Abstracts
Abstracts for Conference Papers Sorted By Author
Andrić, Vuko
The Objective Consequentialist vs. Karpov
Affiliation: Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Arie, Daisuke
Leslie Stephen’s Agnosticism and Victorian Debate on Faith and Science
Affiliation: Yokohama National University, Department of Global Economic Studies, International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Schedule Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Ashford, Elizabeth
The Right to Subsistence, Negative Rights, and Intrapersonal Trade-offs
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of St. Andrews
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Ben-David, Arnon
Security, Equality, Impartiality, and Bentham's Dictum
Affiliation: Independent Scholar
Schedule Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Bozzo-Rey, Malik
Could Indirect Legislation Produce Legal Norms?
Affiliation: Maître de Conférences en Ethique Economique et Philosophie du Management, Responsable du Centre Ethique Economie Entreprise (C3E) in Département d'Ethique at Université Catholique de Lille
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Brunon-Ernst, Anne
Indirect Legislation in EU Policy Making - The Case of the Open Method of Coordination
Affiliation: Centre Bentham (IEP, Paris)
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Chapman, Bruce
Counting the Numbers Fairly: The Equal Proportional Satisfaction of Incommensurable Values
Affiliation: Faculty of Law at University of Toronto
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Cléro, Jean-Pierre
On The Ambiguous Status of Pleasure in Bentham's Theory Of Fictions
Affiliation: Centre Bentham - Paris, Professor of Philosophy at University of Rouen
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Cohen, Shiri
Economics and Ethics Meet Under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth's 'Exact Utilitarianism' (1877-1881)
Affiliation: Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Conly, Sarah
Against Autonomy
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Bowdoin College
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Crisp, Roger
David Phillips on Sidgwick: Some Comments by Roger Crisp
Affiliation: St. Anne’s College, Oxford University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
de Champs, Emmanuelle
Bentham, Voltaire, and Biblical Exegesis
Affiliation: Université Paris 8, Centre Bentham
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
de Sousa e Brito, José
From Utilitarianism to Kantism: Climbing the Same Mountain
Affiliation: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Driver, Julia
Consequentialism and Normative Fictionalism
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Dube, Allison
High Impact Practices in Utilitarian Theory and Practice
Affiliation: Assistant Professor in Department of General Education at Mount Royal University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Eggleston, Ben
Thinking Like a Utilitarian
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Kansas
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Eijaz, Rana
Morality: The Solitary Heal of Hate
Affiliation: University of the Punjab, Department of Political Science
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Engelmann, Stephen
Mill, Darwin, and Utilitarian Moral Science
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Erlandsson, Arvid (Presenter): Ph.D.- student, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Berg, Emil: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Dahlén, Lovisa: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Impression Formation of Utilitarian & Intuitive Helping
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Escamilla-Castillo, Manuel
Parallel Lives in the Cadiz Cortes
Affiliation: Department of Legal Philosophy at Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Eyal, Nir
Against Fair Chances
Affiliation: Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Gustafsson, Johan E.
Combinative Consequentialism and the Problem of Act Versions
Affiliation: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Hammer, Carl
When is Utilitarian Thinking Appropriate?
Affiliation: Baruch College, Department of Philosophy
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Hatzihristou Kellis, Alessandro
Benthamism in Southern Europe: A Work in Progress
Affiliation: EUI – History and Civilization Department
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Holtermann, Jakob v. H.
Philosophical Misconstruals in the Advocacy for Restorative Justice
Affiliation: Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Jiménez Sánchez, José J.
If Bentham Had Read…
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Granada
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Kaino, Michihiro
Bentham’s Codification Theory in the Context of the Globalization
Affiliation: Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Klint Jensen, Karsten
Aggregating Animal Welfare
Affiliation: Institute of Food and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Kumar, Dr. Sujith
The Four Criteria for Punishment in Mill's Moral Theory
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Political Science at DePaul University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Lieberman, David
Jeremy Bentham: Jurisprudence and Democratic Theory
Affiliation: School of Law at University of California, Berkeley
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Macias, Steven J.
