At the beginning of doctoral studies, the student, in agreement with their supervisor, determines the topic of the dissertation, which must be in accordance with the scientific research focus of the doctoral program being studied. The student has the option of bringing his/her own topic or choosing from the list of proposals:
DISSERTATION TOPIC PROPOSALS: APPLIED ETHICS
Philosophical ethics
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• elaboration of specific historical positions and traditional questions or philosophical reflection of current problems based on strictly philosophical positions • topics of the problem of individual freedom in relation to ethical obligation • human dignity • ethical problems of dying and death • ethical problems of pain • topics exploring the limits of ethics or ethical limits • topics of bioethics |
Scientific ethics or the ethics of scientific research about differences in natural and social, respectively, spiritual sciences
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• ethical problems of experimental sciences • methodological issues of moral education and teaching ethics, etc. • ethical codes of professionals (scientists, public officials, doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers) |
Ethics of public space
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• topics of ethics of media workers, or "journalistic ethics" • topics dealing with examples of power relations between an institution worker and a client, a doctor and a patient, an employer and an employee, or a teacher and a pupil (professor and student) |
Ethics of new technologies
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• ethics of virtual space • ethics of artificial intelligence • ethics of social networks • e.g., cyberbullying, spreading fake news and trust in it, false identities and their theft, etc. • ethical problems of privacy protection and handling of sensitive information |
Social Ethics
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• ethical problems of limited resources and their allocation • ethical problems of social emergency with a focus on physically and socially handicapped people • ethics in the economy and the problem of trust • ethical problems of gender and transgender |
Medical ethics and ethics of care
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• ethical problems of aging and old age • the relationship of ethics and law in general or with connotations to dilemmatic issues of social and health care • ethical problems of reproductive medicine and assisted reproduction (e.g., embryo status, surrogate mother) • ethical problems of clinical medicine (paternalism and partnership, truth on the hospital bed, informed consent, communication with the patient and family - narrative medicine, coping with loss, grief and sorrow, etc.) • methodological and practical procedures for patient education in the partnership model of the doctor-patient relationship • ethical problems of management social and health systems, including their supervision |
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