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BIOUNCERTAINTY - ERC Starting Grant no. 805498
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27-29th of June 2023
The conference organised on the 27-29th of June 2023 by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU will explore the experimental philosophical bioethics ("bioxphi").
The confirmed keynote speakers will be Joshua Knobe (Yale) and Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford). The workshop is co-sponsored by and made possible through support from the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University (directed by Tomasz Żuradzki), the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics (directed by Stephen Latham), and the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics (led by Julian Savulescu and Roger Crisp).
Experimental philosophical bioethics ("bioxphi") uses the tools of cognitive science, moral psychology, and experimental philosophy to investigate topics that are traditionally of interest to bioethicists, with an eye to contributing to substantive normative debates in medical ethics and related areas. Example papers can be found at the PhilPapers page for experimental philosophy: bioethics.
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[Conference is organised only in Polish]
27th of January 2023
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20-22nd of May 2022
The conference organized by Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) at the Jagiellonian University explored practical, theoretical, and regulatory issues in biomedical research through the joint perspective of bioethics and philosophy of science.
Schedule
Friday, May 20, 2022
- 9.00-9.30 Registration and Welcome
- 9.30-10.20 Maxence Gaillard (Université Catholique de Louvain): "Ontological foundations of the ethical discourse on organoid research"
- 10.20-11.10 Davide Battisti (University of Milan): "Attitudes, intentions, and procreative responsibility in assisted reproduction"
- 11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
- 11.40-12.30 Cristina Amoretti (University of Genoa) & Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna): "Evidence-based, value-laden, or cognitively biased? The case of the failure of Astrazeneca Covid-19 Vaccine”
- 12.30-14.00 Lunch Break
- 14.00-15.30 Keynote Talk: Rachel Ankeny (University of Adelaide): “Causation and Explanation in Overdiagnosis: Epistemic and Ethical implications”
- 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.50 Valentina Petrolini (University of the Basque Country) & Davide Serpico (Jagiellonian University): "Categories versus dimensions in psychiatry: A hybrid and value-sensitive alternative"
- 16.50-17.40 Jon Rueda (University of Granada): "The science of human genetic enhancement: From myth to close reality?"
Saturday, May 21, 2022
- 9.30-10.20 Jordan Parsons (University of Bristol): "Nothing About Us Without Us? The challenges of involving people with cognitive impairments in biomedical research"
- 10.20-11.10 Charlotte Zemmel (University of Cambridge): "Holistic inductive risk management in clinical trials"
- 11.10-11.40 Coffee Break
- 11.40-12.30 Joanna Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University): "Concept of racialisation in biomedical research: a step toward the ethical and credible use of racial classifications"
- 12.30-14.00 Lunch Break
- 14.00-15.30 Keynote Talk: Sven Hansson (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm): “Causality and Morality”
- 15.30-16.00 Coffee Break
- 16.00-16.50 Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University): "How to count conjoined twins?"
Short description
The conference explored practical, theoretical, and regulatory issues in biomedical research through the joint perspective of bioethics and philosophy of science.
The solution to many biomedical questions often lies at the intersection of theory and practice. On the one hand, philosophy of science can inform bioethical and legal debates by advancing our theoretical understanding of biomedical issues, helping decide between alternative ethical positions, or even undermining a moral conjecture on an empirical basis. On the other hand, philosophy of science can benefit from a bioethical perspective, as many scientific debates and disagreements do not just depend on empirical results or theoretical aspects, but also require the analysis of moral, social, and political factors and values.
Typical questions involving this sort of interdisciplinary effort are, for instance: To what extent do ethical principles limit technological advancements and research, e.g., in case of human embryos or embryonic models? How do inclusion and exclusion criteria in clinical trials need to balance the trade-off between statistical inferences and ethical considerations? How can philosophical analysis of the genetic and epigenetic basis of human diseases reframe questions regarding reproductive decision and prevention? May work in philosophy of comparative psychology change the way scientists characterize, operationalize, and interpret cognitive similarities and differences among species? Can the acceptance or refutation of categories and concepts depend on ethical factors? Are there ethical reasons to revise concepts that are widely used in biomedical sciences, such as race, gender, sex, disease, normality, and dysfunction?
List of abstracts
List of accepted abstractsScientific Committee
- Teresa Baron (Czech Academy of Sciences);
- Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University);
- Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University);
- Włodzimierz Galewicz (Jagiellonian University);
- Joanna K. Malinowska (Adam Mickiewicz University);
- Piotr G. Nowak (Jagiellonian University);
- Valentina Petrolini (University of Basque Country);
- Tomasz Rzepiński (Adam Mickiewicz University);
- Adrian Stencel (Jagiellonian University);
- Marcin Waligóra (Jagiellonian University, Medical College).
