The John Stuart Mill
Bicentennial Conference
1806 2006
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U n iv ersity C ollege L on d on
5 - 7 April 2006
PROGRAMME
Hosted by:
The Bentham Project
Sponsored by:
The British Academy
under the auspices of
The International Society for Utilitarian Studies
and
The ‘Political Thought’ Specialist Group of The Political
Studies Association of the United Kingdom
TUESDAY - 4 APRIL 2006
16.00-20.00: Registration - Keeton Room
The Conference Registration and Help Desk will be located in the Keeton Room,
Bentham House, at the following times:
Tuesday
Thursday
16:00-20.00
08:30-10:00
Wednesday
Friday
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08:30-11:30
08:30-10:00
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At all other times it will be located in the Bentham Project offices, 5 Floor, Bentham
House.
Conference Helpline: the Helpline is open from 09:00 to 19:00 on each day of the
Conference. Telephone 020 7679 1513 (21513 onUCL internal phones).
All plenary sessions will be held in the Chemistry Auditorium, Department of
Chemistry, Gordon Street.
All panels will be held in Bentham House, Faculty of Laws, UCL, Endsleigh Gardens.
The Conference Dinner on Wednesday, 5 April 2006 will be held in the Jeremy
Bentham Room, UCL Main Building.
The Conference Dinner on Thursday, 6 April 2006 will be held in the Old Refectory,
UCL Main Building. Mr. Bentham will be in attendance.
Key to Rooms in Bentham House:
The Keeton Room is on the Ground Floor
MLT - Main Lecture Theatre (Basement)
MCR - Moot Court Room (Ground Floor)
SRI
- Seminar Room 1 (Basement)
SR4 - Seminar Room 4 (Basement)
GS101 - Gideon Schreier 101 (Gideon Schreier Wing, 1st Floor)
GS201 - Gideon Schreier 201 (Gideon Schreier Wing, 2nd Floor)
GS301 - Gideon Schreier 301 (Gideon Schreier Wing, 3rd Floor)
Rooms GS202 and GS302 are available to Conference Participants for
informal or private meetings. Please book the room you require at the
Conference Registration Desk.
Room 301 (3rd Floor) is available for quiet study.
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WEDNESDAY - 5 APRIL 2006
Venue: Keeton Room
08.30 - 09.30: Registration
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
09.30 - 09.40: Welcome: Dr. Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of
London)
09.40 - 10.00: Plenary Address: Professor J. H. Burns (UCL)
10.00 - 10.30: Keynote Lecture: Professor Ann Robson (Toronto):
Title: ‘A “Crisis” in Fashion’
Chair: Professor J. H. Burns (UCL)
10.30 - 10.40: Welcome Address: Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost
of UCL
10.30 - 11.30: Keynote Lecture: Professor John Skorupski (St Andrews)
Title: ‘Liberalism as Free Thought’
Chair: Professor J. B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins)
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11.30- 11.45: Tea/coffee break
11.50 - 12.45: Keynote Lecture: Professor Jonathan Riley (Tulane)
Title: ‘Justice as Higher Pleasure’
Chair: Professor Terence Ball
12.45 - 14.00: Lunch break
13.00 An inaugural meeting of the European Network of Utilitarian Scholars,
convened by Professor Manuel Escamilla (Granada), will be held in the Main
Lecture Theatre, Bentham House. All are welcome
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
14.00 - 15.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor James Griffin (Oxford)
Title: ‘What sort of liberty should we have?’
Chair: Professor David Weinstein (Wake Forest)
Venue: Bentham House
15.00 - 15.30: Tea/coffee break
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15.30 - 17.00: Panels Session 1
PANEL A /I
Title:
Chair:
Joseph Miller
Annabelle Lever
Peter Niesen
PANEL B /l
Title:
Chair:
Ben Eggleston
Dale Miller
David Weinstein
Room M L T
POLITICS
Mill and Representation
Jonathan Wolff
Of Factions and Proportional Voting: Madison and
Mill on ‘tyranny o f the majority’
John Stuart Mill and the Secret Ballot: A Critical
Appraisal
Bentham and J.S. Mill on parliamentary deliberation
Room MCR
UTILITY
The Tncoherency’ of Mill’s Rule Utilitarianism
Brad Hooker
Rules and their reasons: Mill on instrumentally rational
action and the requirements of morality
Is Millian Rule Utilitarianism Incoherent?
