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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

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News

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 call, number: 2022/47/O/HS1/02794, head of the project: dr hab. Tomasz Żuradzki, prof. UJ.

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23rd of March 2023 – Mariusz Maziarz – Overcoming the plurality of causal pluralisms

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Mariusz Maziarz will give a talk: "Overcoming the plurality of causal pluralisms". The seminar will take place on Thursday 23rd of March at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

Tomasz Żuradzki appointed to the Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences Presidium

Presidium of the Polish Academy of Sciences appointed Tomasz Żuradzki, principal investigator ot the BIOUNCERTAINTY project, to the Bioethics Committee of the PAS Presidium for the term 2023-2026

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16th of March 2023 roku – Vilius Dranseika – The Duality of Value: A Corpus Study

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Vilius Dranseika will give a talk: "The Duality of Value: A Corpus Study". The seminar will take place on Thursday 16th of March at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

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9th of March 2023 – Giulio Fornaroli – Making the Beneficiary Pay: Distributive, Not Corrective

We have the pleasure to invite you to another research seminar in the ‘BIOUNCERTAINTY’ research project. This week Giulio Fornaroli a new post-doctoral researcher at INCET will give a talk: "Making the Beneficiary Pay: Distributive, Not Corrective". The seminar will take place on Thursday 9th of March at 5:30 p.m. in the room 25 on Grodzka Street and via MS Teams.

Short visiting fellowships at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics (INCET) at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków welcomes applications for short (no longer than about two weeks) visiting fellowships for the year 2023. Submissions from Ukrainian scholars are especially welcome. We particularly support applications from scholars who plan to come to Kraków to work jointly with us on applications to secure funding for a research project. We will review applications on an ongoing basis.

Lista 2315 publikacji zgłoszonych przez polskie instytucje naukowe do ewaluacji w dyscyplinie filozofia

Publikujemy „Listę osiągnięć naukowych ocenianych w dyscyplinie filozofia ramach kryterium I ewaluacji jakości działalności naukowej za lata 2017-2021”, którą otrzymaliśmy od Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki na podstawie Ustawy o dostępie do informacji publicznej.

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Recent publications

New paper coauthored by Vilius Dranseika: Does Macbeth See a Dagger? An Empirical Argument for the Existence-Neutrality of Seeing

A new paper by Viliusa Dranseiki and André Sant’Anna "Does Macbeth See a Dagger? An Empirical Argument for the Existence-Neutrality of Seeing" has been published in Erkenntnis.

New publication by Vilius Dranseika: Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs

Vilius Dranseika, assistant researcher in the BIOUNCERTAINTY project, has authored a new publication "Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity. A Study on Reincarnation Beliefs". The publication is a chapter in "Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self" anthology edited by Kevin Tobia.

New paper by Lee Elkin and Karolina Wiśniowska - Too Rational: How Predictive Coding’s Success Risks Harming the Mentally Disordered and Ill

A new paper by Lee Elkin and Karolina Wiśniowska titled "Too Rational: How Predictive Coding’s Success Risks Harming the Mentally Disordered and Ill" has been published in the first issue of the Journal of NeuroPhilosophy.

Proxy Crimes - a new article co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski

“Proxy crimes” is a phrase loosely used to refer to conduct that is punished only as a means to target other harmful conduct. Many criminal law scholars find the criminalization of this type of conduct unjustifiable from a retributivist perspective, while others note that proxy criminalization can contribute to mass incarceration and overcriminalization. Given the importance of these problems, a systematic analysis of proxy crimes, currently absent in the criminal law literature, is needed.