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• Bemerkungen zum Begründungstrilemma, Lit Verlag, 2007

 

• Aristoteles über Gerechtigkeit. Das V. Buch der Nikomachischen Ethik, Verlag Karl Alber, 2007

 

• Ethik als Methode, Verlag Karl Alber, 2019

 

• Moralische Orientierung. Eine kurze Philosophie des guten Lebens, Verlag Karl Alber, 2021

 

• Besser Leben! Eine kurze Anleitung zum Glücklichsein, Ebook, 2021

 

• Was ist Philosophie? Eine kleine Einführung, Verlag Karl Alber, 2022

 

• The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights Legislation, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

 

• Ethics as a Method, Verlag Karl Alber, 2024

 

• Morality and Justice - An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan 2024

 

• Aristotle on Justice, Elements in Ancient Philosophy (book series), Cambridge University Press (under contract, work in progress)

 

• Bioethics - An Opinionated Introduction, Verlag Karl Alber (work in progress)

 

• Technocratic Governance. A Groundwork (work in progress)

 

• Morality and Justice. Reading Boylan’s A Just Society,
  Rowman & Littlefield (Lexington Press), Lanham 2009

 

• Clinical Ethics Consultation: Theories and Methods, Implementation, Evaluation,
  (Eds. Jan Schildmann, John-Stewart Gordon, Jochen Vollmann), Ashgate Publishing 2010

 

 

• Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility. Hans Jonas and His Critics (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2014

 

• Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (Eds. Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, Alison Renteln), Rowman & Littlefield 2014

 

• Clinical Ethics Consultation: Theories and Methods, Implementation, Evaluation, (Eds. Jan Schildmann, John-Stewart Gordon, Jochen Vollmann), Routledge 2016 (second edition)
  

 

• Human Rights and Disability. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Johann-Christian Pôder, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2017

 

• Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Francesco Spöring, John-Stewart Gordon), Routledge 2017

 

• Hans Jonas. Zur Diskussion seiner Denkwege (Eds. Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora, John-Stewart Gordon), Logos Verlag 2017

 

• Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights, Brill 2020

 

• Hans Jonas Handbuch (Eds. Michael Bongardt, Holger Burckhart, John-Stewart Gordon,

  Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora), J. B. Metzler 2021

 

• Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies. The Future of Legal Education, Brill 2023
  

• Human Rights in Bioethics, in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, published online first 04/2012, in print: 15/3, 2012, 281-351

 

• Human Rights and Disability (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Jerome Bickenbach), in: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41/4, 2013, 749-828

 

• The Ethics of Ageing, in: Bioethics, 32/4, 2018, 221-268

 

• AI and Law - Ethical, Legal, and Socio-political Implications, in: AI & Society, 36/2, 2021, 403-668

 

• Moral Expertise in (Bio-)Ethics, in: Bioethics, 37/6, 2023, 511-574
  

 

• Superintelligent Robots (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, David Gunkel), in: Philosophical Studies (work in progress)
  

 

• Die moralischen und rechtlichen Dimensionen der Abtreibungsproblematik, in: Conjectura, 10/2, 2005, 43-62

 

• Justice or Equality?, in: Journal for Business, Economics, and Ethics, 7/2, 2006, 183-201
  
  1. Commented: Kirsten Meyer, Relational Equality and Justice, in: Journal for Business, Economics, and Ethics, 7/2, 2006, 202-205

• Über Willensfreiheit, in: Conjectura, 12/1, 2007, 59-74

 

• Hedonistic Utilitarianism and The Argument of The Experience Machine, in: Conjectura, 13/1, 2008, 25-36

 

• Applying the Four-Principle Approach (co-authored with: Oliver Rauprich, Jochen Vollmann), in: Bioethics, 25/6, 2011, 293-300
  
  1. Commented: Tom Beauchamp, Making Principlism Practical: A Commentary on Gordon, Rauprich, and Vollmann, in: Bioethics, 25/6, 2011, 301-303

