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Concepts of death

2020/39/D/HS1/02907

Keywords:

definition of death moral status personal identity soul organism brain death organ transplantation

Descriptors:

  • HS1_007:

Panel:

HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Piotr Grzegorz Nowak 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: SONATA 16 - announced on 2020-09-15

Amount awarded: 175 895 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-07-16

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2024-07-15

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Death as the extinction of the source of value. The constructivist theory of death as an irreversible loss of moral status
    Authors:
    Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
    Academic press:
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11017-023-09656-w - link to the publication
  2. How many ways can you die? Multiple biological deaths as a consequence of the multiple concepts of an organism
    Authors:
    Piot Grzegorz Nowak, Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11017-022-09583-2 - link to the publication
  3. Organismal Superposition Problem and Nihilist Challenge in the Definition of Death
    Authors:
    Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
    Academic press:
    Perspectives in Biology and Medicine , Wydawca: John Hopkins University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1353/pbm.2024.a919707 - link to the publication
  4. Defining Death: Toward a Biological and Ethical Synthesis
    Authors:
    John Lizza, Christos Lazaridis, Piotr Grzegorz Nowak
    Academic press:
    American Journal of Bioethics (tom: -, strony: ), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/15265161.2024.2371124 - link to the publication