The “Strange Tangles” of Mill’s “Moral Almanack”
PANEL C/1
Title:
Chair:
David J. Garren
Christopher Finlay
Room SR I
ETHICS
Mill’s International Political Thought
Gunhild Hoogensen
A Few Questions for Mill on Non-Intervention
Rethinking Non-Intervention in J.S. Mill and Michael
Walzer
PANEL D/1
Title:
Chair:
Ingmar Persson
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Mill’s On Liberty revisited
Filimon Peonidis
Mill’s Principle of Liberty and the Distinction between
Self and Others
Harm, Self-Regarding Conduct and Liberty:
Understanding Mill’s Harm Principle
Employing a hierarchical conception of the self in On
Liberty
M. J. Mulnix
Sujith Kumar
Room GS101
PANEL E/1-1
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Mill, France, and Platonic Ideals
Duncan Kelly
Richard Whatmore
The young Mill’s view of France and his relationship
with Etienne Dumont and Jean-Baptiste Say
Mary Bentham’s influence on J S Mill
Mill and Platonic Ideals of Public Life
Catherine Pease-Watkin
Stanley Yake
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Room GS201
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Utilitarianism, Empire and Colonisation
Bart Schultz
Imperial Ambivalence: John Stuart Mill and the Lessons
of Colonial Excess
John Stuart Mill on Empire and Civilisation
Adelaide: The Ideal City of the Philosophic Radicals,
and The Great Experiment in the Art of Colonization
PANEL E/l-2
Title:
Chair:
Katherine Smits
Yasunori Fukagai
Kelly Henderson
17.15 - 19.00: Panels Session 2
PANEL A/2
Title:
Chair:
Prof. J.D. Ruiz Resa
Daniel S. Malachuk
José García-Añón
Room M L T
POLITICS
Liberalism, multiculturalism and diversity
Filimon Peonidis
Mill and Political Representation in a Multicultural
Society
Mill’s Perfectionism and Liberal Theory
An approach to the veil problem through John Stuart
Mill’s ideas
PANEL B/2
Title:
Chair:
Anthony Skelton
Bart Schultz
David Weinstein
Room MCR
UTILITY
John Stuart Mill and Henry Sidgwick
John Skorupski
Mill, Sidgwick, and the Problem of Free Will
Mill versus Sidgwick on Imperialism
Comment
PANEL C/2
Title:
Chair:
Terence Ball
Vincent Guillin
Maria Teresa Pichetto
Room SR I
ETHICS
Mill, ‘Ethology’ and Biology
Georgios Varouxakis
Mill’s ‘Ethology’ Revisited
An Historical and Philosophical Appraisal of John
Stuart Mill’s Biological Culture
The Diffusion of J. S. Mill in Italy
PANEL D/2
Title:
Chair:
Thomas Shirk Petersen
Jesper Ryberg
Robert Garmong
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Liberalism and the Law
Colin Tyler
On the Disintegration of Legal Moralism
Crime prevention, privacy rights and CCTV
John Stuart Mill’s Neo-Liberalism
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PANEL F/2
Title:
Chair:
Salim Rashid and
Ed McPhail
Alex Haw
Philip Lucas and
Anne Sheeran
Room GS201
BENTHAM
The genius of Jeremy Bentham
J.E. Crimmins
Jeremy Bentham, James Anderson and practical
economic development
The Panopticon
Asperger’s syndrome explains both the eccentricity
and the genius of Jeremy Bentham
19.00: Close
19.30 for 20.00: Conference Dinner I: Jeremy Bentham Room, UCL Main Building.
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THURSDAY 6 APRIL 2006
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
09.00 - 10.00: Keynote Lecture: Professor Ross Harrison (UCL)
Title: ‘Making free with liberty’
Chair: Professor Paul Kelly (LSE)__________________________
10.00 —10.15: Tea/coffee break
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
10.15 - 11.15: Keynote Panel:
Chair: Dr Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London)
Speakers:
(1) Professor Bruce Kinzer (Kenyon College):
‘The Primacy of the Political and the Problem of Cultural Authority in an Age of
Transition’
(2) Professor Donald Winch (Sussex):
‘Wild Natural Beauty and the Religion of Humanity: Mill’s Credentials as a “Green”
Thinker’
Venue: Bentham House
11.20 - 12-45: Panels Session 3
PANEL B/3-1
Title:
Chair:
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Michael Quinn
Stephen Nathanson
PANEL B/3-2
Title:
Chair:
Alan E. Fuchs
Eric Moore
Rex Martin
UTILITY
Economy and Poverty
Peter Niesen
Room MLT
Mill on Poverty, Population, and Poor Relief: Out of
Bentham by Malthus?
