The Thirteenth Confrence of the International Society for Utilitarian studies
Happiness and Human Well-being Reconsidered: Concept, History and Measurement
August 20 - 22, 2014
Venue for the 1st & 2nd day: Yokohama National University
Venue for the 1st & 2nd day: Yokohama National University
9:30- Registration
Wednesday, 20
August
Wednesday, 20
August
10:00- Welcome address (Arie, Daisuke: YNU & Schofield, Philip: UCL)
10:15-10:35 Welcome, and the Aim of the Key Theme
Happiness and Human Well-being Reconsidered: Concept, History and Mesurement
at Hall, Library
at Hall, Library
Fukagai, Yasunori (YNU)
at Hall, University Library
10:35- Short announcement and short break
9:30 - 12:00
9:30 - 12:00
10:50- Keynote Lecture: Michael Lobban
(( 12:00- lunch in campus ))
I-1
Wednesday, 20
August
sessions
Ⅰ
13:15 - 15:00
sessions
Ⅱ
15:15 - 16:30
Philosophical Issues of Consequentialism
chair : Persson, Ingmar
Chancy Goods & Well-Being Pluralism
Vong, Gerard (Fordham University)
Caring and Well-being
Narita, Kazunobu (Keio University)
How should a utilitarian answer the question “Why be moral?”
Sugimoto, Shunsuke (Kyoto University)
A Solution to the Trolley Problem
Øverland, Gerhard (University of Oslo)
B
Room :
Preference, Number, and Time
Separability and the value of longevity
Hirose, Iwao (McGill University)
I-4
Preference, Indifference and Ambivalence
Boot, Martijn (Waseda University)
Counting the Numbers Fairly: The Maximal Proportional
Satisfaction of Incommensurable Values
Chapman, Bruce (University of Toronto)
Parfit on Aggregating Future Utilities for Environmental Policy
chair : Bradley, Ben
Iseda, Tetsuji (Kyoto University)
II-2
chair : Takashima, Kazuya
Consequentialism and Moral Reasons
Does Fulfillment of Mere Past Desires (and Other Similar Desires)
Matter?
Morimura, Susumu (Hitotsubashi University)
Consequentialism, Well-Being, and Other-Regarding or Evil
Mental States
Suzuki, Makoto (Nanzan University)
J. S. Mill’s Critics of the Scientific Foundations of J. Bentham’s
Utilitarianism
Akdere, Cinla (Middle East Technical University)
until 15:30
Pluralism about Reasons and Agent-units in Consequentialism:
Why Actualism and Possibilism are not incompatible
Ando, Kaoru (Kobe University)
A Benthamite Solution to the Easterlin’s Paradox (es)
Pellegrino, Gianfranco (LUISS Guido Carli, Rome)
C
Room :
A
Room :
15:15 - 16:30
18:10- announcement
Luck, Inequality, and the Priority Veiw
chair : Hirose, Iwao
chair : Sparrow, Robert James
III-3
Hume, Smith and Marx relative to Utilitarianism
chair : Lieberman, David
On Parfitian Prioritarianism and the Separateness of Persons
Brain-Machine Interface and Human Well-Being Reconsidered
III-4 Utilitarianism and Public Opinion
Ⅲ
10:00 - 11:45
Tachibana, Koji (Kumamoto University)
Unequal well-being in political philosophy and in epidemiology: a
remarrige
Eyal, Nir (Harvard University)
Nakazawa, Eisuke (University of Tokyo)
Global Luck Egalitarianism and International Migration
Holtug, Nils (University of Copenhagen)
Yamamoto, keiichiro (University of Tokyo)
A
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B
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(( 11:50- lunch in campus ))
Thursday, 21
August
Thursday, 21
August
chair : Kaino, Michihiro
David Hume: Happiness and Economics
Cohen Kaminitz, Shiri (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem）
The Tribunal of society: public opinion
Rudan, Paola (University of Bologna)
On the Meaning of the Layered and Evolutionary Structure of
“Utility” in Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiment
Public Opinion and Delusion: Bentham on Representative
Democracy
Obata, Shuntaro (Seikei University)
Taka, Tetsuo (Kyushu sangyo University)
‘Inestimable blessing’: the role of the liberty of the press in James
Mill’s political thought
Grint, Kris (Bentham Project, University College London)
Utilitarianism and Marx
Matsui, Satoshi (Senshu University)
F
Room :
E
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at Hall, Library
14:20- announcement
IV-2
ROUND TABLE 1
chair : Itai, Hiroaki
Visiting the Project of Transcribe
Bentham
at Hall, University Library
with the Demo and Traial of
Transcribe Bentham and some data
bases including ECCO, NII-REO etc
Room :
V-1
Thursday, 21
August