Organizing Committee
- Mariusz Maziarz;
- Maciej Piwowarski;
- Davide Serpico;
- Katarzyna Żebrowska;
- Tomasz Żuradzki.
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28-29th of November 2019
The Department of Professional Ethics at the Institute of Philosophy UJ, in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics UJ and the Polish Bioethics Society organised a conference entitled “Protection of data in scientific research”. The aim of the conference was to discuss the complex problems of the right to privacy and the right for personal data protection faced by researchers in different disciplines of science.
The working language of the conference will be Polish.
PROGRAM
28 listopada 2019 (Collegium Maius, Libraria)
14.55-15.05 – rejestracja uczestników konferencji
15.05-15.15 – otwarcie konferencji
15.15-16.00 – prof. dr hab. Jerzy Brzeziński „Badania eksperymentalne w psychologii: standardy etyczne versus standardy metodologiczne”
16.00-16.45 – prof. dr hab. prof. Tomasz Grzyb „Dylematy ulicznego psychologa. Ochrona danych osobowych uczestników badania w warunkach eksperymentu terenowego”
16.45-17.30 – dr hab. Michał Wierzchoń, prof. UJ „Ochrona danych osobowych w projektach realizowanych w konsorcjach: przypadek sieci SkuldNet poświęconej badaniom neuronalnej architektury świadomości”
17.30-18.15 – dyskusja
18.15-18.30 – przerwa kawowa
18.30-19.15 – Antoni Sułek „Dylematy badacza społecznego związane z respektowaniem autonomii i prywatności ludzi i zbiorowości”
19.15-20.00 – dr hab. Hubert Kaszyński, prof. UJ „Dylematy ochrony prywatności osób chorych psychicznie uczestniczących w badaniach naukowych”
20.00-20.30 - dyskusja
29 listopada 2019 (Collegium Maius, sala im. Michała Bobrzyńskiego)
10.25-10.30 – otwarcie drugiego dnia konferencji
10.30-11.15 – prof. dr hab. n. med. Michał Witt „Czy dane genetyczne da się zabezpieczyć?”
11.15-12.00 – dr hab. Jakub Pawlikowski „Ochrona danych w podmiotach biobankujących ludzki materiał biologiczny dla celów badań naukowych”
12.00-12.45 – dr hab. Joanna Haberko, prof. UAM „Dopuszczalność prowadzenia badań naukowych na ludzkim materiale biologicznym pochodzącym z amputowanych kończyn osób żyjących oraz ze zwłok”
12.45-13.30 – dyskusja
13.30-15.30 – Walne Zgromadzenie PTB
15.30-17.00 – przerwa obiadowa
17.00-17.45 – dr hab. n. med. Joanna Didkowska (tytuł wystąpienia zostanie uzupełniony w późniejszym terminie)
17.45-18.30 – dr n. med. Piotr Iwanowski „Badania kliniczne leków – dostęp do informacji, dostęp do danych”
18.30-19.00 – dyskusja
19.45 – uroczysty bankiet
30 listopada 2019 r. (Collegium Maius, sala im. Michała Bobrzyńskiego)
10.25-10.30 – otwarcie trzeciego dnia konferencji
10.30-11.15 – prof. dr hab. Wojciech Załuski „Prawo do prywatności: ujęcia krytyczne”
11.15-12.00 – dr hab. Maria Boratyńska „Poufność danych zdrowotnych pacjentów o ograniczonej bądź wyłączonej kompetencji decyzyjnej”
12.00-12.30 – dyskusja
12.30-12.45 – przerwa kawowa
12.45-13.30 – dr Dorota Krekora-Zając „Wtórne wykorzystanie danych osobowych przez biobanki”
13.30-14.15 – dr hab. Wojciech Cyrul „Prawne aspekty ochrony danych w badaniach klinicznych”
14.15 - 15.00 - dyskusja
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4th-5th April 2019
Międzynarodowa konferencja 'Evidence in Law and Ethics' (ELE2019)
4-5 April 2019
The Institute of Philosophy, the Department of Legal Theory, the Centre for Law, Language and Philosophy, and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at the Jagiellonian University organize the workshop on “Evidence in Law and Ethics” to be held on the 4-5th of April 2019 in Kraków.
Keynote speakers:
Christian Dahlman (Lund)
Martin Smith (Edinburgh)
Topics:
- Epistemic risk and the role of non-epistemic values in ethical and legal evidential reasoning.
- Reasonable doubt, higher-order evidence, statistical evidence, evidentiary thresholds in law and ethics.
- Models of evidential reasoning, standards of proof, and evidence-based heuristics in law and ethics.
