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BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498

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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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Funding opportunity – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) offer an opportunity to fund applicants’ own research fellowships at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) - a research centre within the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Expressions of interest should be submitted by 8 May 2024.

4-year PhD position at Jagiellonian University in Kraków in the NCN Preludium Bis project 'Emerging reproductive technologies meet philosophy: the non-identity problem, harm, and counterfactuals' led by Tomasz Żuradzki

Soon we begin new research project funded by Poland's National Science Centre (Narodowe Centrum Nauki) entitled "Emerging reproductive technologies meet philosophy: the non-identity problem, harm, and counterfactuals" as part of the Preludium BIS 4 call, number: 2022/47/O/HS1/02794, head of the project: dr hab. Tomasz Żuradzki, prof. UJ. The deadline for applications is 25 May 2024.

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25 of April 2024 - Bartosz Janik - Rules and interpretation: behavioral account

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Bartosz Janik is going to give a talk: "Rules and interpretation: behavioral account”. The seminar will take place on the 25th of April exceptionally at 3:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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18 of April 2024 – Tomasz Krawczyk – Meaningful inclusion? Influence of Research Institutions on Epistemic Injustice in Public Involvement

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Tomasz Krawczyk is going to give a talk: "Meaningful inclusion? Influence of Research Institutions on Epistemic Injustice in Public Involvement”. The seminar will take place on the 18th of April at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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11th of April 2024 — Jakub Petri — Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) UJ invites for its next research seminar enitled: "Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment" by Jakub Petri. The meeting takes place on the 11th of April 2024 r. at 5.00 p.m., Grodzka 52, room 25 and via Teams platform.

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4th of April 2024 — Edmond Awad — Online Serious Games as a Tool to Study Value Disagreement

Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) UJ invites for its next research seminar enitled: "Online Serious Games as a Tool to Study Value Disagreement" by Edmond Awad (University of Oxford). The meeting takes place on the 4th of April 2024 r. at 5.30 p.m., Grodzka 52, room 25 and via Teams platform.

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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

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Recent publications

New paper co-authored by Giulio Fornaroli

Giulio Fornaroli from INCET and Cristián Rettig published a new article: “Conflicts of Rights and Action-Guidingness” in Ratio Juris. This paper is a part of Making Up for What We Did: From Morality to the Law; From the Present to the Past project.

New paper co-authored by Vilius Dranseika

Vilius Dranseika from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Ivars Neiders, published a new article: "Is “terminally ill self-killing” suicide?” in Clinical Ethics

New paper co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski

Piotr Bystranowski from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Ivar Rodríguez Hannikainen, published a new article: "Justice before Expediency: Robust Intuitive Concern for Rights Protection in Criminalization Decisions” in Review of Philosophy and Psychology

New paper co-authored by Tomasz Żuradzki

Tomasz Żuradzki, Principal Investigator of BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article co-authored with Joanna Malinowska: "Towards the multileveled and processual conceptualisation of racialised individuals in biomedical research" in Synthese

New paper by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki

Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "The Disconnection That Wasn’t: Philosophy in Modern Bioethics from a Quantitative Perspective" in American Journal of Bioethics

New book co-edited by Piotr Bystranowski

Piotr Bystranowski from BIOUNCERTAINTY project co-edited a book: "Judicial Decision-Making: Integrating Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives”

New paper co-authored by Tomasz Żuradzki

Tomasz Żuradzki, Principal Investigator of BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Joanna Malinowska published a new article: "Reductionist methodology and the ambiguity of the categories of race and ethnicity in biomedical research: an exploratory study of recent evidence” in Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy

New paper co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika, and Tomasz Żuradzki

Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika, and Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article co-authored with a group of researchers: "Coordination and expertise foster legal textualism" in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki

Tomasz Żuradzki, Principal Investigator of BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "Rational framing effects and morally valid reasons" in Behavioral and Brain Sciences

New paper co-authored by Mariusz Maziarz

Mariusz Maziarz from BIOUNCERTAINTY project and Adrian Stencel, published a new article: "The failure of drug repurposing for COVID-19 as an effect of excessive hypothesis testing and weak mechanistic evidence” in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences.

New paper by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki

Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika & Tomasz Żuradzki from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, published a new article: "Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine: A topic-modeling study" in Bioethics