Research Group Leader in the Field of Applied Philosophy, University of Bremen | Editorial Director, Karl Alber
Expertise: Applied Ethics (Medical Ethics, AI Ethics. Political Ethics), Normative Ethics, Philosophy of Religion
Martin Hähnel, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is Research Group Leader of the joint project “Responsible Use of AI in Medicine” (sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at the University of Bremen and a member of the digiBRAVE Research Project at the University of Augsburg, which is dedicated to the early detection, prevention, and treatment of depression. Hähnel is one of the founders of the bilingual journal Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie/Journal for Ethics and Moral Philosophy (Springer Nature) and Editorial Director of the German publishing house Karl Alber, which is one of the most important German specialist publishers for philosophy. He has completed numerous research stays, e.g. at the University of Oxford (UK) and Boston College. He was also an ethics consultant for the University of Cambridge (UK) as part of a translational EU project on cancer research. Haehnel has written numerous scientific articles and several books, including Aristotelian Naturalismus: A Research Companion (Springer Nature 2020) and Blackwell Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI (forthcoming).
His research is application-orientated and based on the principles of natural law and the paradigm of virtue ethics. His research also gives space to the spiritual and non-optimisable nature of human beings, which is also reflected in a critique of materialistic theories of consciousness and consequentialist moral concepts.