An American Benthamite on Freedom of Speech: The Case of Thomas Cooper
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Marciniak, Angela
Overcoming Uncertainty - New Thoughts on Bentham's Conception of Security
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Mathon, Vincent-Emmanuel
The Green Sustainability Matrix, or How to Make Energy Savings in Corporate Buildings Profitable
Affiliation: Ph.D of Philosophy, Professional Trainer & Senior Consultant in Sustainability and Management
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Mezeix, Marie Capucine (Presenter), Ph.D student in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
Alain Fernex, Assistant Professor in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
A Problematization of the Concept of Utility: Bentham's Chrestomathic Project
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Mendola, Joseph
Multiple-Act Consequentialism and Losses From Defection
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Miller, Dale E.
“In a Cool Hour”: Reactive Attitudes and the Hare-Williams Debate
Affiliation: Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Co-Director, Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m- 3:30 p.m.
Moehler, Michael
Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and the Veil of Ignorance
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Mosekjær, Kasper
Practical Problems With the Concept of ‘Emergency’ in the Balance Between Civil Liberties and Security
Affiliation: Ph.D Fellow, Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics at Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Moss, Justin
Demandingness, Fairness, and Promoting the Good: Modifying the Collective Principle of Beneficence
Affiliation: Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Washburn University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Nakai, Daisuke
Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought - Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Sidgwick
Affiliation: Faculty of Economics at Kinki University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Niesen, Peter
Bentham's Cosmopolitanism: Theory and Practice
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Sometimes Psychopaths Get it Right: A Utilitarian Response to 'The Mismeasure of Morals'
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Pellegrino, Gianfranco
The Impossibility of the Happiness Pill: Bentham's Argument for Liberal Neutrality
Affiliation: Bentham Project (UCL)
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Petersen, Thomas Søbirk
Ethics, Crime Prevention and Prenatal Testing for Antisocial Personality Disorder
Affiliation: Ph.D, Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy in Department for Philosophy and Science Studies at Roskilde University (CUID)
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Peterson, Martin
The Right or The Good?
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Section for Philosophy and Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Phillips, David
"Sidgwickian Ethics": Phillips' Responses
Affiliation: University of Houston
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Picoli, Rogerio Antonio
A Study of Some of the Bentham's Positions in Metaethics
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Methods at Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Qizilbash, Mozaffar
The Mere Addition Paradox, Parity and Vagueness: The Parity View Reconsidered
Affiliation: Department of Economics and Related Studies and School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of York
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Quinn, Malcolm
Bentham and Hume on Social Standards of Taste
Affiliation: Associate Dean of Research in CCW Graduate School at University of the Arts London
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Rendall, Dr. Matthew
Mere Addition and The Separateness of Persons: A Candidate for Theory X
Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations at University of Nottingham
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Rosen, Fred
Mill as a Socratic
Affiliation: University College London
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Ross, Andrew P.
Exploiting the Catastrophe Clause
Affiliation: Queen’s University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Ruiz-Resa, Josefa-Dolores.
1812: National Identity and Political Education in the Cadiz Constitution
Affiliation: Faculty of Law in Department of Philosophy of Law at Universidad de Granada
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Russo, Raffaele
The Fourth Impostor
Affiliation: University of Trento
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Ryberg, Jesper
Punishment and Pharmacological Rehabilitation
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy & Science Studies at Roskilde University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Sachs, Benjamin
The Deficiency of Consequentialist Moral Explanations
Affiliation: Program in Environmental Studies and Center for Bioethics, New York University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Schofield, Philip
The New Edition of Jeremy Bentham’s Not Paul, But Jesus
Affiliation: Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws at UCL
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Sebo, Jeff
Utilitarianism, Multiplicity, and Dirty Hands
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, at New York University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Shafe, James
Beyond Aggregative and Deliberative Democratic Theory
Affiliation: Ph.D Student at UCL School of Public Policy
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Shapiro Wyatt, Dr. Carolyn
“Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living”: Reading the Felicity of the Body in Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Department of Writing at University College Falmouth
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Shaver, Robert
Phillips on Utilitarianism and Agent-Relativity
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m- 10:45 a.m.
