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329No ethics settings for autonomous vehiclesHungarian Philosophical Review 63 (4): 47-60. 2019.Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are expected to improve road traffic safety and save human lives. It is also expected that some AVs will encounter so-called dilemmatic situations, like choosing between saving two passengers by sacrificing one pedestrian or choosing between saving three pedestrians by sacrificing one passenger. These expectations fuel the extensive debate over the ethics settings of AVs: the way AVs should be programmed to act in dilemmatic situations and who should decide about the na…Read more
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38O nekim konceptualnim i eksplanatornim poteškoćama evolucijske etikeProlegomena 4 (1): 49-70. 2005.U članku se argumentira da se suvremena evolucijska etika, u mjeri u kojoj preuzima sociobiološke strategije naturaliziranja ljudskog morala, suočava s nekim ozbiljnim konceptualnim i eksplanatornim poteškoćama. Konceptualna se poteškoća sastoji u uvidu da “moral” nije isto što i “altruizam”, već obuhvaća više specifičnih elemenata uslijed kojih ga se smatra upravo moralom, a ne evolucijskim ili psihološkim altruizmom. Eksplanatorna se poteškoća sastoji u uvidu da korektno konceptualizirani feno…Read more
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38Building Blocks in Search of a Theory: Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Frans de Waal . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006, (209 pp; $22.95 hbk; ISBN 0691124477) (review)Biological Theory 2 (4): 422-424. 2007.
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33On Some Conceptual and Explanatory Difficulties of Evolutionary EthicsProlegomena 4 (1): 49-70. 2005.In the article it is argued that contemporary evolutionary ethics – to the extent it accepts sociobiological strategies of naturalizing human morality – faces some serious conceptual and explanatory difficulties. Conceptual difficulty consists in recognizing that “morality” is not the same as “altruism”, but rather comprises several specific elements which distinguish it from both evolutionary and psychological altruism. Explanatory difficulty consists in recognizing that the phenomenon of moral…Read more
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7This article argues that various deviations from the basic principles of the scientific ethos – primarily the appearance of pseudoscience in scientific communities – can be formulated and explained using specific modelsof game theory, such as the prisoner’s dilemma and the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. The article indirectly tackles the deontology of scientific work as well, in which it is assumed that there is no room for moral skepticism, let alone moral anti-realism, in the ethics of scientifi…Read more
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438The referee’s dilemma. The ethics of scientific communities and game theoryProlegomena 1 (1): 55-74. 2002.This article argues that various deviations from the basic principles of the scientific ethos – primarily the appearance of pseudoscience in scientific communities – can be formulated and explained using specific models of game theory, such as the prisoner’s dilemma and the iterated prisoner’s dilemma. The article indirectly tackles the deontology of scientific work as well, in which it is assumed that there is no room for moral skepticism, let alone moral anti-realism, in the ethics of scientif…Read more
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70Sex Reassignment Surgery and EnhancementJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 42 (1): 86-102. 2017.Sex reassignment surgery is a therapy for gender dysphoria standardly provided only upon a psychiatric authorization. Transgender scholars criticize this practice as unjustified medicalization and stigmatization of transsexual people. By demanding that sex reassignment surgery is not classified as therapy, they imply it should be classified as some kind of a biomedical enhancement. It is argued in this article that this reclassification is empirically and morally implausible because sex reassign…Read more
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64Parental Licensing Meets Evolutionary PsychologyEthical Perspectives 19 (2): 207-233. 2012.Hugh LaFollette has proposed that in order to prevent statistically expected harm that many parents inflict on their children prospective parents should be licensed. This article evaluates his proposal by looking at various facts, statistical data and probability estimates related to sex differences in human mating and parenting behaviour provided by evolutionary psychology. It is suggested that these evolutionary considerations create a serious stalemate between certain basic moral principles t…Read more
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38Respect for cultural diversity in bioethics. Empirical, conceptual and normative constraintsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 14 (3): 229-236. 2011.In contemporary debates about the nature of bioethics there is a widespread view that bioethical decision making should involve certain knowledge of and respect for cultural diversity of persons to be affected. The aim of this article is to show that this view is untenable and misleading. It is argued that introducing the idea of respect for cultural diversity into bioethics encounters a series of conceptual and empirical constraints. While acknowledging that cultural diversity is something that…Read more
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47Mating Intelligence, Moral Virtues, and Methodological VicesIn Henk W. de Regt (ed.), Epsa Philosophy of Science: Amsterdam 2009, Springer. pp. 13--22. 2010.According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in human mating strategies, ‘mating intelligence’ theory is analyzed for its compatibility with several psych…Read more
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48Igor Kardum: Evolucija i ljudsko ponašanjeProlegomena 2 (2): 246-250. 2003.Review of Igor Kardum's book Evolucija i ljudsko ponašanje (Evolution and Human Behavior)
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16Kako filozofi plagiraju: 10 primjera iz članka Zdravka RadmanaFilozofska Istrazivanja 27 (3): 685-693. 2007.
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13Building Blocks in Search of a Theory: Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved Frans de Waal Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006 (209 pp; $22.95 hbk; ISBN 0691124477) (review)Biological Theory 2 (4): 422-424. 2007.A critical review of Frans de Waal's book on evolution of morality (Frans de Waal, Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006)
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46From integrative bioethics to pseudoscienceDeveloping World Bioethics 12 (3): 148-156. 2012.Integrative bioethics is a brand of bioethics conceived and propagated by a group of Croatian philosophers and other scholars. This article discusses and shows that the approach encounters several serious difficulties. In criticizing certain standard views on bioethics and in presenting their own, the advocates of integrative bioethics fall into various conceptual confusions and inconsistencies. Although presented as a project that promises to deal with moral dilemmas created by modern science a…Read more
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42Doktorske disertacije iz filozofije u Hrvatskoj (1880–1989)Prolegomena 2 (2): 277-288. 2003.Doctoral dissertations in philosophy in Croatia (1880-1989)
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35Against culturally sensitive bioethicsMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 16 (4): 647-652. 2013.This article discusses the view that bioethics should become ‘‘culturally sensitive’’ and give more weight to various cultural traditions and their respective moral beliefs. It is argued that this view is implausible for the following three reasons: it renders the disciplinary boundaries of bioethics too flexible and inconsistent with metaphysical commitments of Western biomedical sciences, it is normatively useless because it approaches cultural phenomena in a predominantly descriptive and sele…Read more
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58According to the ‘mating intelligence’ theory by evolutionary psychologist Geoffrey Miller, human morality is a system of sexually selected traits which serve as costly signals to the other sex about one’s fitness and readiness to take care for possible offspring. Starting from the standard prediction of evolutionary psychology that sexual selection produces psychological sex differences in human mating strategies, ‘mating intelligence’ theory is analyzed for its compatibility with several psych…Read more
Tomislav Bracanovic
Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb
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Institute of Philosophy, ZagrebRegular Faculty