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62Towards a hermeneutic of technomedical objectsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 29 (2): 103-120. 2008.In this article I consider some central aspects of the naturalist philosophy of science and science and technology studies in dealing with the contested status of technoscience in medicine. Focusing on the concepts of realism and representation, I argue that theories of science-as-practice in naturalist philosophy of science should expand their scope so as to reflect more thoroughly on the social and political context of technoscience. I develop a hermeneutic of technomedical objects in order to…Read more
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48Tackling Epistemological Naivety: Large-Scale Information Systems and the Complexities of the Common GoodCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 20 (4): 584-595. 2011.We have arrived at a situation in which policymakers and ethicists are considering abandoning informed consent in the governance of certain new technologies, many of which are related to large-scale information systems. A paradigm case is the problem with using individuals’ informed consent to regulate biobanks. As sometimes suggested, there is a need for “new ethical frameworks.”
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36Tragedy and Grenzsituationen in genetic predictionMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 12 (1): 9-16. 2009.Philosophical anthropologies that emphasise the role of the emotions can be used to expand existing notions of moral agency and learning in situations of great moral complexity. In this article we tell the story of one patient facing the tough decision of whether to be tested for Huntington’s disease or not. We then interpret her story from two different but compatible philosophical entry points: Aristotle’s conception of Greek tragedy and Karl Jaspers’ notion of Grenzsituationen (boundary situa…Read more
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22Make Way for the Robots! Human- and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private PartnershipMinerva 58 (1): 47-69. 2020.This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of ‘autonomous’ robots to address what is imagined as Europe’s societal challenges. The paper describes how an emerging techno-epistemic network stretches across industry, science, policy and law to legitimize and enact a robotics innovation agenda. Roadmap is the main metaphor and organizing tool in working across the disciplines and sectors, and in aligning these heterogeneous actors with a machine-centric vision alo…Read more
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20The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients' Decision-MakingJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 38 (2): 160-172. 2013.This article reviews recent developments within a number of academic disciplines pointing toward an increasing importance of imagination for understanding morality and cognition. Using elements from hermeneutics and metaphor theory, it works toward a framework for a more context-sensitive understanding of human agency, especially focusing on moral deliberation and change. The analytic framework is used to analyze the story of a patient making tough decisions in the context of prenatal diagnosis.…Read more
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10Post-truth imaginations: new starting points for critique of politics and technoscience (edited book)Routledge. 2022.This book engages with post-truth as a problem of societal order and for scholarly analysis. It claims that post-truth discourse is more deeply entangled with main Western imaginations of knowledge societies than commonly recognised. Scholarly responses to post-truth have not fully addressed these entanglements, treating them either as something to be morally condemned or as accusations against which scholars have to defend themselves (for having somehow contributed to it). Aiming for wider prob…Read more