- The concept of testimony in ethical vs legal contexts.
- Epistemology of legal (esp. court) disagreement.
- The ethics of belief of laymen, experts, lawyers and the judicial system.
Venue: Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration
ul. Bracka 12, Kraków (Sale Reprezentacyjne)
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
4 IV 2019 (Thursday) – DAY ONE
9:30-10:00 – Coffee, registration
10:00 – Workshop opening
10:10-11:10
Christian Dahlman (Lund) „Naked Statistical Evidence and the Futility of Lawful Conduct”
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – Session I
Amit Pundik (Tel Aviv) „Predictive Evidence and Unpredictable Freedom”
Maciej Dybowski, Weronika Dzięgielewska & Wojciech Rzepiński (Poznań) „Reclaiming Evidence – On Exchanging Reasons in Legal Practice”
Piotr Bystranowski, Bartosz Janik, Maciej Próchnicki (Kraków) „Certainty and punishment. An empirical study on the dimensions of evidence”
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-16:30 – Session II
Marcin Romanowicz (Warszawa) „Forensic Neuropsychology: Are We There Finally?”
Julia Wesołowska (Kraków) „The Theory of Mind of Law. The Interpretation of Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom”
Felix Bräuer & Kevin Baum (Saarlandes) „Trusting Artificial Experts”
Timothy Madigan (Rochester, NY) „W.K. Clifford and “The Ethics of Belief”: Then and Now”
5 IV 2019 (Friday) – DAY TWO
10.00-10.10 Coffee
10:10-11:10
Martin Smith (Edinburgh) „Accuracy, Proof and the Right Against Wrongful Conviction”
11:10-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:30 – Session III
Eva Schmidt (Zurich), Andreas Sesing (Saarland), Maximilian Köhl (Saarland) „Bare Statistical Evidence and the Legitimacy of Software-Based Judicial Decisions”
Marvin Backes (St Andrews) „There is No Epistemic Mileage in Legal Cases”
12:30 -14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:30 – Session IV
Marcin Waligóra (Kraków) „How evidence shape research ethics. A case of pediatric oncology”
Tomasz Herok (Lancaster) „If intuitions are used as evidence in ethics, why are so many of its claims counter-intuitive? The case of ‚after-birth abortion'”.
Tomasz Żuradzki (Kraków) „Reporting Incidental Findings under Uncertainty”
15:30-16:00 Farewell
We invite you to take a look at the book of abstracts.
Registration: There is NO registration for this event. The event is open to the general public. However, if you wish to attend, please send a short notice to organizers.
Organizers: Adam Dyrda (adam.dyrda@uj.edu.pl) and Tomasz Żuradzki (t.zuradzki@uj.edu.pl).
Any inquiries about the workshop should be directed to both organizers with the subject line containing “Evidence in Law and Ethics”.
Sponsors: The workshop has received funding from the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland – National Programme for the Development of Humanities (grant agreement N0 0068/NPRH4/H2b/83/2016) and from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 805498).
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8th-9th March 2019
8-9th of March 2019
A symposium "Legal and ethical status of guidelines for medical practice" was held in Krakow on March 8-9, 2019, organized by the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University and the Polish Bioethical Society. The conference was an opportunity to discuss the problems arising from creation of guidelines from the point of view of medicine, law and ethics, in particular the recommendations and positions formulated by Polish medical societies.
The symposium "Legal and ethical status of medical practice guidelines" was financed from the funds available from the research project "Justice in healthcare" No. 2013/08 / A / HS1 / 00079. It was co-organized by the Polish Bioethical Society, the Interdisciplinary Center of Ethics at the Jagiellonian University and the Department of Professional Ethics Research at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.The meeting took place in the hall of Roman Ingarden (No. 25) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University on ul. Grodzka 52 in Krakow.
Program
8 III Friday (14.30 - 19.30)
14.45-15.30 - prof. dr hab. Olga Haus "Incidental findings" in diagnostic genetic tests. What and how to inform patients? "
15.30-16.45 - prof. dr hab. Maciej Małecki "Dilemmas in the process of creating medical guidelines - participant's reflections"
16.45-17.30 - prof. dr hab. Włodzimierz Galewicz "On the normative status of medical practice guidelines"
17.30-17.45 - coffee break
17.45-18.30 - dr Wiktoria Leśniak "The strength of recommendations and preferences of the authors of the guidelines. Does the GRADE methodology help users? "
18.30-19.15 - prof. dr hab. Joanna Haberko "Standards of practicing a profession as part of medically assisted procreation procedures"
9 III Saturday (10.30-15.30)
10.45-11.30 - prof. dr hab. Jan Dobrogowski "Perspectives of Pain Medicine - Quality Standards of Treatment"
11.30-12.15 - dr Paweł Skuczyński "Practice guidelines as an autonomous regulation based on knowledge between law and morality"
12.15-13.00 - dr Tomasz Widłak "Compliance with medical knowledge as a premise for legal assessment of medical activities"
13.00-13.30 - coffee break
13.30-14.15 - prof. dr hab. Romuald Bohatyrewicz "Diagnosis of irreversible cardiac arrest preceding organ procurement - controversy"
14.15-15.00 - prosecutor Anna Filipek-Woźniak "Resignation from futile therapy and diagnosis of irreversible cardiac arrest preceding organ procurement. Prosecutor's perspective ".
