The conference organised by the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Oxford Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics JU explored the experimental philosophical bioethics ("bioxphi").

 

 

 

 

 

The keynote speakers were Joshua Knobe (Yale) and Joanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford). The workshop was 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.

Conference programme

Tuesday, 27th of June

ul. Gołębia 24 (room 52 on the 2nd floor)

18:00 - 20:00 Reception and Graduate Poster Session

Subramanya Prasad Chandrashekar (Norwegian University of Science and Technology): "Do larger losses come with a greater sense of choice? Sacrificial dilemmas and people’s choice perceptions"

Ho Man Him (Maastricht University): "Can, and should, we Morally Enhance Psychopathic Individuals?'"

Klaudyna Horniczak (Jagiellonian University): “Is Epistemic Status Gender-Biased? Gender as a Predictor of Testimonial Reliability Assessments in Violent Crimes?”

Carme Isern Mas (University of Granada): "Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare"

Mona Jahangiri (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich): "Neuroethics: Memory-dampening and the problem of personal identity"

Lisa Klümper (University of Wuppertal): "Those we love and those we protect - How intimate relationships affect judgments of various norm violations"

Robin Kopecký (Charles University): "Cognitive reflection in COVID-19 framing"

Dariusz Miękisz (Jagiellonian University): “Antidepressants, emotional numbness and moral judgment”

Daniel Martín (University of Granada) & Jon Rueda (University of Granada): “Normality and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction”

Jorge Suárez (University of Granada): "A Quasi-Experimental Approach to the Relationship between Legality and Moral Intuitions about Assisted Dying"

Christian Rodriguez Perez (University of Basel): "Ethical dilemmas in animal research - investigating decision maker’s attitudes"

Maryam Khan (University of Edinburgh) & Matti Wilks (University of Edinburgh): "Can An Exclusion Mindset Expand the Moral Circle?"

Wednesday, 28th of June

ul. Gołębia 24 (room 52 on the 2nd floor)

9:00 - 9:15 Registration

9:15 - 9:30 Welcome from Organizers & Sponsors 

9:30 - 10:25 [Keynote talk] Joanna Demaree-Cotton (University of Oxford): TBC 

10:25 - 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 - 11:05 Michał Białek (University of Wrocław): "Predictability drives moral impressions of agents"

11:05 - 11:25 Ivars Neiders (University of Latvia) & Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University): "Pluralism about death: inter- and intra-personal"

11:25 - 12:00 James Toomey (Pace University) & Jonathan Lewis (University of Manchester): "Advance Decisions and First- and Third-Person Judgments"

12:00 - 12:35 Sabine Salloch (Hannover Medical School): “The birth of the "digital turn" in bioethics?" 

12:35 - 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 - 14:50 Kathryn Francis (Keele University): ""It was way too real and it freaked me out a lot": Assessing and training moral decisions in Virtual Reality"

14:50 - 15:10 Piotr Bystranowski (Jagiellonian University): "The (legal) history of harm"

15:10 -15:30 Julia Kolak (Edward and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Clinical Ethics Fellow, Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics) & Joel Rowe (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai): "The Semantics of Abortion: Conceptual Unclarities and their Clinical, Legal, and Ethical Implications"

15:30 - 16:05 Blanca Rodríguez López (Complutense University of Madrid): "Coercion freedom and voluntariness in prenatal genetic choices"

16:05-16:40 Kristen Hens (University of Antwerp) & Andreas De Block (KU Leuven): "Two studies in experimental philosophy of medicine: lessons learned"

19:00 Dinner

Thursday, 29th of June

ul. Gołębia 24 (room 52 on the 2nd floor)

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee

9:30 - 9:50 Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University): "Human enhancement in bioethical discussions: a computational approach"

9:50 - 10:10 Vilius Dranseika (Jagiellonian University): "Qualitative and Quantitative Empirical Bioethics"

10:10 - 10:45 Edmond Awad (University of Exeter): "Computational Ethics"

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 - 11:35 Laura Cabrera (Pennsylvania State University): "Ethical Concerns about Psychiatric Electroceutical Interventions: Insights Gain from an Embedded Experiment Study"

11:35 - 11:55 Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada): "Why means matter morally: Understanding opposition to biotechnological enhancement"

11:55 - 12:15 Izabela Skoczeń (Jagiellonian University): "The anthropocentric bias of ecocide"

12:15 - 12:35 Madeline G. Reinecke (Yale University): "Mind perception and experimental bioethics"

12:35 - 14:10 Lunch break

14:10 - 14:45 Antoni Gomila (University of the Balearic Islands): "Coercion in mental health treatment"

14:45 - 15:20 Jim Everett (Kent University): "Trust in Artificial Moral Advisors"

15:20 - 15:40 Emilian Mihailov (University of Bucharest): "Acceptable Objectives of Empirical Research in Bioethics"

15:40 - 16:00 Brian Earp (University of Oxford): "Credit and Blame for Human-AI Jointly Created Outputs"

16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 - 17:15 [Keynote talk] Joshua Knobe (Yale University): "Advance Directives and Personal Identity"

17:15 - 17:30 Wrap-up

Friday, 30th of June

ul. Grodzka 52 (room 46 on the first floor)

9:00 - 14:00 Ivar Hannikainen (University of Granada): Methods workshop