Philip J. Nickel

Philip Nickel is Associate Professor in Philosophy & Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology, where he researches trust, consent, and human reliance in technological contexts. His work examines philosophical aspects of technology-mediated care, particularly in mobile health applications and AI-driven medical systems.

Research areas include:

• Ethics of trust in digital health systems
• Epistemology of reliance in human-technology interactions
• Reimagining consent frameworks for data-intensive medicine
• Normative challenges in socially disruptive technologies

He investigates how traditional bioethical values translate to emerging healthcare technologies, with recent work focusing on justice implications of digital health platforms and trust relationships with medical AI systems.