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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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7th of March 2024 – Maciej Próchnicki – The Robin Hood effect: The effect of income on perceived fairness of mutual compensation in tort damages
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7th of March 2024 – Maciej Próchnicki – The Robin Hood effect: The effect of income on perceived fairness of mutual compensation in tort damages

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics UJ (INCET) invites for its next research seminar entitled "The Robin Hood effect: The effect of income on perceived fairness of mutual compensation in tort damages" by Maciej Próchnicki. The meeting takes place on the 7th of March 2024 r. 5:30, Grodzkiej 52, room 25, Kraków and via Teams
29th of February 2024 – Vilius Dranseika – What Does Bioethics Engage With? A Case Study in Citation Analysis
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29th of February 2024 – Vilius Dranseika – What Does Bioethics Engage With? A Case Study in Citation Analysis

INCET invites for its next research seminar entitled "What Does Bioethics Engage With? A Case Study in Citation Analysis" by Vilius Dranseika. The meeting takes place on 29th of February at 5:30 p.m., room 25, Grodzka 52 and via MS Teams.
okładka czasopisma Diametros

"Diametros" - call for papers for a special issue

Diametros invites scholars and researchers to contribute to a special issue: "Bioethics meets political philosophy". The deadline is the 30th of April 2024.
22nd of February 2024 – Callum Macrae – Does Domination Require Unequal Power?
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22nd of February 2024 – Callum Macrae – Does Domination Require Unequal Power?

INCET invites for its next research seminar entitled "Does Domination Require Unequal Power?" by Callum Macrae. The meeting takes place on 22nd of February at 5:30 p.m., room 25, Grodzka 52 and via MS Teams.
The fifth conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, 9-10 September 2024: call for papers

The fifth conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science, 9-10 September 2024: call for papers

The East European Network for Philosophy of Science (EENPS), in co-operation with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, announces the fifth conference of the East European Network for Philosophy of Science in Kraków to be held on September 9-10th 2024. The conference is fully in person. CFP deadline: 22nd February 2024
Call for Abstracts for the Wronging and Making Right: The Morality and Law of Remedial Practices conference (17-19 June 2024)

Call for Abstracts for the Wronging and Making Right: The Morality and Law of Remedial Practices conference (17-19 June 2024)

We are accepting submissions for the upcoming Wronging and Making Right: The Morality and Law of Remedial Practices conference which is going to be held on June 17-19th 2024 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The deadline for CFA is set for 1st of March 2023
1st of Ferbuary 2024 – Christoph Merdes – Christoph Merdes: Rational Injustice, Irrational Justice?
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1st of Ferbuary 2024 – Christoph Merdes – Christoph Merdes: Rational Injustice, Irrational Justice?

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Christoph Merdes is going to give a talk: "Rational Injustice, Irrational Justice?”. The seminar will take place on the 1st of February at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.
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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.
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New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki & Vilius Dranseika: Reasons to Genome Edit and Metaphysical Essentialism about Human Identity

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.
okładka czasopisma Law and bioesciences

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.
okładka czasopisma Law and bioesciences

New publication by Vilius Dranseika: Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs

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.
okładka czasopisma Law and bioesciences

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.
okładka czasopisma Law and bioesciences

Proxy Crimes - a new article co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski

“Proxy crimes” is a phrase loosely used to refer to conduct that is punished only as a means to target other harmful conduct. Many criminal law scholars find the criminalization of this type of conduct unjustifiable from a retributivist perspective, while others note that proxy criminalization can contribute to mass incarceration and overcriminalization. Given the importance of these problems, a systematic analysis of proxy crimes, currently absent in the criminal law literature, is needed.
okładka czasopisma Law and bioesciences

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).
okładka czasopisma History and Philosophy of Science

Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions? - a new article by Mariusz Maziarz

Literature-based meta-analysis is a standard technique applied to pool results of individual studies used in medicine and social sciences. It has been criticized for being too malleable to constrain results, averaging incomparable values, lacking a measure of evidence's strength, and problems with a systematic bias of individual studies. We argue against using literature-based meta-analysis of RCTs to assess treatment efficacy and show that therapeutic decisions based on meta-analytic average are not optimal given the full scope of existing evidence.
okładka czasopisma Ergo

Regret Averse Opinion Aggregation - a new publication by Lee Elkin

It is often suggested that when opinions differ among individuals in a group, the opinions should be aggregated to form a compromise. This paper compares two approaches to aggregating opinions, linear pooling and what I call opinion agglomeration. In evaluating both strategies, I propose a pragmatic criterion, No Regrets, entailing that an aggregation strategy should prevent groups from buying and selling bets on events at prices regretted by their members.
okładka czasopisma Ergo

Experimental Philosophical Bioethics and Normative Inference - a new article co-authored by Vilius Dranseika

This paper explores an emerging sub-field of both empirical bioethics and experimental philosophy, which has been called “experimental philosophical bioethics” (bioxphi). As an empirical discipline, bioxphi adopts the methods of experimental moral psychology and cognitive science; it does so to make sense of the eliciting factors and underlying cognitive processes that shape people’s moral judgments, particularly about real-world matters of bioethical concern.
okładka czasopisma Ergo

Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy - A new publication co-authored by Vilius Dranseika

A striking feature of our memories of the personal past is that they involve different visual perspectives: one sometimes recalls past events from one’s original point of view (a field perspective), but one sometimes recalls them from an external point of view (an observer perspective). In philosophy, observer memories are often seen as being less than fully genuine and as being necessarily false or distorted. This paper looks at whether laypeople share the standard philosophical view by applying the methods of experimental philosophy.

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