My research is focused on psychological underpinnings of philosophical concepts and theories. Recently, main themes of my work are personal identity, beginning and end of life, and memory. I hold a research position at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. I'm an affiliated member of the Centre for Philosophy of Memory at the Université Grenoble Alpes, where I completed my PhD thesis in 2022.
V. Dranseik, I. Neiders, and B. D. Earp. Forthcoming. Time for bioethics to end talk of personhood (but only in the philosophers' sense). American Journal of Bioethics.
A. Sant'Anna and V. Dranseika. Forthcoming. Does Macbeth see a dagger? An empirical argument for the existence-neutrality of seeing. Erkenntnis.
I. Neiders and V. Dranseika 2023. Death and personal identity: An empirical study on folk metaphysics. Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Medicine. Eds. K. Hens and A. De Block. Bloomsbury. Pp. 191-213.
V. Dranseika, S. Nichols, and N. Strohminger N. 2023. Which kind of sameness? Disambiguating two senses of identity with a novel linguistic task. Cognition 238: 105545.
T. Żuradzki and V. Dranseika. 2022. Reasons to genome edit and metaphysical essentialism about human identity. American Journal of Bioethics 22(9): 34–36.
V. Dranseika 2022. Memory as evidence of personal identity: A study on reincarnation beliefs. Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self. Ed. K. Tobia. Bloomsbury. Pp. 127–142.
K. Michaelian, V. Dranseika, and J. Álvarez. 2021. Experimental philosophy of memory. Acta Scientiarum: Human and Social Sciences 43: e60875.
V. Dranseika, C. J. McCarroll, and K. Michaelian. 2021. Are observer memories (accurate) memories? Insights from experimental philosophy. Consciousness and Cognition 96: 103240.
Y.-T. Lin and V. Dranseika. 2021. The variety and limits of self-experience and identification in imagination. Synthese 199: 9897–9926.
V. Dranseika. 2021. Authenticity, self-defining memories, and the direction of change. AJOB Neuroscience 12(1): 48–49.
V. Dranseika. 2020. False memories and quasi-memories are memories. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy (Volume 3). Eds. T. Lombrozo, S. Nichols, and J. Knobe. Oxford University Press. Pp. 175–188.
V. Dranseika, J. Dagys, and R. Berniūnas. 2020. Proper names, rigidity, and empirical studies on judgments of identity across transformations. Topoi 39(2): 381–388.
I. Neiders and V. Dranseika. 2020. Minds, brains, and hearts: An empirical study on pluralism concerning death determination. Monash Bioethics Review 38(1): 35–48.
V. Dranseika. 2017. On the ambiguity of 'the same person'. AJOB Neuroscience 8(3): 184–186.
R. Berniūnas and V. Dranseika. 2016. Folk concepts of person and identity: A response to Nichols and Bruno. Philosophical Psychology 29(1): 96–122.