David Schwan

Education

Ph.D., Applied Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
M.A., Philosophy, Ohio University

Research Interests

Applied Ethics, Moral Psychology

Recent Courses Taught

PHIL 302 - Ethical Theory
RELS 102 - Everyday Religion and Morality
PHIL 152 - Arguments about Healthcare
PHIL 104 - Moral Controversies

Selected Publications or Presentations

• Schwan, David, and Amitabha Palmer. “More Process, Less Principles: The Ethics of Deploying AI and Robotics in Medicine.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 33, no. 1 (2023): 121–34. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963180123000087
• Schwan, David, and Amitabha Palmer. “Beneficent Dehumanization: Employing Artificial Intelligence and Carebots to Mitigate Shame‐induced Barriers to Medical Care.” Bioethics 36, no. 2 (2021): 187–93. https://doi.org/10.1111/bioe.12986
• Schwan, David. “An Ethical Case for Medical Scribes.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 31, no. 1 (2022): 95–104. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963180121000840
• Schwan, David. “Does Affective Empathy Require Perspective-Taking or Affective Matching?” American Philosophical Quarterly 56, no. 3 (2019): 277–88. https://doi.org/10.2307/48570636
• Schwan, David. “Should Physicians Be Empathetic? Rethinking Clinical Empathy.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 39, no. 5 (2018): 347–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11017-018-9463-y