We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. Next week Piotr Bystranowski give a talk: "Normative ignorance and the folk concept of law”. The seminar will take place exceptionally on Tuesday 20th of June at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

Abstract: Female genital mutilation includes procedures which remove or cause injury to some or all women’s external genital organs. There are a lot of medical risks involved - nevertheless, in some societies it is mainstream practice, carried out mostly on girls younger then fifteen years of age. In this paper, it is considered if it would be acceptable to make compromise in the case of female genital mutilation in the form of so-called Seattle compromise.

If someone denied the existence of resultant moral luck, s/he would probably argue that the no-fault compensation system is fairer than a standard account of tort liability. Agents are not responsible for the consequences and harms they cause but only for the risks they create. David Enoch recently argued that such an approach lacks personal liability taken on by agents. I believe that Enoch’s position is incoherent and taking responsibility is irrelevant for tort liability.

Elena Popa published a new article: "Loneliness as Cause" in Topoi. This paper is a part of Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health project.

Recent literature in experimental philosophy has postulated the existence of the abstract/concrete paradox (ACP): the tendency to activate inconsistent intuitions (and generate inconsistent judgment) depending on whether a problem to be analyzed is framed in abstract terms or is described as a concrete case. One recent study supports the thesis that this effect influences judicial decision-making (...)

Vilius Dranseika, assistant researcher in the BIOUNCERTAINTY project, has authored a new publication "Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs". The publication is a chapter in "Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self" anthology edited by Kevin Tobia.

A new paper by Tomasz Żuradzki & Vilius Dranseika "Reasons to Genome Edit and Metaphysical Essentialism about Human Identity" has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics.

Davide Serpico, former member of the BIOUNCERTAINTY project, and Valentina Petrolini published a new article: "Crossing the Threshold: An Epigenetic Alternative to Dimensional Accounts of Mental Disorders” in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Tomasz Żuradzki will give a talk: "Who are the worst off? Prioritarianism and time". The seminar will take place on Thursday 25th of May at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

We have the pleasure to invite You for a research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. The subject of the seminar is 'The meaning of causal claims in medicine: causal inferences and policy implications'. The seminar will take place on Thursday, 9th of January, at 5:30pm in room 25 of the Institute of Philosophy, 52 Grodzka Street.

Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika, and Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article co-authored with a group of researchers: "Coordination and expertise foster legal textualism" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Tomasz Żuradzki, Principal Investigator of BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Joanna Malinowska published a new article: "Reductionist methodology and the ambiguity of the categories of race and ethnicity in biomedical research: an exploratory study of recent evidence” in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "The Disconnection That Wasn’t: Philosophy in Modern Bioethics from a Quantitative Perspective" in American Journal of Bioethics