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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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News

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 by Karolina Wiśniowska, Tomasz Żuradzki and Wojciech Ciszewski

A new paper by Karolina Wiśniowska, Tomasz Żuradzki and Wojciech Ciszewski titled "Value choices in European COVID-19 vaccination schedules: how vaccination prioritization differs from other forms of priority setting" has been published in the Journal of Law and the Biosciences.

New paper by Tomasz Żuradzki & Vilius Dranseika: Reasons to Genome Edit and Metaphysical Essentialism about Human Identity

A new paper by Tomasz Żuradzki & Vilius Dranseika "Reasons to Genome Edit and Metaphysical Essentialism about Human Identity" has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics.

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.