Eike-Henner Kluge
Contact Info
Email: ekluge@uvic.ca
Office: CLE B313
Hours: T 10:30-11:20, F 1:30-2:20
Phone: (250) 721-7519
Biography
History: B.A. (Calgary), A.M., Ph.D. (Mich.), professor and departmental ombudsman. Taught at various universities in the US and Canada before coming to the University of Victoria. In 1989 he was asked by the Canadian Medical Association to establish the Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs, and was its first Director. He was the first expert witness in medical ethics recognized by Canadian courts, and has acted in that capacity in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. He has been a consultant to Health Canada, various provincial Ministries of Health and Health Regions, as well as to the Office of the B.C. Police Complaint Commissioner and has presented invited testimony to Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Committees. From 2004 to 2010 he was the Canadian Bioethics Society’s delegate to the Canadian Council on Animal Care. He is a member of WG4 (Security in Health Information Systems) of the International Medical Informatics Association, was the lead author of its Code of Ethics (translated into 9 languages) and wrote the accompanying Handbook of Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals. In 2005 he received the Award for Research Excellence of the UVic Faculty of Humanities, and .in 2007 he was awarded the Abbyann Lynch Medal in Bioethics by the Royal Society of Canada. Current research interests include medical informatics, human tissue banking and genetic engineering.
Interests: biomedical and information ethics, topics in the history of philosophy.
Publications: books and articles on topics ranging from medieval philosophy and metaphysics to health care and information ethics. Detailed list available on request.
Course Materials
Dr. Kluge's Course Materials can be found on UVic's Moodle platform. Access is restricted to registered students.
Curriculum Vitae
Courses Currently Taught
As taught by Eike-Henner Kluge
This is an introductory course that deals with issues such as abortion, allocation of resources, euthanasia, reproductive technologies, informed consent, etc. It is open to all students with second year standing (or with professional degrees) and presupposes no training in philosophy. Its main focus is to provide conceptual tools that will allow students to evaluate ethical issues that arise in the delivery of health care. Notes for the course are available on the Web, as are practice problems (with solutions). The examinations for this course involve videos of role-plays illustrating bioethical issues.
Course Materials in Moodle:
Look for the PHIL course listings on UVic's Moodle site (moodle.uvic.ca).
As taught by Eike-Henner Kluge
This course has two parts: one is historical, the other constructive (original). The historical part will acquaint the student with several seminal theories of perception, beginning with Plato and ending with twentieth-century sense-datum and percept theorists; point out their similarities and differences; and will illustrate how, by and large, they shared the same intentional model that doomed their speculations to failure. The constructive part will consist of an analysis of perceptual awareness as such, and on that basis will try to develop a model that allows for cognitively significant multi-modal sensory awareness in one and the same perceiver.As taught by Eike-Henner Kluge
This course has two parts: one is historical, the other constructive (original). The historical part will acquaint the student with several seminal theories of perception, beginning with Plato and ending with twentieth-century sense-datum and percept theorists; point out their similarities and differences; and will illustrate how, by and large, they shared the same intentional model that doomed their speculations to failure. The constructive part will consist of an analysis of perceptual awareness as such, and on that basis will try to develop a model that allows for cognitively significant multi-modal sensory awareness in one and the same perceiver.