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7th-8th December 2018
The subject of the conference: "Sickness and Responsibility", covers two main thematic areas. The first of them is a set of questions related to responsibility for the disease: are we responsible to some extent for our behavior and health conditions, and if so, should we also be held accountable for them in some way. The second, to which the conference was devoted, concerns rather responsibility in the disease: whether and to what extent a sick person, e.g. suffering from a mental disorder, is responsible and can be held responsible for how they behave in their illness and often also due to illness. The two highlighted subjects often strongly relate to each other - such as when we consider the moral or legal responsibility of addicts - but they can also be considered separately. We would like each of them to be exposed from different, but complementary points of view: ethical, legal, medical and psychological.
The Symposium "Sickness and Responsibility", co-organized by the Polish Bioethical Society, the Interdisciplinary Center of Ethics at the Jagiellonian University and the Department of Professional Ethics Research at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University, was an opportunity for such interdisciplinary discussion. The meeting took place in the hall of Roman Ingarden (No. 25) at the Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University on ul. Grodzka 52 in Krakow. Some conference texts can be viewed in the INCET database.
PROGRAM
7 XII Friday (14.30 - 19.30)
14.30 - opening of the symposium
14.45-15.45
Professor dr hab. Bogdan de Barbaro "Can illness be a good?"
15.45-16.45
Professor dr hab. Dominika Dudek "Moral responsibility - psychiatrist's reflections"
16.45-17.00
Speech by Anna Liberadzka, activist of the "Open Doors" Association
17.00-17.30 - coffee break
17.30-18.30
Professor dr hab. Beata Tobiasz-Adamczyk "Life with a disease in a sociological perspective"
18.30-19.30
Dr Ewa Habzda-Siwek "Disease as a co-responsibility of a doctor and patient"
XII Saturday (10.00-14.30)
10.00-11.00
Professor dr hab. Małgorzata Opoczyńska-Morasiewicz "Homo patiens. On the other side of the word"
11.00-12.00
Dr hab. Anna Golonka "Sanity of the offender in the context of difficulties related to the assessment of selected atypical conditions"
12.00-12.30 coffee break
12.30-13.30
Professor dr hab. Piotr Kardas "Excessively risky behavior and self-exposure to the risk of harm or illness and the possibility of incurring criminal liability"
13.30 -14.30
Professor dr hab. Wojciech Załuski "Models of criminal liability of the insane"
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2nd of December 2017
Normative aspects of refusal to vaccinate - symposium of the Polish Bioethical Society and the Interdisciplinary Center of Ethics at the Jagiellonian University, December 2, 2017, Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University.
Plan
BLOCK 1: 10.00 - 12.10
10.00-10.25 prof. dr hab. Romuald Krajewski (Supreme Medical Chamber) - "Principles for doctors in relations with patients who refuse effective treatment or prevention"
10.25-10.50 dr. Iwona Paradowska-Stankiewicz (Head of the Epidemiology Laboratory, VPD, Department of Epidemiology, National Institute of Public Health - National Institute of Hygiene) - "Refusal to consent to vaccination seen through the eyes of an epidemiologist"
10.50 -11.15 dr hab. Joanna Haberko (UAM) - "Parental rights to decide on important matters of the child and the obligation to vaccinate"
11.15-11.40 dr Dobrochna Bach Golecka (UW) - "Regulations on preventive vaccinations in international law and European Union law";
11.40-12.10 - 30 minutes of summary discussion
12.10-13.30 Coffee break
BLOCK 2: 13.30-15.15
13.30-13.55 dr hab. Agnieszka Barczak-Oplustil (UJ) - "Criminal law aspects of refusal of vaccination consent"
13.55-14.20 dr Tomasz Żuradzki (UJ) - "Cognitive mechanisms for rejecting scientific consensus: vaccination case"
14.20-14.45 dr hab. Marek Czarkowski (WUM) - "Permissibility to use mandatory vaccinations"
14.45-15.15 - 30 minutes of the summary discussion