Paweł Łuków

Director of the Center for Bioethics & Biolaw

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

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Research interests: 

• 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

Projects:

    In progress:

• Indecent proposal? Ethics of paying participants of biomedical research (NCN) – Investigator

     Completed: 

• Healthcare as a Public Space: Social Integration and Social Diversity in the Context of Access to Healthcare in Europe (HERA) – Principal Investigator (Poland)
• Body, Person, and Informed Consent. Ethics of Using Human Body in Medicine and Research (NCN) – Principal Investigator
• Development of Participatory Bioethics (NPRH)– Principal Investigator

Books:

• 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)

Functions:

• Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
• Chair of the Ethics Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
• Member of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE)
• Member of the National Transplantation Council
• Chair of the Rector’s Committee for Ethics of Research with Human Participants at the University of Warsaw
• Chair of the Committee on Ethics in Science, 1st Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Polish Academy of Science
• Member of the Bioethics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences
• Editor in chief of the journal Etyka (Ethics)

Education:

• 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)