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5th November 2020: Research seminar online - Karolina Wiśniowska (Jagiellonian University): A data-driven argument in bioethics: the concept of dignity in academic journals specializing in Christian ethics
We have the pleasure to invite you to a research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. The subject of the seminar is 'A data-driven argument in bioethics: the concept of dignity in academic journals specializing in Christian ethics' and it will be delivered by Karolina Wiśniowska (Jagiellonian University). The seminar will take place on Thursday, 5th of November, at 5:30pm on MS Teams (link below).
Abstract: In this paper, we use an innovative, empirical, and – as yet – rarely applied method in bioethics, namely corpus analysis, which is commonly used in literature studies (Moretti 2013), linguistics (Baker 2006), and has been recently discussed in the context of the history of ideas (Betti and van den Berg 2016) and philosophy of science (Pence and Ramsey 2018). In contrast to other areas of empirical bioethics, which very often involve surveying folk participants with questionnaires aimed at eliciting their intuitions, our method here connects distant reading (a quantitative approach to the large corpus within Christian ethics) with close reading (qualitative analysis of selected documents or their fragments with the word “dignity”) of scholarly papers. By demonstrating the ambiguity of the concept of dignity discernible when analyzing its use in normative contexts, our work is a novel contribution to the debates among the historians of ideas about conceptual identity and conceptual drift. The use of the word “dignity” in Christian ethics journals shows that the concept of dignity is a “concept constellation” composed of many main elements or aspects (individual, solidarity, secular).
Karolina Wiśniowska: PhD student at the Doctoral School of Humanities at the Jagiellonian University. Karolina graduated from the Faculty of Law and is currently completing her second degree studies in philosophy in the Inter-Faculty Studies in the Humanities programme. She is also an assistant researcher in the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics in the BIOUNCERTAINTY project.
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