John Stuart Mill on Economic Justice and the
Alleviation of Poverty
UTILITY
Rule Utilitarianism
Dale Miller
Mill on Moral Rules and the Art of Life
Mill’s Sanction Utilitarianism
Two Concepts of Rule Utilitarianism
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Room MCR
PANEL C/3
Title:
Chair:
Jean-Paul Vessel
Raquel Díaz Seijas
Room SR I
ETHICS
Consequential) sm. Utilitarianism, and the Law
Jonathan Wolff
Defending a Possibilist Insight in Consequentialist
Thought
Putting aside utilitarianism in search of utility: The
ethical and legal philosophy of Martin Diego Farrell
Kimberley Brownlee
Room SR4
LIBERTY
The Value of Knowledge
Helen Pringle
Mill & The Moral Economy of Ideas
The Phantoms of Liberty: Mill and the Knowledge
Economy
The Utility of Dissent
PANEL E/3-1
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Literature and Economics
Marco Guidi
David Gore
Denise Lovett
Gregory Claeys
J.S. Mill’s Rhetoric of Economic Inquiry
J.S. Mill, Corporate Disclosure, and Trollope’s The Way
We Live Now
John Bull Dissatisfied: On Liberty and Family Values
PANEL E/3-2
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Mill’s Autobiography
Wendy Donner
Paschalis M. Kitromilides
Kevin O'Rourke
Autobiography as Political Theory
Whose life is it anyway?: Mill’s Autobiography and its
legacy
The Dread of Living in the Shadow: A Comparative
Study of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography and Robert
Louis Stevenson’s Memories and Portraits
PANEL D/3
Title:
Chair:
Hans Vilh. Hansen
Malcolm Quinn
Harish Chander
PANEL F/3
Title:
Chair:
Stephen Engelmann
Melissa Schwartzberg
Jean-Pierre Cléro
Room GS301
Room GS101
Room GS201
BENTHAM
Master and Pupil
Ross Harrison
Bentham and Mill on Art and ‘Social Science’
Bentham and J.S. Mill on Infallibility
John Stuart Mill as a reader of the Bentham’s theory of
fictions
12.45 - 14.00: Lunch break
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Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
14.00 - 15.30: Keynote Lecture: Professor Peter Singer (Princeton)
Title: ‘Mill’s Relevance: A Personal View’
Chair: Dr Roger Crisp (Oxford)
Venue: Bentham House
15.30 - 16.00: Tea/coffee break
16.00 - 17.15: Panels Session 4
PANEL A /4
Title:
Chair:
Julia Skorupska
Laura J. Snyder
José Montoya
Room M LT
POLITICS
Mill’s politics
H.S. Jones
Liberalism and Politics: Reading Mill as a ‘Political’
Theorist
Freedom from Necessity: The Influence of J.S. Mill’s
Politics on his Concept of Causation
J.F. Stephen on fraternity
Philippe Légé
Room MCR
UTILITY
Mill in the twentieth century
Bart Schultz
Nationalism and Democracy: Mill’s influence on John
Rawls
Hayek’s Readings of Mill
PANEL C/4
Title:
Chair:
R.G. Frey
Robin Lawlor
Gerald Lang
ETHICS
Mill and Utilitarianism
Ben Eggleston
Does Act-Utilitarianism Have a Future
Scalar Utilitarianism
Mill’s Modesty
PANEL D/4
Title:
Chair:
Helen Pringle
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Mill on Free Speech
Jonathan Wolff
The Curious Incident of the Policeman in the Night­
time: John Stuart Mill, Speech and Respect
Mill’s Early Theory of Free Speech
John Stuart Mill’s Theory of Thought and Speech
PANEL B/4
Title:
Chair:
Catherine Audard
Filimon Peonidis
Marta Bisbal Torres
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Room SR I
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Room GS101
Mill’s influence and reception
Donald Winch
Gladstone and John Stuart Mill: an intellectual history
of Mill’s influence on Gladstone’s political and
economic philosophy
Alfred Balfour’s Cambridge and the reaction against
Mill
PANEL E/4
Title:
Chair:
Todd Campbell
James McGeachie
Room GS201
BENTHAM
Bentham, Mill, punishment, and religion
Marco Guidi
Bentham and Punishment of the Innocent
J.S. Mill’s Religious Thought and the Benthamite
Tradition of the Critique of Religion
PANEL F/4
Title:
Chair:
Rex Mixon
Daisuke Arie
17.15-17.30: Break
17.30 - 19.00: Panels Session 5
PANEL A/5
Title:
Chair:
Nicholas Capaldi
Eldon Eisenach
Robert Devigne
Discussant 1
Discussant 2
PANEL B/5
Title:
Chair:
José de Sousa e Brito
Katarzyna de LazariRadek
Souad Chaherly-Harrar
Room M LT
POLITICS
