The list of all seminars organized as part of the Deep uncertainties in bioethics: genetic research, preventive medicine, reproductive decisions (BIOUNCERTAINTY) project.

Academic year: 2025/2026

• Martin O’Neill (University of York)
  Limiting Markets: Socialisation, Decommodification, and the Sense of Justice (11.12.2025)
• Christoph Merdes (Jagiellonian University)
  The Rational Allocation of Attention (04.12.2025)
• Giulio Fornaroli (Jagiellonian University)
  Privilege, Structural Wrongs, and Interpersonal Duties (27.11.2025) 
• Matthew Rachar (Freie Universität Berlin)
  Sharing Agential Fates (20.11.2025)
• Thomas Nys (University of Amsterdam)
  Self-Determination in the Age of Influence (13.11.2025)
• Emily McTernan (University College London)
  Two conceptions of recognition respect: More Goffman, less Kant (23.10.2025)
• Lara Kirfel (Stanford University)
  Thinking about what's possible (23.10.2025)
• Björn Lundgren (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Three Accounts of Risk (08.10.2025)

Academic year: 2024/2025

• Drew Johnson (MSCA fellowship)
  The Problems of Certainty in Public Discourse (10.07.2025)
• Kovacevic Katarina (Central European University Vienna)
  Responsibility ascription to ignorant agents: lay people's intuitions (12.06.2025)
• Ezio Di Nucci (University of Copenhagen)
  Trusting experts: on being a joke (in philosophy) (22.05.2025)
• Revati Shivnekar (Jagiellonian University)
  The difference between deciding and solving: an empirical investigation (23.01.2025)
• Stanislas Richard (St. Sebastian University)
  The unpleasant solution to the exploitation problem (09.01.2025)
• Anne Siegetsleitner (University of Innsbruck)
  Epistemic Injustice and Gender-Biased AI (12.12.2024)
• Daniel Telech (Lund University)
  Unwitting yet Praiseworthy Rightdoing: On Negligence’s Positive Analogue (05.12.2024)
• Mihaela Constantinescu (University of Bucharest)
  Personal Generative AI avatars and proxy-responsibility gaps (28.11.2024)
• Nicholas Vrousalis (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  What’s unjust about structural injustice (07.11.2024)
• Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian University)
  Emotional constructivism and moral responsibility (17.10.2024)
• Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University)
  What is it that we don't know when we don't know the law: Evidence from 120,000 Reddit posts (10.10.2024)
• Klee Schöppl (University of Groningen)
  Formalizing standpoint occupancy: Why, how, and how not to (03.10.2024)

Academic year: 2023/2024

• Jan Kandiyali (Durham University)
  One Thing Today and the Same Thing Tomorrow (26.09.2024)
• Jeffrey Hanson (Harvard University)
  The measure of meaningfulness at work (23.05.2024)
• Bartosz Janik (Jagiellonian University)
  Rules and interpretation: behavioral account (25.04.2024)
• Tomasz Krawczyk (Jagiellonian University)
  Meaningful inclusion? Influence of Research Institutions on Epistemic Injustice in Public Involvement (18.04.2024)
• Jakub Petri (Jagiellonian University)
  Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment (11.04.2024)
• Edmond Awad (Oxford University)
  Online Serious Games as a Tool to Study Value Disagreement (04.04.2024)
• Maciej Próchnicki (Jagiellonian University)
  The Robin Hood Effect: the Effect of Income on Perceived Fairness of Mutual Compensation in Tort Damages (7.03.2024)
• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
  What Does Bioethics Enage With? A Case Study In Citaton Analysis (29.02.2024)
• Callum MacRae (Jagiellonian University)
  Does Domination Require an Equal Power? (22.02.2024)
• Christoph Merdes (Jagiellonian University)
  Rational Injustice, Rational Justice? (1.02.2024)
• Wojciech Kaftański (Jagiellonian University)
  The Moral Psychology of Social Comparison: Nature and Normativity: Aims, Ambitions, and Methodology (07.12.2023) 
• Giulio Fornaroli (Jagiellonian University)
  Doxastic Wrongs, Freedom of the Mind, and the Right to Wrong Others (in Our Mind) (23.11.2023)
• Elena Popa (Jagiellonian University) & Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz (Jagiellonian University Medical College)
  Democratic Deliberation and Trust in Science: Lessons from Systemic Approaches (26.10.23)
• Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian University)
  Ascribing moral responsibility and decision-making capacity to agents with various emotional/intellectual disturbances (12.10.23)
• Jay Zameska (Jagiellonian University)
  Can contractualists complain about risk? (05.10.2023)

Academic year: 2022/2023

 

• Piotr Nowak (Jagiellonian University)
  The death of an organism and death as the loss of moral status. Does the organismal superposition problem challenge the first, while nihilism challenges the second? (22.06.23)

• Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University)
  Normative ignorance and the folk concept of law (20.06.23)

• Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University)
  Who are the worst off? Prioritarianism and time (25.05.23)

• Chenwei Nie (Jagiellonian University)
  A new framework for explaining delusions (18.05.23)

• Frank Ursin (Hannover Medical School) Cristian Timmermann (University of Augsburg)
  Intraoperative application of mixed and augmented reality for digital surgery: A systematic review of all ethical issues (10.05.23)

• Shaun Nichols (Cornel University)
  Not for me: On the external function of guilt (09.05.23)

• Mariangela Zoe Cocchiaro (Jagiellonian University)
  The Equal Weight View without the Principle of Indifference (27.04.23)

• Christoph Merdes (Jagiellonian University)
  Formal epistemology meets Epistemic Injustice – An Outline (13.04.23)

• Overcomming the plurality of causal pluralisms (23.03.23)

• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
  The Duality of Value: A Corpus Study (16.03.23)

• Giulio Fornaroli (Jagiellonian University)
  Making the Beneficiary Pay: Distributive, Not Corrective (09.03.23)

• Francesco Testini (Jagiellonian University)
  Between explaining and justifying. The normative upshot of vindicatory arguments (23.02.23)

• Maciej Próchnicki (Jagiellonian University)
  What do we punish for? Phantoms, proxies, and Al Capone’s tax forms (02.02.23)

• Karolina Wiśniowska (Jagiellonian University)
  Wpływ populizmu bioetycznego na dopuszczalność przerywania ciąży w Polsce w latach 2015-2020 (19.01.23)

• Davide Serpico (Jagiellonian University) Mark Fedyk (University of California, Davis)
  Threshold Problems in Bioethics: Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (08.12.22)

• Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University)
  Deceptive implicatures in the courtroom (01.12.22)

• Elena Popa (Jagiellonian University)
  (Dis)Trust in Science and Values: Two Arguments in Relation to Public Health (17.11.22)

• Francesco Testini (Jagiellonian University)
  Why do we punish? (10.11.22)

• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
  Delineating Philosophy of Medicine. A data-driven approach (03.11.22)

• Saul Smilansky (University of Haifa)
  Suicide, Organ Donation and Meaning in Life: Some Disturbing Reflections (24.10.22)

• Yafeng Shan (Kent University)
  Causation in Biology (20.10.22)

Academic year: 2021/2022

• John P. Lizza (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)
  Working Towards Consensus on Brain Death (22.08.22)

• Cristian Timmermann (University of Augsburg)
  Levels of Explicability for medical Artificial Intelligence: What do we need and what can we get? (09.06.22)

• Maciej Juzaszek (Jagiellonian University)
  Precautionary principle as an encroachment on evidence-based law  (13.04.22)

• Lukas Meier (University of Cambridge)
  How to Compute Bioethics (07.04.22)

• Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University)
  Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons (06.04.22)

• Bartosz Janik (Jagiellonian University)
  Fuzzy trace theory and psychiatric decision making  (25.03.22)

• Marta Soniewicka (Jagiellonian University)
  Czy empatia jest potrzebna rządom prawa? O roli emocji w prawie  (10.03.22)

• Joona Räsänen (Aarhus University)
  Is it wrong to hire employees based on personality? (24.02.22)

• Elena Popa (Asian University for Women)
  Distrust and Decision Making in Public Health (20.01.22)

• Wojciech Kaftański (Harvard University)
  Affective Admiration, Motivation, and Value: Some Remarks on Exemplarity (13.01.22)

• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
  Attributions of Responsibility in Joint Human-A.I. Decision-making in Medicine  (16.12.21)

• Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian University)
  Can antidepressants alter your moral senses? (16.12.21)

• Replication Crisis, Perspectival Realism, and the Malleability of Statistics (04.11.21)

• Davide Serpico (Jagiellonian University)
  Quantitative Traits in Psychiatry and the Concept of Threshold  (07.10.21)

• Ivar Hannikainen (Universidad de Granada)
  Experimental philosophical bioethics, advance directives, and the true self in dementia (06.10.21)

Academic year: 2020/2021

• Karolina Wiśniowska (Jagiellonian University)
  Covid-19 vaccinations: ethics of prioritization policies  (17.06.21)

• Do medical researchers make conclusions that disagree with statistical methodology? A philosophical defense (10.06.21)

• Marcin Waligóra (Jagiellonian University), Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University)
  Why high-risk research with limited prospect of direct benefit can be justified: the case of phase 1 pediatric trials in oncology (31.05.21)

• Markus Kneer (Universität Zürich), Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University)
  Outcome Effects, Moral Luck and the Hindsight Bias (13.05.21)

• Joby Varghese (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu)
  Non-epistemic values in shaping the parameters for evaluating the effectiveness of candidate vaccines (06.05.21)

• Christian Tarsney (University of Oxford)
  Non-Additive Axiologies in Large Worlds (22.04.21)