Measurement of Well-being
chair : Chapmann, Bruce
sessions
14:45 - 16:30
Hall, Library
chair : Fukagai, Yasunori
Soeldner, Tobias (German Institute for Japanese Studies Tokyo
(DIJ) / Humboldt-University of Berlin)
Utilitarianism and personal good
Bader, Ralf (University of Oxford)
Kasai, Takato (Doshisha University・PhD student)
Household Happiness and Mutual Help: Empirical Analysis in the
Case of Married Couple
Hagiwara, Risa (Keio University)
16:45 - 18:30
E
Room :
Patarnalism or Cultivation
sessions
Ⅲ
10:00 - 11:45
09:30 - 11:15
Bentham and his influence upon the 1830s campaign to abolish
transportation to New South Wales
Causer, Timothy (Bentham Project, University College London)
Mill’s notion of Qualitative Superiority of Pleasure: A Splendid
Utilitarian Outlook Revisited
Mitra, Madhumita (Vidyasagar College)
Constitution and Modernization. The translations of Jeremy
Bentham’s works in Portugal between 1821 and 1853
(Per)happiness, Performative Language and the Figure of
Automaton: reading the deconstructive wedge of Felicific Calculus
Guidi, Marco Enrico Luigi (University of Pisa)
Lupetti, Monica
Mill on Paternalism Against the best judge argument
Wakamatsu, Yoshiki (Gakushuin University)
Classical Utilitarianism and the Centrality of Education and SelfCultivation
Habibi, Don (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
E
Room :
F
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G
Utilitarianism and Economic Thought
chair : Kawana, Yuichiro (Kyoto)
A Plea for a Man of System: Bentham and Smith on Political
Economy in the (Art and) Science of the Legislator
III-6
Utilitarian Indirect Legislation
chair : de Champs, Emmanuelle
From Indirect Legislation to Nudge: a Possible Way to Understand
Bentham’s Normative Framework?
Bozzo-Rey, Malik (Lille Catholic University)
Quinn, Michael (Bentham Project, University College London)
Utilitarianism in the British Early-Socialism; William Thompson’s
Revision of the Principle of Utility and Gender Equality
Jeremy Bentham on Government and Indirect Legislation: Régime
of publicity, Enlightenment, and Discipline
Itai, Hiroaki (Tokyo College of Transport Studies)
Hijikata, Naobumi (Chuo University)
Malthus’s criticism of Paine’s Rights of Man
Nakazawa, Nobuhiko (Kansai University)
C
Room :
Indirect legislation and Utility Study of the effectiveness of
indirect legislation
Brunon-Ernst, Anne
(Panthéon-Assas University / Centre Bentham)
G
Room :
Thursday, 21
August
(proposed session)
IV-5
Moral Enhancement and Neuroscience
chair : Crisp, Roger / Iseda, Tetsuji
A dialog between Rawls and Arrow on utilitarianism: focusing on
Arrow’s criticism of Rawls’s theory of justice
Should “Good Parents” and/or “Good Utilitarians” Approve
“Enhancement” Use of PGD?
Ibuki, Tomohide (National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry)
Making everybody too good?
Sparrow, Robert James (Monash University)
Saito, Nao (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Neurocognitive Enhancement and Eyewitness Memory – On the
Significance of Penal Theory
Ryberg, Jesper (Roskilde University)
Caring for Parents: A Rule-Consequentialist Approach
Sin, William (The Hong Kong Institute of Education)
Moral Enhancement, Self-Interest, and Social Welfare
Tachibana, Koji (Kumamoto University)
Public Selfishness, Private Altruism, and Below Replacement
Fertility
Gani, Mohammad (Independent Universtiy, Bangladesh)
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Will?
Thomsen, Frej (Roskilde University・Post-graduate researcher)
(Neuro)predictions and punishment of dangerous offenders: A way
out for retributivists?
The pursuit of happiness and the family in modern and
contemporary Japan: Social and political institutions as
facilitators and constraints to human well-being
Thursday, 21
August
Liberty, Virtue and Utility
chair : Habibi, Don / Ambrosi, G. Michael
A
Room :
G
Room :
E
Room :
G
The Concept of Well-being Reconsidered
chair : Woodard, Christopher
Naturalism in the Recent Well-Being Literature Supports
Naturalistic Moral Realism
Is Forgiveness Good for You?
Szigeti, Andras (University of Tromsø・Post Doc)
Should We Suffer At All?
Kodama, Satoshi (Kyoto University)
VI-2
Well-being and Applied Ethics
chair : Sin, William
Ethics and Finance: such a dilemma?
