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9The micro-level of climate protection in healthcare and physicians’ professional ethos: a reply to the commentariesJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (6): 378-379. 2024.We are extremely grateful for the insightful and thought-provoking commentaries on our feature article.1 We have distilled four themes emerging from the commentaries, and we would also like to address one misunderstanding of our argument that has appeared. In our article, we explicitly acknowledge that major decisions relevant for climate protection take place at the mesolevels and macrolevels of healthcare, a point raised again in some of the commentaries.2–4 Climate protection is a societal is…Read more
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7Physicians’ duty to climate protection as an expression of their professional identity: a defence from Korsgaard’s neo-Kantian moral frameworkJournal of Medical Ethics 50 (6): 368-374. 2024.The medical profession is observing a rising number of calls to action considering the threat that climate change poses to global human health. Theory-led bioethical analyses of the scope and weight of physicians’ normative duty towards climate protection and its conflict with individual patient care are currently scarce. This article offers an analysis of the normative issues at stake by using Korsgaard’s neo-Kantian moral account of practical identities. We begin by showing the case of physici…Read more
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18Occupying Multiple Practical Identities instead of Moving between the Moral Spheres: An Alternative Perspective on Physicians’ Professional EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 23 (12): 42-44. 2023.In depicting five “spheres of morality” occupied by physicians Doernberg and Troug provide an impressive analysis on physicians’ various commitments and role conflicts which are excellently illustr...
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31Editorial ‘the Value of Disorientation’Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 23 (3-4): 495-499. 2020.
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19Taking a moral holiday? Physicians’ practical identities at the margins of professional ethicsJournal of Medical Ethics. forthcoming.Physicians frequently encounter situations in which their professional practice is intermingled with moral affordances stemming from other domains of the physician’s lifeworld, such as family and friends, or from general morality pertaining to all humans. This article offers a typology of moral conflicts ‘at the margins of professionalism’ as well as a new theoretical framework for dealing with them. We start out by arguing that established theories of professional ethics do not offer sufficient…Read more
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17Is Practical Deliberation Bound by a Coherency Requirement? Foundational Normative States, Volitional Conflict, and AutonomyPhilosophy 98 (1): 55-79. 2023.Harry G. Frankfurt has put the problem of volitional conflict at the center of philosophical attention. If you care fundamentally about your career and your family, but these cares conflict, this conflict undermines the coherency of your decision standard and thereby your ability to choose and act autonomously. The standard response to this problem is to argue that you can overcome volitional conflict by unifying your foundational motivational states. As Frankfurt puts it, the ‘totality of thing…Read more
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15Hilde Lindemann’s Counterstories: A Framework for Understanding the #MeToo Social Resistance Movement on TwitterPhenomenology and Mind 20 88-99. 2021.This paper proposes a framework for understanding and analysing online social resistance movements based on Hilde Lindemann’s concept of counterstories (Damaged Identities, Narrative Repair, 2003). This framework is based on the premise that we shape our identities in shared social spaces, and that such shared spaces are structured according to so-called ‘master narratives’. Master narratives define the ‘realm of possible identities’ that we can assume, and form the basis for either recognizing …Read more
Henk J. van Gils-Schmidt
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
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Hamburg University of Applied SciencesPost-doctoral Fellow
University of Greifswald & University of Antwerp (joint Degree)
Alumnus, 2019
Hamburg, HH, Germany
Areas of Specialization
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Practical Reason |
Applied Ethics, Miscellaneous |
Kantian Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Moral Psychology |
Moral Reasoning and Motivation |