Nagel - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-8.
    This paper explores the role and resolution of disagreements between physicians and their diagnostic AI-based decision support systems. With an ever-growing number of applications for these independently operating diagnostic tools, it becomes less and less clear what a physician ought to do in case their diagnosis is in faultless conflict with the results of the DSS. The consequences of such uncertainty can ultimately lead to effects detrimental to the intended purpose of such machines, e.g. by shifting the burden of proof (...)
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    The Distributive Demands of Relational Egalitarianism.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2024 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 27 (4):619-634.
    The article outlines the distributive demands of relational equality in the form of a dynamic corridor of legitimate distributive inequality. It does so by complementing the already widely accepted sufficientarian floor with a limitarian ceiling, leading, in a first step, to a "corridor" of limited distributive inequality as a necessary condition for relational equality. This corridor alone, however, only provides necessary distributive conditions for relational equality and still allows for degrees of distributive inequality that would risk undermining egalitarian relations. Thus, (...)
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    Relative explainability and double standards in medical decision-making: Should medical AI be subjected to higher standards in medical decision-making than doctors?Saskia K. Nagel, Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Hendrik Kempt - 2022 - Ethics and Information Technology 24 (2):20.
    The increased presence of medical AI in clinical use raises the ethical question which standard of explainability is required for an acceptable and responsible implementation of AI-based applications in medical contexts. In this paper, we elaborate on the emerging debate surrounding the standards of explainability for medical AI. For this, we first distinguish several goods explainability is usually considered to contribute to the use of AI in general, and medical AI in specific. Second, we propose to understand the value of (...)
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    Human freedom and enhancement.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Katja Crone - 2014 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 17 (1):13-21.
    Ideas about freedom and related concepts like autonomy and self-determination play a prominent role in the moral debate about human enhancement interventions. However, there is not a single understanding of freedom available, and arguments referring to freedom are simultaneously used to argue both for and against enhancement interventions. This gives rise to misunderstandings and polemical arguments. The paper attempts to disentangle the different distinguishable concepts, classifies them and shows how they relate to one another in order to allow for a (...)
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    Loss and Damage, and Addressing Structural Injustice in the Climate Crisis.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Hendrik Kempt - forthcoming - Ethics, Policy and Environment.
    The paper offers a normative analysis of the new Loss & Damage Fund supporting vulnerable countries grappling with climate change-related harms. This fund is primarily financed by affluent nations, often identified as historical polluters. However, the perspective of relational egalitarianism highlights persistent structural injustices in the background of the fund. Addressing them necessitates conceptualizing the fund not merely as an act of cooperative solidarity but as compensation for the consequences of historical and ongoing structural injustices. Properly conceived, the fund manages (...)
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    Anthropologie Und Ethik des Enhancements.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2010 - De Gruyter.
    Advances in biotechnology have enabled interventions in the human organism that promise to increase physical and intellectual perform over the 'normal' or 'natural' boundary, as well as make possible targeted changes in human experience. The author investigates ethical debates surrounding these issues with a particular focus on arguments that employ a normative concept of a person in order to establish that particular interventions are permissible or impermissible. He develops an integrated model that 'maps' of the concept of a human being, (...)
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    Global justice and structural injustice: Theoretical and practical perspectives.Ryoa Chung, Lisa Eckenwiler, Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Verina Wild - 2021 - Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (2):158-161.
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  11. Human enhancement and perfection.Johann A. R. Roduit, Holger Baumann & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (10):647-650.
    Both, bioconservatives and bioliberals, should seek a discussion about ideas of human perfection, making explicit their underlying assumptions about what makes for a good human life. This is relevant, because these basic, and often implicit ideas, inform and influence judgements and choices about human enhancement interventions. Both neglect, and polemical but inconsistent use of the complex ideas of perfection are leading to confusion within the ethical debate about human enhancement interventions, that can be avoided by tackling the notion of perfection (...)
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    Three Injustices of Adaptation Finance - A Relational Egalitarian Analysis.Alexander Schulan & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2024 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 37 (3):1-18.
    This primarily diagnostic paper offers, from the perspective of relational egalitarianism, a normative analysis of three major injustices in the context of adaptation finance. Adaptation finance includes payments provided by the affluent countries of the Global North to low-income countries in the Global South, countries particularly exposed to the harms of climate change. Relational egalitarianism is the normative view that interactions between people and between institutions have to respect the equal moral status of every human being. The first injustice, from (...)
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  13. Ideas of Perfection and the Ethics of Human Enhancement.Johann A. R. Roduit, Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Holger Baumann - 2015 - Bioethics 29 (9):622-630.
    Whatever ethical stance one takes in the debate regarding the ethics of human enhancement, one or more reference points are required to assess its morality. Some have suggested looking at the bioethical notions of safety, justice, and/or autonomy to find such reference points. Others, arguing that those notions are limited with respect to assessing the morality of human enhancement, have turned to human nature, human authenticity, or human dignity as reference points, thereby introducing some perfectionist assumptions into the debate. In (...)
