Registration
If you would like to attend, please send an email to workshoponwelfare@gmail.com by 19 June.
Keynotes
- Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Hilary Greaves (Oxford University)
Further Speakers
- Willem van der Deijl (Tilburg University)
- Jonas Harney (TU Dortmund University)
- Luca Hemmerich (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Hasko von Kriegstein (Humboldt Foundation/Toronto Metropolitan University)
- Yuqi Liang (Oxford University)
- Mauro Rossi (Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Luca Stroppa (University of Turin)
- Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University Kraków)
Information on the workshop
Considerations about the nature or the value of welfare, its distribution, or welfare-based claims and complaints are central to moral philosophy. They are of particular concern for all philosophers who take welfare to be (at least) one source for normative reasons. Evaluative and deontic considerations about welfare provide an array of fascinating philosophical questions.
It is (quite) uncontroversial that welfare has moral value and provides moral reasons; but it is highly contested how in particular. We ought not to harm people, but do we also ought to benefit them? Does this include future people – even if their existence depends on our actions? And can we aggregate people’s welfare, or should we limit the trade-offs between their harms and benefits?
Our account of welfare has implications for ethics; but do ethical considerations also provide reasons to adopt one or another theory of welfare? What is the interaction between theories of welfare and the ethics of welfare?
Some lives are better and some are worse; but what constitutes their prudential value? Are well-being and ill-being analogous or do they differ in structure and relevance – and what do particular theories imply? What are the relevant underlying concepts of desire, pleasure, friendship, or other objective goods on which welfare may depend?
Wednesday, 2 July
11:00 – 11:15 Welcome and Introduction
11:15 – 12:00 Hasko von Kriegstein (Toronto Metropolitan University/Humboldt Foundation): The Prudential Value of Correspondence between Mind and World
12:30 – 13:15 Mauro Rossi (Université du Québec à Montréal): Ill-Being and Fitting Unhappiness
Lunchbreak
14:15 – 15:00 Willem van der Deijl (Tilburg University): The good experience account of wellbeing
15:30 – 16:15 Yuqi Liang (Oxford University): Peak Experiences
16:45 – 18:15 Chris Heathwood (University of Colorado, Boulder): Are Adaptive Preferences a Problem for Subjective Theories of Well-Being?
19:30 Dinner
Thursday, 3 July
10:00 – 10:45 Luca Hemmerich (Goethe University Frankfurt): Three Accounts of Irreducibly Collective Interests
11:15 – 12:00 Luca Stroppa (University of Turin): Soritical Superiority
12:30 – 13:15 Jonas Harney (TU Dortmund University): Prospects of Welfare Losses
Lunchbreak
14:15 – 15:00 Tomasz Żuradzki (Jagiellonian University Kraków): Welfare and Identity: Beyond the Distinction Between Person-Affecting and Identity-Affecting Interventions
15:30 – 17:00 Hilary Greaves (Oxford University): For goodness’ sake
18:30 Dinner
The workshop is organised by Jonas Harney (TU Dortmund University), Thorsten Helfer (Saarland University), Maximilian Klein (Saarland University) and Hasko von Kriegstein (Toronto Metropolitan University) and generously supported by UdS Professorship for Practical Philosophy, the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP), and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.