Vilius Dranseika
I am a philosopher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University, in Kraków, Poland, where I am a university professor (profesor uczelni).
My research focuses on the psychological underpinnings of philosophical concepts and theories. Recently, the main themes of my work have been personal identity, death, and memory. I am also interested in computational approaches—ranging from natural language processing to citation analysis—applied to philosophy, including the history of philosophy. My publication list.
I hold a PhD in Philosophy from the Centre for Philosophy of Memory, Grenoble Alpes University, France.
Google Scholar profile | Lab member: Oxford Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab | Affiliated member: Centre for Philosophy of Memory | Visiting lecturer: Institute of Philosophy, Vilnius University & Vilnius Academy of Art | PhilPapers section editor: Experimental Philosophy: Persons | Steering committee member: Philosophy of Memory Organization
Reach me @ vilius.dranseika@uj.edu.pl
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Preprint:
Bachmakova, M., Buyukbabani, M. B., Dranseika, V., [...], Hannikainen, I., & Earp, B. D. (unpublished manuscript). Even with diet and exercise, Ozempic use reduces perceived effort and praiseworthiness of resulting weight loss.
Paper:
Sakuragi Sh., Dranseika V., Michaelian K. (forthcoming). Trends in philosophy of memory: A quantitative approach. Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology.
Paper:
Dranseika V., Ziółkowski A. (forthcoming). Depressurizing Gettier. Synthese.
Preprint:
Earp B., Porsdam Mann S., ... Dranseika V., ..., et al. (unpublished manuscript). Relational Norms for Human-AI Cooperation.
Paper:
Żuradzki T., Bystranowski P., Dranseika V. (2025). Discussions on human enhancement meet science: A quantitative analysis. Science and Engineering Ethics. 31: 6.
Paper:
Dranseika V., Bystranowski P., Żuradzki T. (forthcoming). Journal of Medical Ethics at 50. A data-driven history. Journal of Medical Ethics. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-110528
Paper:
Dranseika V., Nichols S., Shoemaker D. (2024) The identity of what? Pluralism, practical interests, and individuation. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 109(3): 757-773.
LT (charity merch):
"Sidabrinė linija" (a free of charge befriending and support line providing information, friendship and advise to old age persons) used some of my old cartoons for their fundraising campaign
(LT) Interview:
Topic: Ethics of artificial intelligence
Lrytas TV podcast 'DI ID'
28 November 2024
Talk:
Delineating Philosophy of Medicine: A data-driven approach
@ Digital Dreams and Practices. DHNB2025
5-7 March 2025 | Tartu
Paper:
Dranseika V. (2024). Folk beliefs about phenomenological differences and similarities between kinds of mental states. In: D. Gregory and K. Michaelian (eds.) Dreaming and Memory: Philosophical Issues. Springer, pp. 325-352.
Talk:
Hackenschmidt on forgetting
@ Thought in Time: Tartu-Grenoble Workshop on Memory and Imagination
27-28 February 2025 | Tartu
Paper:
Hall B., Schmidt K., Wagge J., ... Dranseika V., ... et al. (2024). Registered replication report: A large multilab cross-cultural conceptual replication of Turri et al. (2015). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 7(4).
Talk:
Algorithmic reading
@ International Doctoral Winter School in Education
4-7 December 2024 | Druskininkai, LT
Talk:
From ethics to metaphysics
@ XVI Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality
13-15 November 2024 | Barcelona
Paper:
Brussels Collaboration on Bodily Integrity. (forthcoming). Genital modifications in prepubescent minors: When may clinicians ethically proceed? American Journal of Bioethics.
Paper:
Neiders I., Dranseika V. (forthcoming). The case for pluralism in death determination: From empirical data to a policy proposal. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy.
(LT) Letter to the editor:
Dranseika V. (2024). Laiškas redaktoriui. Naujasis židinys - Aidai, 2024(5): 1-2.
(LT) Talk:
Of humans and other domesticated species
@ Visi geri dalykai'24
17 August 2024 | AKEE, Lithuania
Keynote talk:
Folk metaphysics and practical interests
@ 19th Estonian Annual Philosophy Conference
29-30 August 2024 | Tartu
(LT) Discussion:
Philosophy and art (in conversation with Valentinas Klimašauskas)
@ Vilnius Gallery Weekend 2024
5 September 2024 | Entity, Vilnius
Talk:
On intrapersonal pluralism about death
@ International Associaction for the Philosophy of Death and Dying
22-24 August 2024 | Krakow
Paper:
Dranseika V. (2024). Two ships of Theseus. Synthese 203: 201.
Conference co-organized:
4th European Conference of Experimental Philosophy
30 May - 2 June 2024 | Krakow
(LT) Exhibition merch:
Vilnius Museum used one of my old cartoons as a part of their new exhibition 'Inconvenient Vilnius.'
26 July - 31 December 2024 | Vilnius
(LT) Short essay:
Institutions of forgetting
@ artnews.lt
Documentary:
Managers of Luck (2022)
Director: Eglė Vertelytė
(with my participation)
Talk:
Which literatures does bioethics engage with? A citation analysis
@ Digital Bioethics: Methods, Applications, and Ethical Perspectives
7-9 August 2024 | Hannover
Talk:
Depressurizing Gettier (joint presentation with Adrian Ziółkowski)
@ ESPP 2024
2-5 July 2024 | Grenoble
(LT) Curatorial work:
Immanuel Kant's first editions
24 April, 2024 | Vilnius University library
(curated with Laurynas Peluritis)
Talk:
Personal identity
@ Memory, Personal Identity, Free Will: Three Forays into Experimental Philosophy
5 September 2024 | Vilnius
Talk:
The identity of what? Pluralism, practical interests, and individuation
@ Euro XPhi 2024
30 May - 2 June 2024 | Krakow
Paper:
Dranseika V., Neiders I., Earp B. D. (2024). Time for bioethics to end talk of personhood (but only in the philosophers’ sense). The American Journal of Bioethics. 24(1): 32–35.
Talk:
What does bioethics engage with?
@ Nordic-Baltic Network for Philosopy of Medicine
10 June 2024 | Reykjavik
Paper:
Sant’Anna A., Dranseika V. (2024). Does Macbeth see a dagger? An empirical argument for the existence-neutrality of seeing. Erkenntnis. 89(2): 641–664.
Documentary (trailer):
Taming the Wind Horse (2022)
Director: Deivis Nutautas
(with my participation)
(LT) Supervising:
Arturas Bukauskas, PhD thesis: “Suddenly They Came to Life and Began to Rush in, Intending to Eat My Brains." On Recursive Animation.
Vilnius Academy of Arts, 2024
(co-supervised with Zil Lilas)
Talk:
Philosophy of memory and psychology of memory
@ Eurasian Memory Meeting
15-17 March 2024 | Taipei
Paper:
Berniūnas, R., Beinorius, A., Dranseika, V., Silius, V., Rimkevičius, P. (2024). Being prosocial and happy, and believing in life-determining forces across cultures. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science. 8: 31–45.
Paper:
Neiders I., Dranseika V. (forthcoming). Is “terminally ill self-killing” suicide? Clinical Ethics.