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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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Piotr Bystranowski received a scholarship from the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young scholars

Piotr Bystranowski from the BIOUNCERTAINTY received a scholarship from the Minister of Education and Science for outstanding young scholars with significant achievements in their scientific activity.

27-30th of June – Yale-Oxford-Jagiellonian BioXPhi Summit

We are sharing the programme along with the information about the registration for the upcoming Yale-Oxford-Jagiellonian BioXPhi Summit which is going to take place in Kraków on 27th-30th of June

A new project funded by the National Science Centre: Emerging reproductive technologies meet philosophy: the non-identity problem, harm, and counterfactuals

On 1st of October 2023 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.

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22nd of June 2023 – Piotr Nowak – The death of an organism and death as the loss of moral status. Does the organismal superposition problem challenge the first, while nihilism challenges the second?

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. Next week Piotr Nowak give a talk: "The death of an organism and death as the loss of moral status. Does the organismal superposition problem challenge the first, while nihilism challenges the second?”. The seminar will take place on Thursday 22nd of June at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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20th of June 2023 – Piotr Bystranowski – Normative ignorance and the folk concept of law

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. Next week Piotr Bystranowski give a talk: "Normative ignorance and the folk concept of law”. The seminar will take place exceptionally on Tuesday 20th of June at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

Program and registration for the Yale-Oxford-Jagiellonian BioXPhi Summit

We are sharing the programme along with the information about the registration for the upcoming Yale-Oxford-Jagiellonian BioXPhi Summit which is going to take place in Kraków on 27th-30th of June

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25th of May 2023 – Tomasz Żuradzki – Who are the worst off? Prioritarianism and time

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Tomasz Żuradzki will give a talk: "Who are the worst off? Prioritarianism and time". The seminar will take place on Thursday 25th of May at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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Recent publications

New paper co-authored by Elena Popa

Elena Popa from INCET and Jakub Zawiła-Niedźwiecki along with Michał Zabdyr-Jamróz published a new article: “Policy change without ethical analysis? Commentary on the publication of Smajdo” in Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics . This paper is a part of the Values, Trust, and Decision Making in Public Health project.

New paper co-authored by Vilius Dranseika

Vilius Dranseika from BIOUNCERTAINTY project, Shaun Nichols and Nina Strohminger, published a new article: "Which kind of sameness? Disambiguating two senses of identity with a novel linguistic task” in Cognition.

New paper co-authored by Giulio Fornaroli

Giulio Fornaroli from INCET and Cristián Rettig published a new article: "Human Rights under Emergency: A Normative Assessment of Derogation" in Social Theory and Practice. This paper is a part of Making Up for What We Did: From Morality to the Law; From the Present to the Past project.