 

• Global Ethics and Principlism, in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 21/3, 2011, 251-276

 

• Human Rights in Bioethics - Theoretical and Applied, in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15/3, 2012, 283-294

 

• Is Inclusive Education a Human Right?, in: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41/4, 2013, 754-767

 

• Moral Philosophers are Moral Experts! A Reply to David Archard, in: Bioethics, 28/4, 2014, 203-206

 

• Human Rights and Cultural Identity, in: Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 8/2, 2015, 112-135

 

• Should Moral Enhancement be Compulsory?, in: Ethical Perspectives, 23/2, 2016, 277-305 [pdf]

 

• Reconciling Female Genital Circumcision with Universal Human Rights, in: Developing World Bioethics, 18/3, 2018, 222-232 [access SharedIt]
  

 

• Indignity and Old Age, in: Bioethics, 32/4, 2018, 223-232 [access SharedIt]

 

• Remarks on Disability Rights Legislation (John-Stewart Gordon, Felice Tavera-Salyutov), in: Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. An International Journal, 37/5, 2018, 506-526

 

• What Do We Owe to Intelligent Robots?, in: AI & Society, 35, 2020, 209-223 [access SharedIt]

 

• Building Moral Machines - Ethical Pitfalls and Challenges, in: Science and Engineering Ethics, 26, 2020, 141-157 [access SharedIt]

 

• Are Snapshots Art? On the Nature of Digital Photography, in: Pictures Science, 2/1, 2020

 

• Artificial Moral and Legal Personhood, in: AI & Society, 36/2, 2021, 457-471 [access SharedIt]

 

• Human Rights for Robots? A Literature Review (John-Stewart Gordon, Aušrinė Pasvenskienė), in: AI and Ethics, 1, 2021, 579-591 [access SharedIt]

 

• Moral Status and Intelligent Robots (John-Stewart Gordon, David Gunkel), in: The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 60/1, 2022, 88-117 (Online first), ***TOP CITED ARTICLE*** & ***TOP DOWNLOADED ARTICLE***

 

• Kantianism and the Problem of Child Sex Robots (John-Stewart Gordon, Sven Nyholm), in: Journal of Applied Philosophy, 39/1, 2022, 132-147 (open access) 

 

• The African Relational Account of Social Robots: A Step Back?, in: Philosophy & Technology, 35, 2022 (Online first)

 

• Are Superintelligent Robots entitled to Human Rights?, in: Ratio, 35/3, 2022, 181-193 (online first) ***TOP DOWNLOADED ARTICLE***

 

• Moral Expertise Revisited, in: Bioethics, 37/6, 2023, 533-542

 

• Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work (John-Stewart Gordon, David Gunkel), in: AI & Society, 2024 (SharedIt)

 

• Showler's Pragmatic Approach to Moral Status, in: Philosophy & Technology, 37, 2024, article number 69

 

• Moral Egalitarianism, in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
  published online December 2007

 

• Abortion, in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
  published online June 2008

• Translated into Turkish (2020)

• Bioethics, in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
  published online November 2012

 

• Human Rights, in: Oxford Bibliographies in Philosophy (Ed. Duncan Pritchard), published online 2013, up-dated 10/2016, up-dated 10/2023

 

• Modern Morality and Ancient Ethics, in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
  published online March 2013

 

• The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (John-Stewart Gordon, Sven Nyholm), in: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, published online February 2021

 

• Artificial Intelligence and Business Ethics, in: Encyclopedia of Business and Professional Ethics (Eds. Deborah Poff and Alex C. Michalos), Springer Nature, published online June 2022

• Moral, Rationalität und gelungenes Leben (Elif Özmen), in: Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung, 4, 2005, 598-602

 

• The Status of The In Vitro Embryo (Der Status des extrakorporalen Embryos, Ed. Giovanni Maio), in: Bioethics, 22/5, 2008, 296-298