• Michael Klenk (Technische Universiteit Delft)
  Moral Judgement and Moral Progress: The Problem of Cognitive Control (08.04.21)

• Michał Klincewicz (Tilburg University / Jagiellonian University)
  Consequences of unexplainable machine learning for the notions of a trusted doctor and patient autonomy (11.03.21)

• Adrian Stencel (Jagiellonian University), Javier Suárez (Jagiellonian University)
  When you are forced to being nice. Multicellularity is more about coercion than about altruism (4.03.21)

• Nora Heinzelmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Higher-order uncertainty in bioethical judgements (25.02.21)

• Alex Broadbent (University of Johannesburg)
  Robo-epidemiology: Machine learning, causal inference and public health (28.01.21)

• Matt Bennett (University of Essex)
  When experts meet policy: Recommendations and judging trustworthiness (21.01.21)

• Bartosz Biskup (Jagiellonian University)
  Why marriage? Ungrounded essentialism in theories of marriage (07.01.21)

• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University)
  Personal Identity, Direction of Change, and the Right to Withdraw from Research: A Cross-linguistic Replication of Tobia (2016) (17.12.20)

• Adrian Stencel (Jagiellonian University) with the co-author
  Drug repurposing for COVID-19: The problem of excessive hypothesis testing (10.12.20)

• Przemysław Zawadzki (Uniwersytet Jagielloński)
  Personality and authenticity in light of the memory-modifying potential of optogenetics (26.11.20)

• Lee Elkin (Jagiellonian University)
  Normative Uncertainty Meets Social Choice Theory (12.11.20)

• Karolina Wiśniowska (Jagiellonian University)
  A data-driven argument in bioethics: the concept of dignity in academic journals specializing in Christian ethics (05.11.20)

• Is meta-analysis a reliable source of evidence for decisions in the clinic? (26.10.20)

• Marta Maj (Jagiellonian University)
  Attitudes toward emerging biotechnologies. What matters and why? (22.10.20)

• Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University), Ivar R. Hannikainen (Universidad de Granada)
  Normative vs. factual disagreement: Examining domain differences in dissent perception (15.10.20)

• Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University), Ivars Neiders (Riga Stradins University)
  Dying, ceasing to exist, and ‘what we are’ (08.10.20)

Academic year: 2019/2020

• Dries H. Bostyn (Ghent University)
  The Shape of Blame (19.06.20)

• Martin Zach (Charles University in Prague) with the co-author
  Are ABM epidemic models the models of actual mechanisms? (08.05.20)

• Jonathan Anomaly (University of Pennsylvania)
  What’s Wrong with Factory Farming? (09.03.20. cancelled)

• Lee Elkin (Jagiellonian University)
  Regret Averse Opinion Aggregation (23.01.20)

• Joanna Smolenski (CUNY)
  Germline Gene Editing and the Limits of Informed Consent (19.01.20)

• The meaning of causal claims in medicine: causal inferences and policy implications (09.01.20)

• Michał Białek (Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego)
  Intuitive utilitarianism: Hybrid model of moral judgements (12.12.19)

• Joanna Malinowska (UAM)
  Empathy in relations between people and social robots (04.12.19)

• Jan Piasecki (Jagiellonian University)
  The dilemmas of research ethics in the era of learning health‐care systems (14.11.19)

• Teresa Baron (University of Southampton)
  Double donor surrogacy and the substitution problem (07.11.19)

• Jeroen Hopster (Universität Graz)
  Climate Possibilities and Precautionary Principles (18.10.19)

• Konrad Rudnicki (University of Antwerp)
  The Liar lied. Experimental investigation of the Liar paradox (17.10.19)

• Pierrick Bourrat (Macquarie University, University of Sydney)
  Overview of the emergence and evolution of religion from a Darwinian perspective (10.10.19)

Academic year: 2018/2019

• Ilana Löwy (CNRS)
  Prenatal diagnosis and disability rights (03.09.19)

• Emilia Kaczmarek (University of Warsaw)
  How to distinguish reasonable medicalization from over-medicalization? (18.06.19)

• Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge)
  The Sciences of Sexual Desire (06.06.19)

• Inference from inconsistent empirical results (15.05.19)

• Olga Dryla (Jagiellonian University)
  Medical enhancement: descriptive aspect and initial normative findings (09.05.19)

• Jacob Stegenga (Cambridge)
  Medical Nihilism (07.05.19) [guest lecture co-hosted by INCET]

• Wojciech Załuski (Jagiellonian University)
  On two types of randomizations in distributive decisions (25.04.19)

• Wojciech Ciszewski (Jagiellonian University)
  In search of an adequate structure of the state neutrality principle (11.04.19)

• Maciej Juzaszek (Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego)
  Tort Liability without Taking Responsibility (27.03.19)

• Marcin Waligóra (Jagiellonian University)
  Is there evidence-based ethics? (21.03.19)