Mill and the Classic Liberal Tradition
Robert Devigne
J.S. Mill: Romantic Liberal, not Romantic Radical
Migrations of Spirit in Mill’s Theory of History
Cultivating the Individual and Society: J.S. Mill’s Use
of Ancient and Romantic Dialectics
John Skorupski
Steven Smith
Room MCR
UTILITY
Mill’s proof of the principle of utility
Bart Schultz
Bentham, Mill and Kant on the Proof of Utilitarianism
Sidgwick’s answer to Mill’s proof
Mill’s proof of the principle of utility: Its ontological
foundations
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PANEL C/5
Title:
Chair:
Nils Holtug
Mark Lukas
Vance Ricks
PANEL D/5
Title:
Chair:
Pedro Frances Gómez
John Wadham
Andrea Houchard
Room SR I
ETHICS
Ethics, justice, and well-being
Dale Miller
Personal Identity and the Temporal Scope of
Prioritarian Justice
Desire accounts of Well-Being and Irrelevant Desires
Mill’s Metaethics - A Preliminary Account
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Mill and rights
Rex Martin
John Stuart Mill and a pragmatic defence of Human
Rights
A Right to Freedom of Action?
Maybe Natural Rights are Nonsense: the importance of
social recognition
Room GS101
PANEL E/5
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Mill as a public intellectual
Ross Harrison
Richard Reeves
Jeff Lipkes
Partisan Mill
“Religious Neutrality” in Godless Gower Street: A
Contested Appointment at University College London,
1866
PANEL F/5
Title:
Chair:
James E Crimmins
Marco Guidi
Emmanuelle de Champs
Room GS201
BENTHAM
The reception of Bentham
Peter Niesen
Mill on Bentham
“Everybody to count for one, nobody for more than
one”. The Principle of Equal Consideration of Interests
from Bentham to Edgeworth
Bentham in French: From Dumont to the Centre
Bentham
19.00: Close
19.00 for 19.30: Conference Dinner II: Old Refectory, UCL Main Building.
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FRIDAY 7 APRIL 2006
Venue: Bentham House
09.00 - 10.00: Panels Session 6
PANEL B/6
Title:
Chair:
Jorge Menezes-OIiveira
Huei-chun Su
Room MCR
UTILITY
Happiness, justice, and liberty
Nadia Urbinati
John Stuart Mill: Offensive Behaviour and the Harm
Principle
Happiness as Justice and Liberty: A New Perspective
of John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism
PANEL C/6
Title:
Chair:
Ariel del Rio and Pedro
Francés Gómez
Harry Stopes-Roe
Room SR I
ETHICS
Rationality and human nature
Dale Miller
An Inductive Account of Rationality and Morality
through a Contribution to Evolutionary Game Theory
Mill’s ethical problems and human nature
PANEL D/6
Title:
Chair:
José L Tasset
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Mill on religion
Georgios Varouxakis
Hume and Mill on “Utility of Religion”: A Borgean
Garden of Forking Paths?
Mill’s The Utility o f Religion in comparative
perspective
Gerardo López Sastre
Room GS101
PANEL E/6-1
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Mill and Poetry
Roger Crisp
Graham Finlay
John Daniel Ward
‘Over-Romanticizing Mill’
Poetry, Philosophy and Utility: The Role of John Stuart
Mill’s Theory of Poetry
PANEL E/6-2
Title:
Chair:
Colin Tyler
Room GS201
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Mill and the Idealists
David Weinstein
British Idealist Responses to J.S. Mill’s Considerations
on Representative Government
Was Green a Utilitarian in Practice? Green and Mill on
Crime and Punishment
Thom Brooks
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10.05 - 11.30: Panels Session 7
PANEL A/7-1
Title:
Chair:
Lauren M.E. Goodlad
Renzo Llorente
Pilar Gonzalez Altable
Room GS201
POLITICS
Mill on modernity, socialism, and democracy
Gregory Claeys
Mill and Modernity
Critical Reflections on Mill’s View of Socialism
Democracy, Liberty and Political Tolerance
PANEL A/7-2
Title:
Chair:
Dana Villa
Nadia Urbinati
Glyn Morgan
Room M LT
POLITICS
Mill on Progress and Despotism
Kirstie McClure
Mill, Maturity, and Paternalism
The Many Heads of the Hydra: J.S. Mill on Despotism
J.S. Mill, Progress, and Liberal Reform
PANEL B/7
Title:
Chair:
Daniel Calicut
Room MCR
UTILITY
Mill’s contemporary relevance
J. B. Schneewind
Mill and Williams: From Sentimentalism to
Skepticism?
