Pei-hua Huang

Teaching Strengths

Ethics

Dr Pei-hua Huang

Lecturer

School of Humanities

College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities

Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

My research lies in where bioethics and political philosophy intersect. I am especially interested in ethical and philosophical issues raised by human enhancement technology. While most of my publications are about moral bioenhancement (i.e. using biomedical means for the purpose of improving morality), I am also interested in philosophical and ethical issues related to treating morally relevant psychiatric conditions.

My research lies primarily at the intersection of bioethics and political philosophy. I am especially interested in the ethical and philosophical issues raised by human enhancement technologies. While most of my publications focus on moral bioenhancement (i.e., using biomedical means to improve morality), I am also interested in ethical and philosophical issues related to treating morally relevant psychiatric conditions, as well as the ethics of using medical AI developed with machine learning techniques. In 2026, I will take up the Brocher Foundation’s Research Residency to work on my medical AI research project from early March to late April.

 

Year Citation
2026 Huang, P. H. (2026). I Feel I Need to Think about It: A Defence of Affective Moral Enhancement. Bioethics, 40(2), 175-182.
DOI
2022 Huang, P. -H., Kim, K. -H., & Schermer, M. (2022). Ethical Issues of Digital Twins for Personalized Health Care Service: Preliminary Mapping Study. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 24(1), 12 pages.
DOI Scopus106 WoS81 Europe PMC39
2022 Huang, P. -H. (2022). COVID-19 vaccination and the right to take risks. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS, 48(8), 534-537.
DOI Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC3
2022 Mulder, S. T., Omidvari, A. -H., Rueten-Budde, A. J., Huang, P. -H., Kim, K. -H., Bais, B., . . . Steegers-Theunissen, R. (2022). Dynamic Digital Twin: Diagnosis, Treatment, Prediction, and Prevention of Disease During the Life Course. JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH, 24(9), 11 pages.
DOI Scopus43 WoS29 Europe PMC16
2020 Huang, P. -H. (2020). Clean Hands? Philosophical Lessons from scrupulosity. JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, 37(3), 505-507.
DOI
2020 Huang, P. -H. (2020). Who's afraid of perfectionist moral enhancement? A reply to Sparrow. BIOETHICS, 34(8), 865-871.
DOI Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC1
2018 Huang, P. -H., & Tsu, P. S. -H. (2018). Biomedical Moral Enhancement in the Face of Moral Particularism. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 83, 189-208.
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2018 Huang, P. H. (2018). Moral enhancement, self-governance, and resistance. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy United Kingdom, 43(5), 547-567.
DOI Scopus7 WoS7 Europe PMC1
2016 Handfield, T., Huang, P. H., & Simpson, R. M. (2016). Climate change, cooperation and moral bioenhancement. Journal of Medical Ethics, 42(11), 742-747.
DOI Scopus4 WoS5 Europe PMC2

Year Citation
2023 Huang, P. -H. (2023). Climate Change and Human Engineering. In G. Pellegrino, & M. Di Paola (Eds.), Handbook of the Philosophy of Climate Change (pp. 939-955). Springer Nature Switzerland.
2022 Huang, P. -H. (2022). Uncertainty, Vaccination, and the Duties of Liberal States. In M. Dennis, G. Ishmaev, S. Umberello, & J. van den Hoven (Eds.), Values for a Post-Pandemic Future (Vol. 40, pp. 97-110). Springer Nature.
DOI Scopus1
  1. Convergence in a dish: Individualized CELLular models of disease diversity in the population, Convergence Flagship of Erasmus Medical Centre, 2022
    Erasmus University of Rotterdam, and Delf University of Technology
    w/ Joyce van Meurs, Joana Gonçalves, Ken Redekop, Roberto Narcisi, Gijsje Koenderink, Miao-Ping Chien, Jeroen van Rooij, Mehrnaz Ghazvini, Amir Zadpoor, Lidy, Fratila- Apachitei, Gerjo van Osch, Daan Brinks, Marcel Reinders, Kateřina Staňková, Jeroen Demmers, Joris Pothof, Hieab Adams, Sasa Kenjeres, Joost Gribnau, Richard Goossens, Marleen de Mul, Pieter Vandekerckhove, Arfan Ikram, Joseph Powell, Reinout Stoop
  2. Open Mind Call for Health and Technology, 2021
    Convergence Flagship of Erasmus Medical Centre and Delft University of Technology, 
    w/ Samantha Copeland & Maarten van der Sanden
  3. Further Funding, 2019
    Society for Applied Philosophy

Semester 1, 2025
How Should I Live?
Ethics and Philosophy of AI 

Semester 2, 2025
Argument and Critical Thinking
Bioethics
Arts Advanced Reserach Project - Mr. Shengyin Bai (Research Project: A defence of David Widerker’s Frankfurt-friendly libertarianism)

Semester 1, 2024
Argument and Critical Thinking
How Should I Live?

Semester 2, 2024
Bioethics
Ethics and Philosophy of AI 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Co-Supervisor AI and Accountability: Transparency, Explainability, and Accounting for Responsibility
Gaps		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael Lazarou
2024 Co-Supervisor AI and Accountability: Transparency, Explainability, and Accounting for Responsibility
Gaps		 Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Michael Lazarou

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 - 2024 Co-Supervisor Approaching Freedom: A Methodological Approach to the Free Will Debate Master of Philosophy Master Part Time Mr Nicholas Edward Scott

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