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    Individual responsibility and global structural injustice: Toward an ethos of cosmopolitan responsibility.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2021 - Journal of Social Philosophy 52 (2):185-200.
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    Evaluating human enhancements: the importance of ideals.Johann A. R. Roduit, Holger Baumann & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2014 - Monash Bioethics Review 32 (3-4):205-216.
    Is it necessary to have an ideal of perfection in mind to identify and evaluate true biotechnological human “enhancements”, or can one do without? To answer this question we suggest employing the distinction between ideal and non-ideal theory, found in the debate in political philosophy about theories of justice: the distinctive views about whether one needs an idea of a perfectly just society or not when it comes to assessing the current situation and recommending steps to increase justice. In this (...)
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    Cosmopolitanism Within Borders: A Normative Foundation for Health Care for Asylum Seekers?Verina Wild & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2013 - American Journal of Bioethics 13 (7):17-19.
    Asgary and Smith (2013) identify an important challenge: the difficult position of physicians caught between the obligation to treat every human being with the same professional rigor, and their feelings of responsibility toward the state and its judicial decisions on asylum requests. The authors show that in some cases this conflict leads to a tendency to "sacrifice their medical responsibilities". The authors' core demand is that health care workers should be independent of the state and judiciary systems, and thus prioritize (...)
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    Der Cyborg und die Frage nach dem Menschen. Kritische Überlegungen zum „homo arte emendatus et correctus“.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Oliver Müller - 2007 - Jahrbuch für Wissenschaft Und Ethik 12 (1):21-44.
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    Konflikte in der Ethik: Anmerkungen aus pragmatistischer Perspektive.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2016 - In Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.), Moral, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit. De Gruyter. pp. 145-160.
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    Bewusstsein als funktionales Element der natürlichen Welt.Katja Crone & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2008 - In Detlev Ganten, Volker Gerhardt & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Funktionen des Bewusstseins. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 3-20.
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    Lost in Phenospace. Questioning the Claims of Popular Neurophilosophy.Jan Slaby & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2013 - Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 1 (2):83-100.
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    Cyberhate against academics.Jason Branford, André Grahle, Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Dennis Kalde, Max Muth, Eva Maria Parisi, Paula-Irene Villa & Verina Wild - 2019 - In S. Karly Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.), Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. De Gruyter. pp. 205-226.
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    The Philosophy of Human Rights: Contemporary Controversies.Gerhard Ernst & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.) - 2011 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The notion of “human rights” is widely used in political and moral discussions. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an eminently practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. On the other hand it is unclear what exactly a human right is. Human rights lack a convincing conceptual foundation that would be able to compel the wrong-doer to accept human rights (...)
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    Schwerpunkt: Der Pragmatismus als Theorie globaler Gerechtigkeit.Michael G. Festl & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2016 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (5):738-739.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 64 Heft: 5 Seiten: 738-739.
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    Was ist der Mensch?Detlev Ganten, Volker Gerhardt, Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.) - 2008 - de Gruyter.
    Die Frage des Menschen nach sich selbst beschäftigt Menschen zu allen Zeiten und an allen Orten, so auch in der Gegenwart. Die hier versammelten Wissenschaftler, Politiker, Theologen, Journalisten und Schriftsteller aus verschiedenen kulturellen Traditionen geben in über fünfzig prägnanten Beiträgen ihre persönliche Antwort auf die aufgeworfene Frage. Was ist davon zu erwarten? Sicherlich keine abschließende Lösung der Frage. Doch ist ein schillerndes Spektrum aktueller Positionen zum menschlichen Selbstverständnis entstanden - zugleich kritisch und konstruktiv, pointiert und tiefgründig. Eingeleitet und kommentiert wird (...)
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    Anthropological Arguments in the Ethical Debate about Human Enhancement.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2014 - Humana Mente 7 (26):95–116.
    The paper discusses the role of anthropological arguments in contemporary ethics as exemplified in the current debate about biotechnological human enhancement interventions. Anthropological arguments refer to a normative conception of what it means to be a human being and are highly contested in contemporary moral philosophy. Most often they are promoted to constrain the ethically acceptable use of enhancement technologies. I argue that anthropological arguments can play a fundamental and important role in assessing the moral qualities of enhancement interventions, but (...)
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    Biotecnologie e argomenti antropologici.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2011 - Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 24 (3):499-514.
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    Einleitung.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin - 2016 - In Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Moral, Wissenschaft Und Wahrheit. Boston: De Gruyter.
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    Frontmatter.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin - 2016 - In Julian Nida-Rümelin (ed.), Moral, Wissenschaft und Wahrheit. De Gruyter.
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    Inhalt.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin - 2016 - In Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Moral, Wissenschaft Und Wahrheit. Boston: De Gruyter.
