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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.
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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.
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Metascience of Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine: visit our new project's website!
In our new project we employ methods characteristic for a distant reading, for example, topic modeling – a computational text-mining technique aimed at discovering hidden thematic compositions in large collections of documents. In our paper forthcoming in Bioethics, we used this method to analyze about 20,000 texts published since 1971 in seven English-language leading journals in bioethics and philosophy of medicine.
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Short visiting fellowships at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków welcomes applications for short (no longer than about two weeks) visiting fellowships for the year 2023. Submissions from Ukrainian scholars are especially welcome (also for longer stays). We particularly support applications from scholars who plan to come to Kraków to work jointly with us on applications to secure funding for a research project. We will review applications on an ongoing basis.
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A new project: Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health
On 1st November 2022 we begin a new research project 'Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health' co-funded by the European Commission and the Polish National Science Centre under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND grant as part of the POLONEZ BIS 1 programme, Principal investigator: Elena Popa, Mentor: Tomasz Żuradzki.
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A new project: Why we punish? A genealogical account
On 1st November 2022 we begin a new research project 'Why we punish? A genealogical account' co-funded by the European Commission and the Polish National Science Centre under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND grant as part of the POLONEZ BIS 1 call, Principal investigator: Francesco Testini, Mentor: Tomasz Żuradzki.
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The revision of the dominant classifications of medical aid-in-dying practices
In October 2022, we started a new research project funded by Poland's National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) as part of the Preludium BIS call, number: UMO-2021/43/O/HS1/02951; 1st of October 2022 - 30th of September 2026. PI of the project: dr hab. Tomasz Żuradzki, prof. UJ. PhD student: Maciej Piwowarski.
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22 August 2022 - John Lizza - Working Towards Consensus on Brain Death
We have the pleasure to invite you to another open research seminar! This week John P. Lizza will give a talk: "Working Towards Consensus on Brain Death". The seminar will take place on Monday, 22nd of August, at 2:00 PM in the room 25 of Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University and via MS Teams.
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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.
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9 June 2022 - Cristian Timmermann - Levels of Explicability for medical Artificial Intelligence: What do we need and what can we get?
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Cristian Timmermann will give a talk: "Levels of Explicability for medical Artificial Intelligence: What do we need and what can we get?". The seminar will take place on Thursday, 9th of June, at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 of Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University and via MS Teams.
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Conference 'Bioethics Meets Philosophy of Science'
The conference organized by the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University will explore practical, theoretical, and regulatory issues in biomedical research through the joint perspective of bioethics and philosophy of science. The conference will take place from the 20th till the 21st of May 2022. It will be held at Larisch Palace, Bracka 12, Kraków.
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13 April 2022 - Maciej Juzaszek: Precautionary principle as an encroachment on evidence-based law
We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Maciej Juzaszek will give a talk: "Precautionary principle as an encroachment on evidence-based law". The seminar will take place on Wednesday, 13th of April, at 17:30 p.m. in the room 25 of Institute of Philosophy of Jagiellonian University and via MS Teams.
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Funding opportunity - POLONEZ BIS Postdoctoral Fellowships
POLONEZ BIS 2 offers an opportunity to fund applicants’ own full-time employment at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) - a research centre within the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The duration of employment: 24 months. Researchers holding PhD are eligible for applying. Internal deadline: 30 May 2022. Expressions of interest should be submitted by emailing incet@uj.edu.pl by May 9, 2022 with 1) a CV, and 2) a short research proposal (max. 2 pages).
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