Projects funded by the NCN


Information on the principal investigator and host institution

Information of the project and the call

Keywords

Equipment

Delete all

Bioethics of space exploration

2021/41/B/HS1/00223

Keywords:

Bioethics space missions human enhancement space philosophy

Descriptors:

  • HS1_007:

Panel:

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

Host institution :

Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania w Rzeszowie, Kolegium Mediów i Komunikacji Społecznej

woj. podkarpackie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Konrad Szocik 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: OPUS 21 - announced on 2021-03-15

Amount awarded: 157 680 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2022-02-11

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2025-02-10

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

Project status: Project completed

Project description

Download the project description in a pdf file

Note - project descriptions were prepared by the authors of the applications themselves and placed in the system in an unchanged form.

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (12)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (4)
  1. The evolution of puritanical morality has not always served to strengthen cooperation, but to reinforce male dominance and exclude women
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences (rok: 2023, tom: 46, strony: 46025), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S0140525X23000523 - link to the publication
  2. Space not for everyone: The problem of social exclusion in the concept of space settlement
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    Futures (rok: 2022, tom: 145, strony: 46026), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.futures.2022.103073 - link to the publication
  3. Proxy failure in social policies as one of the main causes of persistent sexism and racism
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    Behavioral and Brain Sciences (rok: 2024, tom: 47, strony: 46025), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S0140525X23002996 - link to the publication
  4. Bioethics Interested in Environmental Justice Should First and Foremost Criticize Capitalism
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    The American Journal of Bioethics (rok: 2024, tom: 24(3), strony: 57–59), Wydawca: Taylor and Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/15265161.2024.2303129 - link to the publication
  5. Moral Bioenhancement for Space: Should We Enhance Morally Future Deep-Space Astronauts and Space Settlers?
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik & Arvin M. Gouw
    Academic press:
    Theology and Science (rok: 2023, tom: 0,877777777777778, strony: 821-836), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/14746700.2023.2255958 - link to the publication
  6. A case for the moral duty of specific human germline genetic engineering
    Authors:
    Szocik, Konrad, Matthew MacKay, Christopher E. Mason
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Astrobiology (rok: 2024, tom: 23, strony: 46031), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S1473550424000120 - link to the publication
  7. Climate change and anti-natalism: Between the horrible and the unthinkable
    Authors:
    Szocik, Konrad, Matti Häyry
    Academic press:
    South African Journal of Philosophy (rok: 2024, tom: 43 (1), strony: 21–29), Wydawca: Taylor and Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02580136.2024.2309770 - link to the publication
  8. If extraterrestrial intelligence exists, it is unable to recognize humans as intelligent beings
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik, Rakhat Abylkasymova
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Astrobiology (rok: 2022, tom: 21, strony: 462-468), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S1473550422000179 - link to the publication
  9. Feminism and gender in thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik & Rakhat Abylkasymova
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Astrobiology (rok: 2023, tom: 22 (3), strony: 238–246), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1017/S1473550423000034 - link to the publication
  10. Why It Is Rational to Expect the Horrible – The Future of Humanity and Climate Change
    Authors:
    Szocik, Konrad, Matti Häyry
    Academic press:
    South African Journal of Philosophy (rok: 2024, tom: 43 (1), strony: 12–20), Wydawca: Taylor and Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/02580136.2023.2275232 - link to the publication
  11. Why moral bioenhancement in future space missions may not be a good idea: The perspective of feminist bioethics of space exploration
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    Technology in Society (rok: 2023, tom: 75, strony: 46026), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.techsoc.2023.102365 - link to the publication
  12. SDG 18 for sustainable space exploration
    Authors:
    Dominik Zimon, Kateryna Lysenko‑Ryba, Konrad Szocik
    Academic press:
    European Journal of Futures Research (rok: 2024, tom: 12, 22, strony: 46030), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s40309-024-00243-3 - link to the publication
  1. Ethical Issues in CRISPR for Human Space Missions
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Book:
    The CRISPR Revolution in Science, Religion, and Ethics (rok: 2025, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 141-152), Wydawca: Bloomsbury Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.5040/9798216171232.0013 - link to the publication
  2. Authors:
    Konrad Szocik
    Book:
    Feminist Bioethics in Space: Gender Inequality in Space Exploration (rok: 2024, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 186), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/9780197691076.001.0001 - link to the publication
  3. Space Feminism, Exploration, Exploitation and Ethics
    Authors:
    Konrad Szocik, Rakhat Abylkasymova
    Book:
    Space, Philosophy and Ethics (rok: 2025, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 141-151), Wydawca: Vernon Press
    Status:
    Published
  4. Planning for the Future in Space – With or Without Radical Biomedical Human Enhancement?
    Authors:
    Rakhat Abylkasymova, Konrad Szocik
    Book:
    The Ethics Gap in the Engineering of the Future. Moral Challenges for the Technology of Tomorrow (rok: 2024, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 201-213), Wydawca: Emerald Publishing Limited
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1108/978-1-83797-635-520241011 - link to the publication