Orhan Önder

Postdoc

Orhan Önder is a medical doctor and ethicist holding a Doctorate of Medicine from Marmara University and a Doctorate of Philosophy from the Department of History of Medicine and Ethics at Istanbul University. After three years of clinical practice, he transitioned to academia and currently serves as a Lecturer at Marmara University.

In 2024, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Chair for Philosophy of Media and Technology at the University of Vienna, where he collaborated with Mark Coeckelbergh on the project “Ethical Challenges Emerging from the Integration of AI in Clinics.” The project was funded by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). Since 2025, he has continued his affiliation with the Chair as a Research Fellow.

His research lies at the intersection of bioethics, AI ethics, and the philosophy of medicine and technology. His doctoral work (2025) provided an epistemological and ethical analysis of AI-enhanced clinics, examining structural transformations in clinical dynamics, decision-making, and responsibility. Extending this line of inquiry beyond the clinical domain, he now develops a systematic account of the normative and ontological dimensions of structural transformations within human–technology–environment relations, exploring their implications for contemporary metaphysics and the philosophy of technology.

Recent Publications

Onder, O., Ilkilic, İ. (2026). Can health technologies be “care optimizers”? A normative evaluation of digital health technologies in light of postphenomenological reflections. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-026-10337-3 [XC1] 

Onder, O., Deniz, E.M. (2026). Cyberspatial privacy in the digital age: a proxemics-based framework with a healthcare application. BMC Med Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-025-01369-0

Buhr, E., Onder, O., Rudra, P., & Ursin, F. (2025). Trust and Artificial Intelligence in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Epistemological Preconditions and Reliability Gaps. Ethics and Information Technology, 27(4), 60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-025-09867-w [XC2] 

Onder, O. (2025). Planetary health in the age of artificial intelligence: A structural–ethical inquiry into sustainable AI in healthcare. AI & SOCIETY. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02603-4

email: orhan.onder@marmara.edu.tr