Mathon, Vincent-Emmanuel
(Doctor of Philosophy & Engineer・independent senior consultant)
Against Animal Experiments
Asano, Kozi (Toyota Technological Institute)
VI-3
Contemporary Issues of Utilitarianism
chair : Ando, Ksotu
Tracking Cost: Two Types of Emergencies
Haydar, Bashshar (American University of Beirut)
Øverland, Gerhard (University of Oslo)
VI-4
sessions
Ⅳ
14:45 - 16:30
Thursday, 21
August
16:45 - 18:30
Is virtue ethics elitist? A response to the critique of perfectionist
eudaimonism
Agnieszka, Anna Switalska (University of Warsaw・PhD student)
Foundationalism and Its Implications in J.S. Mill’s Moral
Philosophy
Eudaimonic aspects of utilitarianism by J. S. Mill
Filipow, Elżbieta (University of Warsaw・doctoral student)
chair : Narita, Kazunobu
A critical evaluation of the merits and limitations of utilitarianism
as a normative consideration in population policy
Mok, Francis (Hong Kong Institute of Education)
Partial Dualism and the No Self-Favoring View
Paytas, Tyler (Washington University in St. Louis・Graduate
Student)
Introducing Prospectism: A Population Axiology to Underpin
Neutrality
Social Sciences and Humanities
Sraman, Jewel (Mahamakut Buddhist University・student)
Happiness as a policy goal. Implications and opportunities
Fissi, Martina (University of Florence)
Room :
to be announced
Room :
to be announced
Yamamoto, Keiichiro (University of Tokyo)
Mill’s Utilitarianism and His View of Moral Normativity
Hsu, Hahn (National Chung Cheng University)
Character, Energy, and Democracy: the unity of virtues in J. S.
Mill’s political philosophy
Okamoto, Shimpei (Hiroshima University・Graduate Student)
Challenges for a revised view of Bentham on public reasoning
B
Room :
Shafe, James (University College London・PhD Candidate)
On the coexistence of utility and liberal principle in J. S. Mill’s
theory
Murata, Minami (Doshisha University・Master’s Course Student)
V-6
Utilitariansim and Contemporary Political
Philosophy
chair : Engelmann, Stephen
On the Durability of Utilitarianism as a Political Theory
Multiculturalism and secularism
Lægaard, Sune (Roskilde University)
Capability as Potentiality
Hashimoto, Tsutomu (Hokkaido University)
C
Room :
Room :
to be announced
Room :
to be announced
B
Room :
Venue for the third day: Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall (Yokohama Kaiko Kinen Kaikan) in Basha-Michi
VI-5
Happiness, Population and Policy Goal
Grill, Kalle (Umeå University)
Geopower and Wellbeing
Di Paola, Marcello (LUISS University, Rome ・Post-Doc)
chair : Nakano-Okuno, Mariko
The Certain Intrinsic Desirability of Pleasure
Persson, Ingmar (University of Gothenburg)
Ⅴ
Winkler, Chris (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)
F
Utilitarianism and Metaethics
Matsumoto, Masakazu (Kansai University)
Weber, Torsten (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)
Room :
IV-6
Bentham on Private Ethics
Takashima, Kazuya (Meiji University)
Petersen, Thomas (Roskilde University)
Holdgruen, Phoebe
(German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo)
Chonabayashi, Ryo (Cardiff University – post-doc)
Ⅵ
J. S. Mill on happiness, liberty, and education
Takamiya, Masaki
(Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences)
Shapiro, Carolyn (Falmouth University, Cornwall)
sessions
follows to Round Table Transcribe Bentham;
speakers will be announced soon
VI-1
sessions
Beccaria, Condorcet, Bentham : utility and democracy in the
European Enlightenment
de Champs, Emmanuelle (Université Paris 8)
chair : Komatzu, Kayoko
Venue for the third day: Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall (Yokohama Kaiko Kinen Kaikan) in Basha-Michi
Friday,
22 August
Bentham on the Genealogy of the Principle of Utility: “I Had It
from Epicurus”
Mixon, Jr., Rex W.
(New York University, Stern School of Business)
Eguchi, Satoshi (Kyoto Women’s University)
The Repugnant Conclusion and Our Imprecise Intuitive Grasp of
Well-Being
Is attitudinal hedonism a better version of hedonism?
Yonemura, Kotaro (Yokohama National University)
F
Room :
IV-4
Can mood enhancement threaten our authentic well-being?
