#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
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23 October 2025 – Emily McTernan – Two conceptions of recognition respect: More Goffman, less Kant
20.10.2025
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Emily McTernan will deliver a talk "Two conceptions of recognition respect: More Goffman, less Kant". The meeting will take place on October 23 at 5:00 PM in room 25 at 52 Grodzka Street and via the MS Teams platform.
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23 October 2025 – Lara Kirfel – Thinking about what's possible
20.10.2025
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Lara Kirfel will deliver a talk "Thinking about what's possible". The meeting will take place on October 23 at 6:15 PM in room 25 at 52 Grodzka Street and via the MS Teams platform.
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8 October 2025 – Björn Lundgren – Three Accounts of Risk
07.10.2025
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Björn Lundgren will deliver a talk "Three Accounts of Risk". The meeting will take place exceptionally on October 8 at 2:30 PM in room 25 at 52 Grodzka Street and via the MS Teams platform.
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7 July 2025 – Workshop on fake science
06.07.2025
The “Workshop on Fake Science” will take place on Monday, July 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM, at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Grodzka 52, Room 25, and will also be accessible via the MS Teams platform. The presentation will be delivered mostly by “scientific detectives”, whose work is featured in a recent article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00212-1.
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10 July 2025 – Drew Johnson – The Problems of Certainty in Public Discourse
02.07.2025
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Drew Johnson is going to give a talk title The Problems of Certainty in Public Discourse. The seminar will take place on the 10th of July at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
Recent publications
New paper by Giulio Fornaroli
Giulio Fornaroli from INCET published a new article: "On corrective and distributive requirements: The case of the beneficiary pays principle” in the Philosophical Quarterly
Artykuł na portalu EurekAlert! współautorstwa Tomasza Żuradzkiego
Tomasz Żuradzki from INCET along with Joanna K. Malinowska published article in EurekAlert! calling for reforming the use of ethnoracial categories in biomedical research
New chapter by Izabela Skoczeń
Izabela Skoczeń, former member of BIOUNCERTAINTY published chapter: “From Lying to Blaming and Perjury: Deceptive Implicatures in the Courtroom and the Materiality Requirement” in the book entitled Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Lying
New paper by Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski and Tomasz Żuradzki
Vilius Dranseika, Piotr Bystranowski and Tomasz Żuradzki from INCET published a new article: "Journal of Medical Ethics at 50: a data-driven history" in Journal of Medical Ethics
New chapter by Maciej Próchnicki
Maciej Próchnicki, former member of the BIOUNCERTAINTY project published chapter: “Normative folk psychology and legal practice*” in the book entitled Practice Theory and Law
New paper by Elena Popa
Elena Popa from INCET published a new article "Decision Making, Values and (Dis)Trust in Science: Two Cases from Public Health" in The Science and Art of Simulation
New paper by Elena Popa
Elena Popa from INCET published a new article "Just pluralism: thinking about concepts of mental disorder in global context" in Synthese
Statement signed by Vilius Dranseika
Vilius Dranseika from INCET co-authored a statement: "Genital Modifications in Prepubescent Minors: When May Clinicians Ethically Proceed?" published in American Journal of Bioethics
New paper co-authored by Vilius Dranseika
Vilius Dranseika from INCET with Braeden Hall and other authors, published a new article: "Registered Replication Report: A Large Multilab Cross-Cultural Conceptual Replication of Turri et al. (2015)" in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
New paper co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski
Piotr Bystranowski from INCET, published with Carme Isen-Mes, Jon Rueda, and Ivar Hannikainen a new paper: "Does Momentary Outcome-Based Reflection Shape Bioethical Views? A Pre-Post Intervention Design" in Cognitive Science
New paper by Callum McRae
Callum MacRae from INCET published a new article "Does domination require unequal power?" in The Philosophical Quarterly
