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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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7th of December – Wojciech Kaftański – The Moral Psychology of Social Comparison: Nature and Normativity: Aims, Ambitions, and Methodology

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Wojciech Kaftański is going to give a talk: "The Moral Psychology of Social Comparison: Nature and Normativity: Aims, Ambitions, and Methodology”. The seminar will take place on 7th of December at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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23rd of November 2023 – Giulio Fornaroli – Doxastic Wrongs, Freedom of the Mind, and the Right to Wrong Others (in Our Mind)

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Giulio Fornaroli is going to give a talk: "Doxastic Wrongs, Freedom of the Mind, and the Right to Wrong Others (in Our Mind)”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 23rd of November at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

Postdoctoral researcher position at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET)

Rector of the Jagiellonian University announces a selection procedure for the position of postdoctoral researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) in the project „New methods in philosophical bioethics”

Call for Abstracts for the Bioethics Meets Political Philosophy (26-27th of January 2024)

We are accepting submissions for the upcoming Bioethics Meets Political Philosophy conference which is going to be held on January 26-27th 2024 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The deadline for CFA is set for 10th of November 2023

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26th of October 2023 - Elena Popa & Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz - Democratic Deliberation and Trust in Science: Lessons from Systemic Approaches

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. Elena Popa & Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz are going to give a talk: "Democratic Deliberation and Trust in Science: Lessons from Systemic Approaches”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 26th of October at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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12 October 2023 - Dariusz Miękisz - Ascribing moral responsibility and decision-making capacity to agents with various emotional/intellectual disturbances

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. This week Dariusz Miękisz is going to give a talk: "Ascribing moral responsibility and decision-making capacity to agents with various emotional/intellectual disturbances”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 12th of October at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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5th of October 2023 - Jay Zameska - Can contractualists complain about risk?

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar. This week Jay Zameska, new INCET member is going to give a talk: "Can contractualists complain about risk?”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 5th of October at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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Recent publications

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