 

• 50 Voices of Disbelief. Why We Are Atheists (Eds. Russell Blackford, Udo Schüklenk), in: Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15/2, 2012, 271-276

 

• Ageing Between Participation and Simulation (Eds. Joschka Haltaufderheide, Johanna Hovemann and Jochen Vollmann), in: Theoria, 86, 2020, 688-691 [access SharedIt]

 

• Artificial Intelligence: Reflections in Philosophy, Theology and the Social Sciences (Eds. Benedikt P. Göcke and Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten), in: AI & Society, 36/2, 2021, 655-659
  

• Poverty, Human Rights, and Just Distributions, in: International Public Health Policy and Ethics (Ed. Michael Boylan): Springer 2008, 131-142

 

• On Justice, in: Morality and Justice. Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon): Rowman&Littlefield, Lanham 2009, 121-132

 

• Ethics as a Method, in: Clinical Ethics Consultation: Theories and Methods, Implementation, Evaluation (Eds. Jan Schildmannn, John-Stewart Gordon, Jochen Vollmann), Ashgate Publishing 2010, 11-20, new edition 2016

 

• On Justifying Human Rights, in: The Morality and Global Justice Reader (Ed. Michael Boylan), Westview Press 2011, 27-49

 

• Medical Paternalism and Patient Autonomy, in: Medical Ethics (Ed. Michael Boylan), Wiley-Blackwell 2013, 72-83 [pdf]

 

• Refined Marxism and Moral Enhancement, in: Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2014, 185-208

 

• Inclusion - A Moral Imperative, but also Socially Desired? (co-authored with: Holger Burckhart, John-Stewart Gordon), in: Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility. Hans Jonas and His Critics (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2014, 93-101

 

• Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Global Bioethics, in: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (co-edited with: Wanda Teays, Alison Renteln), Rowman & Littlefield 2014, 68-91 [pdf]

 

• Tyranneien und gerechte Gesellschaften, in: Kommentarband zu "Michael Walzer: Sphären der Gerechtigkeit. Ein Plädoyer für Pluralität und Gleichheit" (Hrsg. Manuel Knoll), in: Reihe "Staatsdiskurse", Franz Steiner Verlag 2014, 243-254.

 

• Remarks on A Disability-Conscious Bioethics, in: Human Rights and Disability. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Johann-Christian Pöder, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2017, 9-20

 

• On the Nature of the Right not to Know, in: Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. Mariacarla Gadebusch-Bondio, Francesco Spöring, John-Stewart Gordon), Routledge 2017, 42-54

 

• Hans Jonas' philosophische Denkwege - Ein Schlusswort, in: Hans Jonas. Zur Diskussion seiner Denkwege (Hrsg. Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora, John-Stewart Gordon), Logos Verlag 2017, 295-302

 

• Ethics and Standardization (co-authored with: Vladislav Fomin), Corporate Standardization Management and Innovation (Ed. Kai Jakobs), IGI Global, Hershay 2019, 177-192

 

• What Do We Owe to Intelligent Robots? (reprint), in: Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon), Brill 2020, 17-47

 

• Ethics (John-Stewart Gordon, Kestutis Mosakas), in: Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies, Brill, 2023, 19-29

 

• Moral and Legal Status of Robots (John-Stewart Gordon, Kestutis Mosakas), in: Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies, Brill, 2023, 154-163

 

• Guidelines for Regulation of Robotics, (John-Stewart Gordon, Kestutis Mosakas), in: Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies, Brill, 2023, 297-300

 

• AI Ethics and Machine Ethics, in: Handbook on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Ed. David Gunkel), Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024, 97-112

 

• Bemerkungen zur Immoralität von Protestwahlen, in: Rationalität – Freiheit – Verantwortung. Beiträge zur Philosophie Julian Nida-Rümelins (Eds. Martin Rechenauer, Klaus Staudacher, Niina Zuber und Dorothea Winter), de Gruyter, 2024, 227-244

