dr. A. Henschke (Adam)

Assistant Professor
BMS-TPS-PHIL
a.henschke@utwente.nl
+31534898737
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I am an applied ethicist and Research Director and Assistant Professor with the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente. 

My work combines ethics of technology and institutional ethics, developing a pluralist method to offer analyses and critiques of responsibility. This techno-institutionalist approach allows me to explore conceptual and normative issues relating to security, health, information and technology ethics, and to offer critiques of regarding the ethical, social, and political responsibilities of military, intelligence, national security, clinical and public health, information technology, and policy making institutions. 

I have published on national security and military ethics, the ethics of surveillance technologies, ethics of intellgience institutions, care for enhanced veterans, ethics and the internet of things, and ethics of cybersecurity. I am currently working on public health and disordered information, the ethics of connected vehicles, and trust in informationally mediated environments. My recent books include the single authored book Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters In Contemporary Political Conflict, the co-authored book The Ethics Of National Security Institutions: Theory And Applications and the coedited book The Ethics of Surveillance In Times Of Emergency 

I teach on research ethics, leadership, ethics of disruptive technologies, computer ethics, and have taught on just war, national security ethics, health and security, bioethics, and political philosophy.

Expertise

  • Social Sciences

    • National Security
    • Actors
    • Intelligence (National Security)
    • Surveillance
    • Policy
    • War

  • Psychology

    • Research

  • Computer Science

    • Vulnerabilities

Organisations

Publications

2026

Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement (2026)Science and engineering ethics, 32(1). Article 3. Hereth, B., de Boisboissel, G., Bricknell, M. C. M., Brincker, M., Casebeer, W., Davidovic, J., Davis, J., Earl, J., Eisikovits, N., Feldman, D., Garcia, L. F., Gilbert, F., Guérin, V., Henschke, A., Hughes, J., Lambert, D., Latheef, S., Moreno, J. D., Peebles, I. S., … Evans, N. G.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-025-00546-zFrom Enhancement To Disenhancement To De-Enhancement: Institutional Responsibility, and the Duty of Care to Post-Enhanced Veterans. (2026)AJOB neuroscience, 17(1), 46-57. Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/21507740.2025.2557810

2025

Introduction: Ethics and Intelligence (2025)International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 38(4), 1125-1127. Henschke, A. & Miller, S.https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2024.2431558Augmented reality and ethics: key issues (2025)Virtual reality, 29(3). Article 122. Werner, L., Brey, P. & Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-025-01172-7Moral Risk, Moral Injury, and Institutional Responsibility: Ethical Issues in HUMINT (2025)International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, 38(4), 1231-1248. Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/08850607.2024.2382031Cyber-governance of the natural world the implications of digital twins in environmental governance (2025)Earth System Governance, 25. Article 100276. Korenhof, P., Metcalfe, B. & Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.esg.2025.100276On The Enhancement of Soldiers, Disenhancement, and the Importance of Context (2025)Journal of Military Ethics, 24(1), 47-62. Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/15027570.2025.2487329

2024

Pluralism and the Design of Autonomous Vehicles (2024)Philosophy & technology, 37(3). Article 115. Henschke, A. & Arora, C.https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00802-3A gathering storm: offensive and defensive accelerationism in an online far-right community (2024)Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict: Pathways toward Terrorism and Genocide, 17(3), 200-220. Hardy, J. & Henschke, A.https://doi.org/10.1080/17467586.2024.2356515Cognitive warfare: Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict (2024)[Book/Report › Book]. Routledge. Henschke, A.

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