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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
Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy - A new publication co-authored by Vilius Dranseika
A striking feature of our memories of the personal past is that they involve different visual perspectives: one sometimes recalls past events from one’s original point of view (a field perspective), but one sometimes recalls them from an external point of view (an observer perspective). In philosophy, observer memories are often seen as being less than fully genuine and as being necessarily false or distorted. This paper looks at whether laypeople share the standard philosophical view by applying the methods of experimental philosophy.
The Precautionary Principle and Expert Disagreement - a new paper by Lee Elkin
The Precautionary Principle is typically construed as a conservative decision rule aimed at preventing harm. But Martin Peterson has argued that the principle is better understood as an epistemic rule, guiding decision-makers in forming beliefs rather than choosing among possible acts. On the epistemic view, he claims there is a principle concerning expert disagreement underlying precautionary-based reasoning called the ecumenical principle.
Are There Cross-Cultural Legal Principles? Modal Reasoning Uncovers Procedural Constraints on Law - a new publication co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski and Vilius Dranseika
Despite pervasive variation in the content of laws, legal theorists and anthropologists have argued that laws share certain abstract features and even speculated that law may be a human universal. In the present report, we evaluate this thesis through an experiment administered in 11 different countries. Are there cross-cultural principles of law?
Do Formalist Judges Abide By Their Abstract Principles? A Two-Country Study in Adjudication - a new publication co-authored by Piotr Bystranowski
Recent literature in experimental philosophy has postulated the existence of the abstract/concrete paradox (ACP): the tendency to activate inconsistent intuitions (and generate inconsistent judgment) depending on whether a problem to be analyzed is framed in abstract terms or is described as a concrete case. One recent study supports the thesis that this effect influences judicial decision-making (...)
