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 BioXPhi 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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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.
Paper:
Sakuragi Sh., Dranseika V., Michaelian K. (forthcoming). Trends in philosophy of memory: A quantitative approach. Lexis - Journal in English Lexicology.
(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.