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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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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

Half a Century of Bioethics and Philosophy of Medicine. A Topic-Modeling Study - a new article by Piotr Bystranowski, Vilius Dranseika and Tomasz Żuradzki forthcoming in Bioethics

Topic modeling–a text-mining technique often used to uncover thematic structures in large collections of texts–has been increasingly frequently employed in the context of analysis of scholarly output. In this study, we construct a corpus of 19,488 texts published since 1971 in seven leading journals in the field of bioethics and philosophy of medicine and we fit a topic model, using the latent Dirichlet algorithm (K = 100).

Is meta-analysis of RCTs assessing the efficacy of interventions a reliable source of evidence for therapeutic decisions? - a new article by Mariusz Maziarz

Literature-based meta-analysis is a standard technique applied to pool results of individual studies used in medicine and social sciences. It has been criticized for being too malleable to constrain results, averaging incomparable values, lacking a measure of evidence's strength, and problems with a systematic bias of individual studies. We argue against using literature-based meta-analysis of RCTs to assess treatment efficacy and show that therapeutic decisions based on meta-analytic average are not optimal given the full scope of existing evidence.

Regret Averse Opinion Aggregation - a new publication by Lee Elkin

It is often suggested that when opinions differ among individuals in a group, the opinions should be aggregated to form a compromise. This paper compares two approaches to aggregating opinions, linear pooling and what I call opinion agglomeration. In evaluating both strategies, I propose a pragmatic criterion, No Regrets, entailing that an aggregation strategy should prevent groups from buying and selling bets on events at prices regretted by their members.

Experimental Philosophical Bioethics and Normative Inference - a new article co-authored by Vilius Dranseika

This paper explores an emerging sub-field of both empirical bioethics and experimental philosophy, which has been called “experimental philosophical bioethics” (bioxphi). As an empirical discipline, bioxphi adopts the methods of experimental moral psychology and cognitive science; it does so to make sense of the eliciting factors and underlying cognitive processes that shape people’s moral judgments, particularly about real-world matters of bioethical concern.