A Contemporary Reflection on Political Education and
Democracy in J.S. Mill
Reading Mill Seriously
Pedro Mercado
EsDeranza Guisan
PANEL C/7
Title:
Chair:
Karsten Klint Jensen
Jackson H. Mugerwa
Gunhild Hoogensen
PANEL D/7
Title:
Chair:
Lorenzo Zucca
Mauro Cardoso Simoes
Manuel Escamilla
Room SR I
ETHICS
Utility, security, and justice
Roger Crisp
Superiority in Quality and non-Archimedean value
orderings
Utility, Justice and Rights: Mill’s Dilemma
Human Security and Human Capabilities
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Freedom, rights, and minorities
Ross Harrison
Mill and the Right to Privacy
The Conception of Freedom according to John Stuart
Mill
Minorities and Individuals
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Room GS101
PANEL E/7
Title:
Chair:
HISTORY/LITERATURE
The reception of Mill
David Weinstein
Steven J. Macias
Mill’s Influence on Nineteenth Century American
Thought
Mill and Chinese Enlightenment in the Early 20th
Century
Cultivating Liberalism
Xinyan Jiang
Pura Sánchez Zamorano
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
11.45 - 12.45: Keynote Lecture: Professor Wendy Donner (Carleton)
Title: ‘John Stuart Mill and Virtue Ethics and Politics’
Chair: Professor Paschalis M. Kitromilides (Athens, Greece)
12.45 - 14.00: Lunch break
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
14.00 - 15.30: Keynote Lecture: Professor Martha Nussbaum (Chicago)
Title: ‘Mill’s Feminism: Liberal, Radical, and Queer’
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Chair: Professor Jonathan Wolff (UCL)
Venue: Bentham House
15.30
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16.30: Panels Session 8
PANEL A/8
Title:
Chair:
Adam Streed
Juana Maria Gil
Room ML T
POLITICS
Mill and gender equality
Helen Pringle
Mill’s Radical Feminism
John Stuart Mill and Gender Violence: weaknesses and
strengths of Mill’s Thought
PANEL B/8
Title:
Chair:
José Jiménez Sánchez
Miguel Catalán González
UTILITY
Mill, private life, and virtue
J.B. Schneewind
Mill’s Club
Private Life as a Political Virtue
PANEL C/8
Title:
Chair:
Blanca Rodríguez López
Room SRI
ETHICS
Motives and intuitions
Nadia Urbinati
What can we do with counter-intuitive consequences?
The role of moral intuitions in moral reasoning
Mill and Davies on Motives and Intentions
Christoph Schmidt-Petri
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Room MCR
PANEL D/8
Title:
Chair:
François-Régis Mahieu
and Enrico Zorzi
Krishna Kant Jha
Room SR4
LIBERTY
Mill’s relevance for Development
Paul Kelly
John Stuart Mill precursor of James S. Coleman and
Amartya Sen in Development policy
J.S. Mill and his Relevance in Human Development in
the Twenty-First Century with Reference to
Developing Countries
PANEL E/8
Title:
Chair:
Bernard Burgyone
Giovanni Giorgini
HISTORY/LITERATURE
Room GS101
Mill and Grote
Richard Bourke
Mill, Grote, Freud
Victorian Platos - John Stuart Mill, George Grote and
the Use of the Classics in XlXth Century England
16.30 - 16.45: Tea/coffee break
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
16.45 - 17.45: Keynote Lecture: Professor Fred Rosen (UCL)
Title: ‘Parallel Lives in Logic: The Benthams and the Mills’
Chair: Professor J. B. Schneewind (Johns Hopkins)
Venue: Chemistry Auditorium
17.45 - 19.30: Round Table
Chair:
Professor Peter Singer (Princeton)
Participants: Professor Brian Barry (LSE-Columbia)
Dr Roger Crisp (Oxford)
Dr Dale Miller (Old Dominion)
Dr Helen Pringle (UNSW)
Professor Donald Winch (Sussex)
19.30: Close
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