Vojin Rakić

Full Professor, Principal Research Fellow

Head of the Centre for Philosophy

e-mail: 
vrakic@idn.org.rs
vojinrakic@hotmail.com

Bibliography

PhD, Political Science, Rutgers University (U.S.A.), 1998

MA, Political Science, Rutgers University (U.S.A.), 1996 

MA, International Relations and European Studies, Central European University (Prague), 1994 

BA, Philosophy, University of Belgrade, 1991

Areas of interest:

  • Bioethics
  • Ethics 
  • Political philosophy

Biography:

Vojin Rakić, Full Professor, is Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics and Head of the European Division of the International Chair in Bioethics, Cooperating Center of the World Medical Association (WMA). He is also Chair of the Cambridge Working Group for Bioethics Education in Serbia. Rakić has a PhD in Political Science from Rutgers University in the United States (1998). He graduated philosophy in Serbia, and has MA degrees in European Studies from the Central European University in Prague and from the Department of Political Science of Rutgers University.

He worked as a senior research fellow at the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente in the Netherlands (1999-2001). Between 2001 and 2003 he was a U.N. Special Adviser to the Government of Serbia. Since 2003 he works as a university professor in Belgrade. Rakić publishes primarily in English. His publications include various books and edited collections (his latest two books on moral enhancement Rakić published in 2021, ed. Springer), as well as numerous articles from the domain of (bio-)ethics, and political philosophy (recent publications: articles in the American Journal of Bioethics; the Cambridge Quarterly of Health Care Ethics; Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; Bioethics; Journal of Medical Ethics; Annals of Internal Medicine; Nature etc.).

Membership:

  • Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Bioethics
  • Head of the European Division of the International Chair in Bioethics, World Medical Association (WMA) Cooperating Centre
  • Secretary General, Continental Divisions of the International Chair in Bioethics, World Medical Association (WMA) Cooperating Centre
  • Member, Governing Council of the International Chair in Bioethics (ICB), World Medical Association (WMA) Cooperating Center
  • Head of European division of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • Head of the Serbian unit of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics
  • Chair of Cambridge Working Group for Bioethics Education in Serbia
  • Ethics committee of the Institute for Social Sciences (President)
  • Ethics committee of the Movement for Electronic Privacy
  • Center for the Development of Liberalism (Founding President)
  • Dutch Political Science Association (NKWP)
  • American Political Science Association (APSA)

www.vojinrakic.com

Pubications in the last two years:

  • Rakić, Vojin (2022) “Involuntary (Moral) Bioenhancement” Can Add Value to the Debate on Human Germline Genome Editing. The American Journal of Bioethics 22 (9): 54-56.
  • Feeney O, Werner-Felmayer Helena G, Siipi H. Frischhut M, Zullo S, Barteczko U, Øystein Ursin L, Linn S, Felzmann H, Krajnović D,  Saunders J and Rakić, V. (2022). “European eHealth Responses to Crisis Migration: A Critical Appraisal”. In: Forced Displacement in Conflict Scenarios: Ethics and Human Rights Perspectives, eds. Hellemeyer A. and Díaz-Amado E. Bogota, Col: Javeriana University Press.
  • Rakić, Vojin (2022) How to Enhance Morality. Dordrecht, NL: Springer.
  • Rakić, Vojin (2022) The Ultimate Enhancement of Morality. Dordrecht, NL: Springer.
  • Rakić, Vojin (2021) “Enhancing Fabiano`s Theory of Moral Enhancement”. American Journal of Bioethics – Neuroscience 12 (2-3):  108-
  • Rakić, Vojin and Feeney, Oliver (2021) “Genome editing and ‘disenhancement’: Considerations on issues of non-identity and genetic pluralism”. Nature – Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. Online first, doi.org/10.1057/s41599-021-00795-w
  • Budić, M., Galjak, M. & Rakić, V. (2021) “What drives public attitudes towards moral bioenhancement and why it matters: an exploratory study”. BMC Med Ethics 22: 163. Online first.

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