Lokhorst, G.J.C. (Gert-Jan)
Research profile
Gert-Jan Lokhorst has studied medicine (Master’s degree, 1980) and philosophy (Master’s degree, cum laude, 1985, PhD degree, 1992). He has had positions (in several academic institutions) in the following areas:
* philosophy of medicine,
* neural networks,
* deontic expert systems,
* philosophical logic,
* philosophy of mind and philosophy of artificial intelligence,
* philosophy and ethics of science and technology.
His research interests include:
- Philosophical logic (especially deontic logic, epistemic logic, fuzzy logic, paraconsistent logic, logic of action, logic in AI)
- Philosophy of artificial intelligence, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of mind
- History and philosophy of the neurosciences
- Philosophy and ethics of medicine and technology
He wrote two books on the philosophy of neuroscience (in Dutch): Homo Duplex: Philosophical Interpretations of the Split-Brain Syndrome and Brain and Consciousness: The Mind-Brain Problem in Contemporary Neuroscience). He published papers in prestigious refereed journals. He is a member of the editorial board of Psyche and associate editor of Neuroethics.
In addition to this, he is interested in the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the wider public. He wrote many articles in Dutch newspapers and semi-popular journals (mainly NRC-Handelsblad and Neuropraxis), and made a documentary on brain research in the Netherlands, broadcast on Dutch public television in 1992.
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3TU.Ethics Projects
Neuroethics: ethical, legal and conceptual aspects of neuroscience and neurotechnology
Scientific publications (selection)
Lokhorst, G.J.C. 2007. Ethics of Medical Imaging. Technical report for NWO/STW. Delft: Technische Universiteit Delft.
Lokhorst, G.J.C. 2006. Andersonian Deontic Logic, Propositional Quantification, and Mally. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 47 (3):385-395.available online
Lokhorst, G.J.C. 2006. Propositional Quantifiers in Deontic Logic. In Deontic Logic and Artificial Normative Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4048), edited by L. Goble and J.-J. C. Meyer. Berlin-New York: Springer.available online
Degenaar, M.J.L., and G.J.C. Lokhorst. 2005. Molyneux's Problem. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by E. N. Zalta. Stanford: CA: Stanford University.available online
Lokhorst, G.J.C. 2005. Descartes and the Pineal Gland. In Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by E. N. Zalta. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.available online
Wiegel, V., M.J. van den Hoven, and G.J.C. Lokhorst. 2005. Privacy, Deontic Epistemic Action Logic and Software Agents: An Executable Approach to Modeling Moral Constraints in Complex Informational Relationships. Paper read at Ethics of new information technologies: proceedings of CEPE2005, at Enschede, Netherlands.available online
Wiegel, V., M.J. van den Hoven, and G.J.C. Lokhorst. 2005. Privacy, Deontic Epistemic Action Logic and Software Agents. Ethics and Information Technology, 251-264.available online
Professional/Popular publications (selection)
Lelie, Christo, and Gert-Jan Lokhorst. 2008. Muziek en de hersenen. In Harmonie in gedrag: de maatschappelijke en pedagogische betekenis van muziek, edited by R. F. W. Diekstra and M. Hogenes. Uithoorn: Karakter Uitgevers.
G.J.C. Lokhorst. 2008. Ethical and Social Aspects of Neuro-centred Interface Design. In: Ira van Keulen (ed.), Brain Visions; How the Brain Sciences Could Change the Way We Eat, Communicate, Learn and Judge. The Hague: STT, pp. 218-222. available online
Lokhorst, G.J.C. 2007. Ethiek in Delft / Ethics in Delft. Delft Integraal / Delft Outlook, no. 3 of 2007.
Teaching
- WM0324LR Ethics and Technology for Aerospace Engineers
- ID 5471 Ethics for Industrial Design Engineers and Architects
