#Home - Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki (INCET)
BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498
The goal of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) at the Jagiellonian University is to encourage and support research activities in philosophy and ethics, in particular research on the classic bioethical dilemmas (e.g. reproductive or end-of-life decisions, organ transplantation, clinical decision making) and on topics that emerge from recent technological, social, and scientific developments (e.g. regulating scientific research, genetic engineering, human enhancement, new healthcare and reproductive technologies, evidence based medicine, preventive medicine, big data, artificial intelligence, algorithmic decision-making). See more information about INCET
News
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17 October – Dariusz Miękisz – Emotional constructivism and moral responsibility
03.10.2024
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Dariusz Miękisz is going to give a talk "Emotional constructivism and moral responsibility". The seminar will take place on the 17th of October at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
9-10 September 2024 – East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS)
24.09.2024
We are sharing the programme of the upcoming East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS) conference which is co-organised by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU. The conference is going to take place on 9th and 10th of September in the building of the Faculty of International and Political Studies, Władysława Reymonta 4 in Kraków
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10th of October – Piotr Bystranowski – What is it that we don't know when we don't know the law: Evidence from 120,000 Reddit posts
05.09.2024
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Piotr Bystranowski is going to give a talk "What is it that we don't know when we don't know the law: Evidence from 120,000 Reddit posts". The seminar will take place on the 10th of October at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
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7th of November – Nicholas Vrousalis – What’s unjust about structural injustice
05.09.2024
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Nicholas Vrousalis is going to give a talk: "What’s unjust about structural injustice". The seminar will take place on the 7th of November at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
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26th of September – Jan Kandiyali – One Thing Today and the Same Thing Tomorrow
30.08.2024
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Jan Kandiyali is going to give a talk "One Thing Today and the Same Thing Tomorrow". The seminar will take place on the 7th of November at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
Recent publications
New paper co-authored by Giulio Fornaroli
Giulio Fornaroli from INCET and Cristián Rettig published a new article: “Conflicts of Rights and Action-Guidingness” in Ratio Juris. This paper is a part of Making Up for What We Did: From Morality to the Law; From the Present to the Past project.
New paper co-authored by Vilius Dranseika
Vilius Dranseika from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Ivars Neiders, published a new article: "Is “terminally ill self-killing” suicide?” in Clinical Ethics
New paper co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski
Piotr Bystranowski from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen, published a new article: "Justice before Expediency: Robust Intuitive Concern for Rights Protection in Criminalization Decisions” in Review of Philosophy and Psychology
New paper by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki
Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic-modeling study" in Bioethics
New book co-edited by Piotr Bystranowski
Piotr Bystranowski from BIOUNCERTAINTY project co-edited a book: "Judicial Decision-Making: Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives”
New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki, Principal Investigator of BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences
New paper co-authored by Mariusz Maziarz
Mariusz Maziarz from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Adrian Stencel, published a new article: "The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence” in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.
New paper by Karolina Wiśniowska, Tomasz Żuradzki and Wojciech Ciszewski
A new paper by Karolina Wiśniowska, Tomasz Żuradzki and Wojciech Ciszewski titled "Value choices in European COVID-19 vaccination schedules: how vaccination prioritization differs from other forms of priority setting" has been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.
New paper coauthored by Vilius Dranseika: Does Macbeth See a Dagger? An Empirical Argument for the Existence-Neutrality of Seeing
A new paper by Viliusa Dranseiki and André Sant’Anna "Does Macbeth See a Dagger? An Empirical Argument for the Existence-Neutrality of Seeing" has been published in Erkenntnis.
New paper by Lee Elkin and Karolina Wiśniowska - Too Rational: How Predictive Coding’s Success Risks Harming the Mentally Disordered and Ill
A new paper by Lee Elkin and Karolina Wiśniowska titled "Too Rational: How Predictive Coding’s Success Risks Harming the Mentally Disordered and Ill" has been published in the first issue of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy.
Half a Century of Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. A Topic-Modeling Study - a new article by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika and Tomasz Żuradzki forthcoming in Bioethics
Topic modeling–a text-mining technique often used to uncover thematic structures in large collections of texts–has been increasingly frequently employed in the context of analysis of scholarly output. In this study, we construct a corpus of 19,488 texts published since 1971 in seven leading journals in the field of bioethics and philosophy of medicine and we fit a topic model, using the latent Dirichlet algorithm (K = 100).
