#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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23rd of October 2026 — dr Amber Comer — Life Unworthy of Life: Professional Reorientation and the Object of Protection in Nazi Medicine
20.10.2026
The Jagiellonian University Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) invites you to another open research seminar! Dr. Amber Comer will give a talk on "Life Unworthy of Life: Professional Reorientation and the Object of Protection in Nazi Medicine." The meeting takes place on October 23, 2026, at 12:00 PM in room 25 at 52 Grodzka Street (Collegium Broscianum) and also via MS Teams.
Piotr Bystranowski from INCET awarded an ERC Starting Grant!
04.09.2026
On 3 September 2026, the European Research Council (ERC) announced the recipients of its Starting Grants for early-career researchers. Among them is Piotr Bystranowski from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University. His project, “Normative Ignorance in Complex Societies: Cognition, Interaction, and Judgment for Law and Policy” (NormasNescio), will receive €1.5 million in funding.
Invitation to apply for an ERC Starting Grant 2027 with the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University in Kraków
18.06.2026
We invite expressions of interest from researchers intending to apply for an ERC Starting Grant in the 2027 call. We welcome proposals in philosophy, bioethics, philosophy of medicine, political philosophy, experimental philosophy, and related interdisciplinary fields, including projects at the intersection of philosophy and the social sciences, medicine, psychology, law, or data science.
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Programme of the "Incentivized Experiments on Normative Systems" conference
19.05.2026
Conference "Incentivized Experiments on Normative Systems" organised by Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics of JU will take place on the 25-26 of May 2026 in Kraków (Rynek Główny 34). Online attendance available
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Programme of the "Issues in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine" conference
14.05.2026
Conference "Issues in Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine" organised by the Nordic-Baltic Network for Philosophy of Medicine and Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics of JU will take place on the 4-5 of June 2026 in Kraków
Recent publications
New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki has published a new paper "Against the default analysis and reporting of ethno-racial data in biomedical research" in "Ethics, Medicine and Public Health"
New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki has published a new article titled "The varieties of precaution: Which risks, Whose attitudes?" in the journal "Animal Sentience"
New paper by Vilius Dranseika
Vilius Dranseika has published a new article titled "Mereological implications of the ethics of pregnancy" in the Journal of Medical Ethics
New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki has published a new article "Ethics-first metaphysics: normative considerations as evidence for ontological commitments" in the Journal of Medical Ethics
New paper by Wojciech Kaftański
Wojeciech Kaftański has published a new article "Social comparison in moral education" in the Journal of Moral Education
New paper co-authored by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki, Marta Maj, and Paulina Szwed have published a new article "Risky choice framing effects, doing vs. allowing harm, and fairness in uncertain prospects" in the journal Synthese
New paper by Calluma MacRae
Callum MacRae published the paper “Towards a Rawlsian Theory of Productive Justice” in Free & Equal: A Journal of Ethics and Public Affairs.
New publication co-authored by Vilius Draseika
Vilius Dranseika and three co-authors have published a new article, "Causally Defective Remembering: A Study on the Folk Concept of Memory," in Philosophical Psychology.
New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki
Tomasz Żuradzki, Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET), has published a new article, "Future-Oriented Chance Prioritarianism: Survival Prospects as the Distributive Currency," in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy.
New paper co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski
Piotr Bystranowski from INCET published with Adam Dyrda a new chapter: “What grounds the rule of recognition? Postulates for experimental Hartian legal positivism” in the Ethics of Institutional Beliefs: From Theoretical to Empirical
New paper by Giulio Fornaroli
Giulio Fornaroli from INCET published a new article "Making Up for What? Slavny on Corrections and Compensation" in Analysis