 

• AI and Fundamental Rights, in: A Companion to Applied Philosophy of AI (Eds. Martin Hähnel, Regina Müller), Wiley-Blackwell, 2025, 344-358

 

• On the Moral Status of AI Entities and Robots: A Critique of the Social-relational Approach and A Defense of the Properties-Based Approach, in: Contemporary Debates in the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Eds. Sven Nyholm, John Zerilli, and Atoosa Kasirzadeh), Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming)

 

• Introduction (co-authored with: Tanja Kohnen), in: Morality and Justice. Reading Boylan’s A Just Society (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon): Rowman&Littlefield, Lanham 2009, 1-13

 

• Introduction (co-authored with: Jan Schildmann, Jochen Vollmann), in: Clinical Ethics Consultation: Theories and Methods, Implementation, Evaluation (Eds. Jan Schildmannn, John-Stewart Gordon, Jochen Vollmann), Ashgate Publishing 2010, 1-7, new edition 2016

 

• Editorial (co-authored with: Jerome Bickenbach), in: Human Rights and Disability (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Jerome Bickenbach), in: The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 41/4, 2013, 752-753

 

• Introduction (co-authored with: John-Stewart Gordon, Holger Burckhart, Paula Segler), in: Global Ethics and Moral Responsibility. Hans Jonas and His Critics (Eds. John-Stewart Gordon, Holger Burckhart), Routledge 2014, 1-5

 

• General Introduction (co-authored with: Wanda Teays and Alison Renteln), in: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (co-edited with: Wanda Teays, Alison Renteln), Rowman & Littlefield 2014, 1-8

 

• Uni I Introduction, in: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (co-edited with: Wanda Teays, Alison Renteln), Rowman & Littlefield 2014, 11-12

 

• Uni II Introduction, in: Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (co-edited with: Wanda Teays, Alison Renteln), Rowman & Littlefield 2014, 65-67

 

• General Introduction (co-authored with: M. Bondio, F. Spöring, J.-S. Gordon), in: Medical Ethics, Prediction, and Prognosis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Eds. Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio, Francesco Spöring, John-Stewart Gordon), Routledge 2017, 1-7

 

• Einleitung, in: Hans Jonas. Zur Diskussion seiner Denkwege (Eds. Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora, John-Stewart Gordon), Logos Verlag 2017, 7-10

 

• Editorial, in: Ethics of Ageing (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon), in: Bioethics, 32/4, 2018, 222

 

• General Introduction (co-authored with Kestutis Mosakas), in: Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon), Brill 2020, 1-13

 

• Preface (co-authored with the other editors), in: Hans Jonas Handbook (Eds. Michael Bongardt, Holger Burckhart, John-Stewart Gordon, Jürgen Nielsen-Sikora), J. B. Metzler 2021, VII-VIII
  

 

• Editorial, in: AI and Law: Ethical, Legal, and Socio-political Implications (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon), in: AI & Society, 36/2, 2021, 403-404 [access SharedIt]

 

• Editorial, in: Moral Expertise in (Bio-)Ethics (Ed. John-Stewart Gordon), in: Bioethics, 37/6, 2023, 513-514

 

• General Introduction - The Future of Legal Education, in: Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies, Brill, 2023, 1-13

• Bemerkungen zum Risikobegriff aus Sicht der Medizinethik (Remarks on The Notion of Risk in Medical Ethics), in: Radiotherapie bei gutartigen Erkrankungen (Eds. Heinrich Seegenschmiedt, Franz Rödel, Oliver Micke): Münster 2008, 1-10

• International Conference: Justice in Modern Health Care. Perspectives For The 21st Century, at: Institute for Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, BMBF-Junior Research Group, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, 2011 March 28-30, Ethik in der Medizin, 23, 2011, 251-253