Paweł Łuków, director - Center for Bioethics and Biolaw

Professor, Ethics Department, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

normative ethics and contemporary Kantian thought with special interest in autonomy and the problems of justification of moral norms
clinical ethics, in particular issues of patient informed consent to medical intervention and the ethical foundations of legal regulation in this sphere
ethics of transplantation; the problems of relation between a person and their body and the scope of the individual’s right to disposal of their own body
bioethical discourse in democratic society and its axiological foundations
ethics instruction in medical professions

Zrozumieć śmierć człowieka (Warszawa, ed. 2015)
Etyka medyczna z elementami filozofii (Warszawa, 2014; with T. Pasierski)
Moralność medycyny. O sztuce dobrego życia i o sztuce leczenia (Warszawa, 2012)
Granice zgody: autonomia zasad i dobro pacjenta (Warszawa, 2005)
Wolność i autorytet rozumu. Racjonalność w filozofii moralnej Kanta (Warszawa, 1997)

Chair of the Ethics Department, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Director of graduate studies in Bioethics (IF, UW)
Member of National Transplantation Council
Chair of Committee on Ethics in Science, 1st Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polish Academy of Science
Member of Committee for Bioethics at Chair of Polish Academy of Sciences
Editor in chief of the journal Etyka (Ethics)

professor (state degree) (2014)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship, The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh, UK (2009)
doctor habilitated (2006)
The Rockefeller Foundation residency at Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Italy (2001)
The Fulbright Program, research visit at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA (1999-2000)
Cambridge Hospitality Scheme, Newnham College, Cambridge University, UK (1997)
doctor of humanities in philosophy (PhD) (1994)
University of Notre Dame, doctoral research visit at the University of Notre Dame, USA (1992-93)
The British Council academic visit, University of Essex, UK (1990-91)
master of arts in philosophy (MA) (1987)