Teaching

Current Teaching

I teach a broad range of topics at Amsterdam’s two main academic hospitals, including: ethics of psychiatry (e.g, the value of psychiatric diagnoses); ethics and infectious diseases; moral deliberation; autonomy, the human will, competence, and informed consent; theories of health and illness; philosophy of science; evidence-based medicine; academic competences and how to be a good doctor.

Lectures

I give a variety of lectures at different universities:

• Ethics of Health Apps and Medical Devices

• Robots and Retribution: The Philosophy and Moral Psychology of Punishing AI

• Ethics and Infectious Diseases

• Liberalism and the Harm Principle

• The World of Ethical AI

Past Teaching

Ethics, Health, and Society

Topics included: notions of autonomy, health, well-being, and justice, normative theory (deontology, utilitarianism, virtue ethics), public health ethics, paternalism, liberalism and Mill’s harm principle, and the ethics of mandatory vaccination.

Ethical Implications of Human Nature

Topics included: moral character and situationism, implicit bias, weakness of will, nudging, paternalism, voter (in)competence, the possibility and extent of human self-knowledge, and moral motivation in the context of climate change.