Professor, Ethics Department, Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw
Contact: p.w.lukow<- @ ->uw.edu.pl
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
Current projects:
- Healthcare as a Public Space: Social Integration and Social Diversity in the Context of Access to Healthcare in Europe
- Body, Person, and Informed Consent. Ethics of Using Human Body in Medicine and Research
- Development of Participatory Bioethics
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:
- 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)
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)