Dierckxsens
Geoffrey
Geoffrey Dierckxsens is currently head of the Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics (IRLaB) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He is Deputy Head of the Department of Applied Philosophy and Ethics at the same institute and former President of the Society for Ricoeur Studies (2022-2024). He obtained his Ph.D. form the University of Antwerp in 2015 on a dissertation on Paul Ricoeur and his current research areas are phenomenological bioethics, enactivism and applied ethics more generally. Geoffrey Dierckxsens has published widely in journals such as The Journal for Medicine and Philosophy, The Journal of Medical Ethics, Mind & Society and Topoi. He has books published with Brill, De Gruyter, Bloomsbury, Rowman and Littlefield and Lexington Books.
Edited Special Journal Issues in Progress:
Dierckxsens, Geoffrey (ed.), “(Bio-) Ethical dimensions of Enactive Cognition,” Topoi. An International Review of Philosophy (scheduled to appear in 2021).
“Enactivism and French Philosophy,” The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy (scheduled to appear in 2020).
Publications (selection):
Dierckxsens, Geoffrey, “Health care as participatory sense-making: an enactive perspective on relations between patients and health care providers,” Mind & Society (Springer, 2024, online first). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11299-024-00311-y
Dierckxsens, Geoffrey & Baron, Teresa, “Phenomenological Interview and Gender Dysphoria: A Third Pathway for Diagnosis and Treatment,” Journal for Medicine and Philosophy 49 (1), 2023: 28-42 (Oxford University Press): https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhad039
Dierckxsens, Geoffrey & Bergmann, Lasse Tenzin, “Enactive Ethics and Hermeneutics: From Bodily Normativity to Critical Ethics,” Topoi: an International Review of Philosophy (Springer) 41 (2), 2022: 299-312.
Baron, Teresa & Dierckxsens, Geoffrey, “Two Dilemmas for Medical Ethics in the Treatment of Gender Dysphoria in Youth,” Journal of Medical Ethics 48 (9), 2022: 603-607.