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22 sierpnia 2022 roku - John Lizza - Working Towards Consensus on Brain Death
Interdyscyplinarne Centrum Etyki UJ (INCET) zaprasza na kolejne otwarte seminarium badawcze! Referat ztytułowany "Working Towards Consensus on Brain Death" wygłosi John P. Lizza. Spotkanie odbędzie się w poniedziałek 22 sierpnia o godzinie 14:00 w sali 25 Instytutu Filozofii UJ (Grodzka 52) oraz za pośrednictwem platformy MS Teams.
Abstrakt
“Oh yes, the human body is most definitely inhuman. Especially a dead one.” – Janina Duszejko
Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Disagreement over the acceptability of a neurological criterion for determining death (“brain death”) can sometimes be traced back to disagreement over biology, i.e., what it means for a human organism to be integrated as a whole. Disparate parties, such as James Bernat and D. Alan Shewmon, agree on defining death in biological terms as the irreversible loss of the integration of the organism as whole but disagree over whether the loss of all brain function is sufficient for determining that this state has occurred. In this paper, I argue that we need not resolve this biological disagreement in order to accept brain death as death. Instead, I suggest that we should put aside or bracket the disagreement in theoretical biology over what it means for an organism to be integrated as a whole and appeal to what I think are some very common moral and social considerations about what it means for one of us to die in order to arrive at a consensus that brain death is death.
Seminarium jest organizowane wspólnie przez Tomasza Żuradzkiego (w ramach projektu BIOUNCERTAINTY) oraz Piotra Grzegorza Nowaka (w ramach grantu Sonata numer 2020/39/D/HS1/02907).