Gustafsson, Johan (University of York)
Happiness in History of Economics: Inquiry into a New
Measurement of Happiness
chair : Katsuragi, Takao (Gakushuin)
New Research Method based on the Etexts and Text Editing
Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Pulbic Policy
chair : Akira, Inoue / Øverland, Gerhard
Do outstanding stakes get hammered down? Norm deviation and
its influence on happiness and life satisfaction in Japan,
Germany, and the US
V-2
ROUND TABLE 2
IV-3
sessions
Ⅴ
Kaino, Michihiro (Doshisha University)
Beccaria, Utilitarianism & Evidence-Based Crime Control
13:15 - 14:30
IV-1
Ⅳ
Bentham’s Pannomion and the Anglo-American Legal History
chair : Dube, Allison / Nakai, Daisuke
Liu, Jiabo
(Institutional Affiliation Mississippi Valley State University)
Gourlay, Kristi (University College London・PhD Student)
Bentham’s Three Theories of Law
Zhai, Xiaobo
(Zhengzhou University, and University College London)
Beccaria, Bentham and Diffusion
at Hall, University Library
13:10 - 14:30
Thursday, 21
August
The problematic nature of the concept of Happiness
Dubrac, Anne-Laure (Université Paris-Diderot, Paris XII)
I-7
((11:50- ISUS Business Meeting ))
13:10- Keynote Lecture: Ben Bradley
at Hall, Library
chair : Quinn, Michael / Mixon, Jr. Rex W.
Utility vs Tradition: Bentham's Use of History to Undermine the
Significance of History or Law
III-5
Inoue, Akira (Ritsumeikan University)
sessions
Happiness and Virtue in Classical Utilitarianism
16:50-18:15
III-2
(proposed session)
I-6
Wednesday, 20
August
Room: A
17:00- Keynote Lecture: Mariko Nakano-Okuno (Ohio State)
III-1
Wednesday, 20
August
Common Law and/vs Pannomion
chair : Bozzo-Rey, Malik
II-5
Ⅱ
16:50- Welcome address (Suzuki, Kunio: The President YNU)
Room: A
16:50-18:15
13:15 - 15:00
sessions
Facets of Moral Duty and the Choice between Act- and RuleConsequentialism
Andric, Vuko (University of Mannheim)
B
Room :
Ⅰ
D
Room :
chair : Kodama, Satoshi
Wednesday, 20
August
sessions
The Functional Approach to The Concept of Good and
Consequentialism
Saja, Krzysztof (University of Szczecin)
Hwang, Paul (Northfield Mount Hermon・PhD Student)
Utilitarianism and Methodological Basis
I-5
Well-being and Desire Satisfaction Theory
Am I happier as a teacher if my students understand my lecture? ;
implications of the role theory for the preference satisfaction view
of human welfare
What does the intertemporal choice in behavioral economics mean
in utilitalianism philosophy?
Yaguchi, Yuichi (Keio University)
C
Room :
I-3
chair : Holtug, Nils / Gustafsson, Johan
The Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm and the
Preemption Problem
Yoshizawa, Fumitake (Chiba University・PhD Student)
Tanikawa, Taku (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science・
research fellow)
Welfare Subjectivism, Valuing, and Desire
Woodard, Christopher (University of Nottingham)
Wednesday, 20
August
Thursday, 21
August
I-2
chair : Bader, Ralf
II-1
Wednesday, 20
August
Well-being and Value Theory
Friday,
22 August
Economic and Political Philosophy from Bentham to Rawls
chair : Guidi, Marco
Utilitarianism and Eugenics: Some Aspects of Pigou’s Welfare
Economics
Yamazaki, Satoshi (Kochi University)
sessions
Ⅵ
09:30 - 11:15
VI-6
Jurisprudence and Demmocracy
chair : Obata, Shuntaro
Happiness and Justice: Bentham on Courts in Democracy
Lieberman, David (University of California, Berkeley)
Bentham’s Biopolitics
Engelmann, Stephen (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Jeremy Bentham: Architect of Jurisprudence
Long, Douglas (University of Western Ontario)
Paternalistic Ideas in the Nineteenth Economic Thought
Bentham was right. Was he?
Jiménez Sánchez, José Joaquin (University of Granada)
Nakai, Daisuke (Kinki University)
VI-7
Utilitarianism and Social Reform
chair : Himeno, Junichi (Nagasaki)
Chrestomathia: exploded and unexploded shells within Bentham’s
plans for education
Dube, Allison Douglas (Mount Royal University)
The Educational Thoughts of Utilitarianism: Focusing on the
position of art education
Komatsu, Kayoko (Tokyo University of the Arts)
Bentham and Utilitarian’s Influence on Public Park Movement in
England
Sugio, Kunie
(PREC Institute Inc.・Representative Director and President)
Room :
to be announced
Room :
to be announced
Room :
to be announced
VI-8
Classical Eudaimonism in East and West
chair : Zhai, Xiabo
On Spiritual Freedom and Happiness–A study of Zhaungzi’s
Philosophy
Jiang, Xinyan (University of Redlands)
Aristotle and the satisfaction of needs – concept and measurement
Ambrosi, G. Michael (University of Trier)
The Rise and Decline of ‘Confucian Capitalist Thesis’ in East Asia:
Confucianism, Utilitarianism, and Economic Development
Arie, Daisuke (Yokohama National University)
Room :
to be announced