Nils-Frederic Wagner
Institute for History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine
University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
n.wagner[at]uni-mainz.de
Selected Publications
Wagner, N.-F. (2026). Why care resists coding: The moral limits of medical AI. BMC Medical Ethics, 27:99.
Winter, S., & Wagner, N.-F. (forthcoming). Clinical ethics in name only? The case for moral realism at the bedside. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
Schirmer, T., & Wagner, N.-F. (2026). Signed, sealed, but still 'me'? The conventionalist challenge to prospective autonomy. In A. Muñoz-Corcuera & N.-F. Wagner (Eds.), Conventionalism about personal identity (pp. 130–148). Routledge.
Paldan, K., Sauer, H., & Wagner, N.-F. (2023). Promoting inequality? Self-monitoring applications and the problem of social justice. AI & Society, 38, 2597–2607.
Wagner, N.-F., Banerjee, M., & Paul, N. W. (2022). Who’s next? Shifting balances between medical AI, physicians and patients in shaping the future of medicine. Bioethics, 36(2), 111–112.
Wagner, N.-F. (2022). Personal identity, possible worlds, and medical ethics. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 25, 429–437.
Wagner, N.-F. (2021). Habits and narrative agency. Topoi, 40, 677–686.
Wagner, N.-F., & Apostolova, I. (2020). Two sides of the same coin? Neutral monism as an attempt to reconcile subjectivity and objectivity in personal identity. Metaphysica, 21(1), 129–149.
Wagner, N.-F. (2019a). Against cognitivism about personhood. Erkenntnis, 84(3), 657–686.
Wagner, N.-F. (2019b). Doing away with the agential bias: Agency and patiency in health monitoring applications. Philosophy and Technology, 32(1), 135–154.
Wagner, N.-F. (2018). Letting go of one’s life story. Think, 17(50), 91–100.
Northoff, G., & Wagner, N.-F. (2017). Personal identity and brain identity. In L. S. M. Johnson & K. S. Rommelfanger (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of neuroethics (pp. 335–351). Routledge.
Wagner, N.-F., Chaves, P., & Wolff, A. (2017). Discovering the neural nature of moral cognition? Empirical, theoretical, and practical challenges in bioethical research with electroencephalography (EEG). Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 14(2), 299–313.
Northoff, G., & Wagner, N.-F. (2016). Neuroethics. In H. Miller (Ed.), Encyclopedia of theory in psychology (pp. 604–606). Sage Publications.
Robinson, J., Wagner, N.-F., & Northoff, G. (2016). Is the sense of agency in schizophrenia influenced by resting state variation in self-referential regions of the brain? Schizophrenia Bulletin, 42(2), 270–276.
Wagner, N.-F. (2016a). Brain transplants and possible worlds: A response to Beck. South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(2), 141–144.
Wagner, N.-F. (2016b). Transplanting brains? South African Journal of Philosophy, 35(1), 18–27.
Lavagnino, L., & Wagner, N.-F. (2015). Experiencing subjects and the limits of objectivity: Erklären and Verstehen in light of contemporary psychiatry and philosophy of mind. Existenz, 10(1), 1–7.
Wagner, N.-F., & Northoff, G. (2015). A fallacious jar? The peculiar relation between norms and facts in neuroethics. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 36(3), 215–235.
Wagner, N.-F., Robinson, J., & Wiebking, C. (2015). The ethics of neuroenhancement: Smart drugs, competition and society. International Journal of Technoethics, 6(1), 1–20.
Wagner, N.-F., & Northoff, G. (2014). Habits: Bridging the gap between personhood and personal identity. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8, Article 330.
Wagner, N.-F. (2013). Bleibt diachrone personale Identität unergründlich? Menschliche Persistenz, Personale Identität und die Einheit der Person. In G. Gasser & M. Schmidhuber (Eds.), Personale Identität, Narrativität und Praktische Rationalität (pp. 65–83). Mentis.