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  30. Metaethik und Pragmatismus : Anmerkungen zur praktischen Philosophie Nida-Rümelins.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2015 - In Julian Nida-Rümelin & Dietmar vd Pfordten (eds.), Moralischer Realismus?: zur kohärentistischen Metaethik Julian Nida-Rümelins. Münster: Mentis.
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    Mensch, Weltbürger.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2015 - In Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Anthropologie und Ethik. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 113-134.
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    Mensch, Weltbürger: Über Anspruch und Umsetzbarkeit des moralischen Kosmopolitismus.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2015 - In Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Anthropologie und Ethik. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 113-134.
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    Moral, Wissenschaft Und Wahrheit.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.) - 2016 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    Normen beeinflussen die Interaktion von Menschen miteinander und den Umgang von Menschen mit ihrer Umwelt. Was aber ist Normativität? Muss sie unabhängig von Menschen sein, um objektiv sein zu können? Oder entsteht sie erst in Abhängigkeit von Menschen, die sie formulieren oder nach ihr handeln, und ist deshalb nicht objektiv? Oder ist dieser Gegensatz grundsätzlich verfehlt und es bedarf eines anderen Ansatzes, um die Rolle von Normativität in der lebensweltlichen Verständigungspraxis angemessen zu bestimmen? Die Beiträge in vorliegendem Band widmen sich (...)
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    Naturgeschichte der Freiheit.Jan-Christoph Heilinger (ed.) - 2007 - de Gruyter.
    Mit dem Abschluss des Humangenomprojekts und den Fortschritten der Lebenswissenschaften stellt sich die Frage nach dem Selbstverstandnis des Menschen in geradezu dramatischer Weise. DAs neu gewonnene Wissen uber den Menschen muss analysiert, aufgearbeitet und bewertet werden. NIcht nur in den Lebens-, sondern auch in den Kulturwissenschaften stellt sich daher die Frage nach dem Selbstverstandnis des Menschen, das unsere Handlungen und Bewertungen sowie unsere Orientierung in der Welt pragt. DIe Forschenden stehen hierbei jedoch vor der Herausforderung, dass vertraute Intuitionen fragwurdig geworden (...)
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    Newcomer integration, individual agency, and responsibility.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2019 - In S. Karly Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.), Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. De Gruyter. pp. 131-148.
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    Realizing Justice in the Coordinated Global Coronavirus Response.Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Sridhar Venkatapuram, Maike Voss & Verina Wild - 2022 - Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 13 (2):21-40.
    The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting countries across the globe. Only a globally coordinated response, however, will enable the containment of the virus. Responding to a request from policy makers for ethics input for a global resource pledging event as a starting point, this paper outlines normative and procedural principles to inform a coordinated global coronavirus response. Highlighting global connections and specific vulnerabilities from the pandemic, and proposing standards for reasonable and accountable decision-making, the ambition of the paper is two-fold: to (...)
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    The debate about 'human enhancement' and its anthropological dimension.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2010 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 13 (2):177-179.
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    Zwei Ideale globaler Gleichheit.Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2016 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 64 (5):757-767.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 64 Heft: 5 Seiten: 757-767.
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    Funktionen des Erlebens: Neue Perspektiven des Qualitativen Bewusstseins.Matthias Jung & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.) - 2009 - Walter de Gruyter.
    Main description: Menschen sind Wesen, die ihr Leben nicht nur führen, sondern es auch erleben. Warum eigentlich? Der Band sucht aus der Perspektive verschiedener natur- und geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen nach Antworten auf diese Frage, in denen das persönliche Erleben und Fühlen als zentrale Komponente unserer Austauschbeziehung mit der sozialen und physischen Umwelt betrachtet wird.
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    Responsibility for integration.S. Karly Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2019 - In S. Karly Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.), Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration. De Gruyter. pp. 1-6.
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    Responsibility for Refugee and Migrant Integration.S. Karly Kehoe, Eva Alisic & Jan-Christoph Heilinger (eds.) - 2019 - De Gruyter.
    This volume brings together a range of practical and theoretical perspectives on responsibility in the context of refugee and migrant integration. Addressing one of the major challenges of our time, a diverse group of authors shares insights from history, philosophy, psychology, cultural studies, and from personal experience. The book expands our understanding of the complex challenges and opportunities that are associated with migration and integration, and highlights the important role that individuals can and should play in the process.
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    (1 other version)Autoren.Julian Nida-Rümelin & Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2015 - In Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.), Anthropologie und Ethik. Boston: De Gruyter. pp. 221-222.
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    Anthropologie und Ethik.Jan-Christoph Heilinger & Julian Nida-Rümelin (eds.) - 2015 - Boston: De Gruyter.
    The relationship between anthropology as the study of human beings and ethics as the study of what humans ought to do is close and multifaceted. The authors address the following questions: Are moral norms grounded in human nature or are they independent of it? Does ethics take into account human weaknesses or is morality absolute? If people change, do the requirements of morality change as well?
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    Moralische Verantwortung in und für Organisationen. [REVIEW]Jan-Christoph Heilinger - 2020 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 68 (6):967-976.
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