Prof. Dr. Karola Kreitmair

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Publications

• Kreitmair, K. (2021). “Medical Ethics, Moral Courage, and the Embrace of Fallibility”, Academic Medicine, 96(12), 1630-1633.

• Greely, H, and Kreitmair, K. (2021) “Should Cerebral Organoids be Used for Research if They Have the Capacity for Consciousness?”, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics: Clinical Neuroethics, 30(4), 575-584.

• Kreitmair, K. (2019) “Ethical Dimensions of Direct-to-Consumer Neurotechnologies”, American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience, 10 (4), 152-166. 

• [P]Kreitmair, K., and Magnus, D. (2019) “Citizen Science and Gamification”, Hastings Center Report, 49 (2), 40-46. 

• [P]Kreitmair, K., Magnus, D., and Cho, M. (2017) “Wearable and mobile health technology: Consent and engagement, security, and authentic living”, Nature Biotechnology, 35 (7), 617-620. [P]

FRIAS research project

Phenomenological, existential, and ethical considerations of digital behavioral technology

The proposed projects is a philosophical investigation into the phenomenology, ethics, and existentialist implications of digital behavioral technology (DBT). DBT, which is a rapidly growing class of technologies mostly comprised of direct-to-consumer wearables, mobile health technologies, smartphone apps, and neurotechnologies that are used by consumers for self-optimization, affects the everyday phenomenological embodied experience of users in novel ways. By employing theoretical approaches from Heidegger’s phenomenological work, I plan to delineate how DBT intersects with this experience. I will then consider the existentialist implications of these phenomenological ramifications, in particular by using the Sartrean ideas of facticity and transcendence. Finally, I plan to draw ethical conclusions from the phenomenological and existential analysis.