Piotr Bystranowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 6544114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Piotr Bystranowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Piotr |
| FAMILY NAME | Bystranowski |
| SIGNATURE | BYSTRANOWSKI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jagiellonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5539-1342 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other
We respond to Gillon’s critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal’s first 50 years. Gillon, drawing on his personal memories as JME ’s second (and longest serving) editor, challenges several of our findings, particularly those concerning the prominence and classification of topics such as Ethics education . In this reply, we c…
Journal of Medical Ethics at 50
In this paper, we take a data-driven approach to analyse intellectual trends over the first five decades of the Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ). Our data set, comprising all texts published in the JME since 1975, reveals not only the most distinctive topics of the JME in comparison to other key journals with similar profiles but also diachronic fluctuations in the prominence of certain topics. Overall, the distribution of topics shifted gradual…
Measuring Meta-Interpretation
American legal interpretation has taken an empirical turn. Courts and scholars use corpus linguistics, survey experiments, and machine learning to clarify meanings of legal texts. We introduce these developments in »issue-level interpretation,« concerning interpretive theories' application to legal language. Empirical methods also inform »meta-interpretive« debate: Which interpretive theory do interpreters use; which have they used; and which sho…
Justice before Expediency
The notion that a false positive (false conviction) is worse than a false negative (false acquittal) is a deep-seated commitment in the theory of criminal law. Its most illustrious formulation, the so-called Blackstone’s ratio, affirms that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”. Are people’s evaluations of criminal statutes consitent with this tenet of the Western legal tradition? To answer this question, we …
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment
The object of criminal punishment (what exactly an offender is punished for ) is a central construct of criminal law theory, but it remains hard to identify in many contexts. This is especially relevant in the case of proxy crimes—offenses that criminalize behavior that does not seem wrongful per se but stands in for some other hard-to-prove wrongdoing. What is the object of punishment imposed on a person convicted of a proxy crime? Is it the cri…
Do Formalist Judges Abide By Their Abstract Principles? A Two-Country Study in Adjudication
Recent literature in experimental philosophy has postulated the existence of the abstract/concrete paradox (ACP): the tendency to activate inconsistent intuitions (and generate inconsistent judgment) depending on whether a problem to be analyzed is framed in abstract terms or is described as a concrete case. One recent study supports the thesis that this effect influences judicial decision-making, including decision-making by professional judges,…
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine
Topic modeling—a text‐mining technique often used to uncover thematic structures in large collections of texts—has been increasingly frequently used in the context of the analysis of scholarly output. In this study, we construct a corpus of 19,488 texts published since 1971 in seven leading journals in the field of bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and we use a machine learning algorithm to identify almost 100 topics representing distinct the…
Anchoring effect in legal decision-making
Existing research indicates anchoring effects exist in legal contexts. The influence of anchors seems to depend on some situational factors, which paves the way for future research on countering the problematic effect in legal settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
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Anchoring effect in legal decision-making
Existing research indicates anchoring effects exist in legal contexts. The influence of anchors seems to depend on some situational factors, which paves the way for future research on countering the problematic effect in legal settings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)
Do Formalist Judges Abide By Their Abstract Principles? A Two-Country Study in Adjudication
Recent literature in experimental philosophy has postulated the existence of the abstract/concrete paradox (ACP): the tendency to activate inconsistent intuitions (and generate inconsistent judgment) depending on whether a problem to be analyzed is framed in abstract terms or is described as a concrete case. One recent study supports the thesis that this effect influences judicial decision-making, including decision-making by professional judges,…
Half a century of bioethics and philosophy of medicine
Topic modeling—a text‐mining technique often used to uncover thematic structures in large collections of texts—has been increasingly frequently used in the context of the analysis of scholarly output. In this study, we construct a corpus of 19,488 texts published since 1971 in seven leading journals in the field of bioethics and philosophy of medicine, and we use a machine learning algorithm to identify almost 100 topics representing distinct the…
Measuring Meta-Interpretation
American legal interpretation has taken an empirical turn. Courts and scholars use corpus linguistics, survey experiments, and machine learning to clarify meanings of legal texts. We introduce these developments in »issue-level interpretation,« concerning interpretive theories' application to legal language. Empirical methods also inform »meta-interpretive« debate: Which interpretive theory do interpreters use; which have they used; and which sho…
Justice before Expediency
The notion that a false positive (false conviction) is worse than a false negative (false acquittal) is a deep-seated commitment in the theory of criminal law. Its most illustrious formulation, the so-called Blackstone’s ratio, affirms that “it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”. Are people’s evaluations of criminal statutes consitent with this tenet of the Western legal tradition? To answer this question, we …
Uncertainty and Condemnation. An Experimental Study on Lay and Expert Intuitions Regarding the Object of Criminal Punishment
The object of criminal punishment (what exactly an offender is punished for ) is a central construct of criminal law theory, but it remains hard to identify in many contexts. This is especially relevant in the case of proxy crimes—offenses that criminalize behavior that does not seem wrongful per se but stands in for some other hard-to-prove wrongdoing. What is the object of punishment imposed on a person convicted of a proxy crime? Is it the cri…
Journal of Medical Ethics at 50
In this paper, we take a data-driven approach to analyse intellectual trends over the first five decades of the Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ). Our data set, comprising all texts published in the JME since 1975, reveals not only the most distinctive topics of the JME in comparison to other key journals with similar profiles but also diachronic fluctuations in the prominence of certain topics. Overall, the distribution of topics shifted gradual…
Personal memory and distant reading can complement each other
We respond to Gillon’s critique of our data-driven analysis of the history of Journal of Medical Ethics ( JME ), in which we used a topic model to trace intellectual trends in the journal’s first 50 years. Gillon, drawing on his personal memories as JME ’s second (and longest serving) editor, challenges several of our findings, particularly those concerning the prominence and classification of topics such as Ethics education . In this reply, we c…
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