Shaver, Robert
Sidgwick’s Axioms and Consequentialism
Affiliation: Philosophy, University of Manitoba
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Skelton, Anthony
Phillips on Sidgwick’s Meta-ethics and his Argument for Utilitarianism
Affiliation: University of Western Ontario
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Sorensen, Roy
Lying with Arguments
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Su, Dr. Huei-chun
Mill’s Distinction of Higher and Lower Pleasures Revisited
Affiliation: Department of Economic History at London School of Economics
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m
Thomsen, Frej Klem
Who Will Save ’Ought’ Now? Compatibilism, Retributivism and criminal responsibility
Affiliation: Ph.D, Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy & Science Studies at Roskilde University, Denmark
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30a.m.
Turner, Piers Norris
Progress and Organization: How Representative Government Explains On Liberty
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Weinstein, David
What Use is Intellectual History for Moral Thinking?
Affiliation: Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
West, Henry R.
Two Foundations for Early Utilitarianism: Bentham and Paley
Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Wigley, Simon
Justice-Adjusted Utilitarianism: Prioritizing the Right or the Good?
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Winsby, Meghan
Promises to Children
Affiliation: Ph.D candidate in Department of Philosophy at University of Western Ontario
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Wrobel, Claire
Utilitarianism and Literature – On the Role of Fiction in Bentham’s Penal Thought
Affiliation: Ph.D, Lecturer in legal English, Member of the Centre Bentham
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Yamazaki, Satoshi
Need and Distribution in Pigou's Economic Thinking
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Kochi University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Zhai, Xiaobo
Command Versus Rule - Bentham and Hart on the Foundation of a Legal System
Affiliation: Faculty of Laws at University College London
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Abstracts for Conference Papers Sorted By Title
1812: National Identity and Political Education in the Cadiz Constitution
Josefa-D. Ruiz-Resa
Affiliation: Faculty of Law in Department of Philosophy of Law at Universidad de Granada
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
A Problematization of the Concept of Utility: Bentham’s Chrestomathic Project
Mezeix, Marie Capucine, Ph.D student in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
Alain Fernex, Assistant Professor in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
A Study of Some of the Bentham's Positions in Metaethics
Rogerio Antonio Picoli
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Methods at Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Against Autonomy
Sarah Conly
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Bowdoin College
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Against Fair Chances
Nir Eyal
Affiliation: Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Aggregating Animal Welfare
Karsten Klint Jensen
Affiliation: Institute of Food and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
An American Benthamite on Freedom of Speech: The Case of Thomas Cooper
Steven J. Macias
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Bentham and Hume on Social Standards of Taste
Malcolm Quinn
Affiliation: Associate Dean of Research in CCW Graduate School at University of the Arts London
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Bentham, Voltaire, and Biblical Exegesis
Emmanuelle de Champs
Affiliation: Université Paris 8, Centre Bentham
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Bentham’s Codification Theory in the Context of the Globalization
Michihiro Kaino
Affiliation: Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Bentham's Cosmopolitanism: Theory and Practice
Niesen, Peter
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Benthamism in Southern Europe: A Work in Progress
Alessandro Hatzihristou Kellis
Affiliation: EUI – History and Civilization Department
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Beyond Aggregative and Deliberative Democratic Theory
James Shafe
Affiliation: Ph.D Student at UCL School of Public Policy
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Combinative Consequentialism and the Problem of Act Versions
Johan E. Gustafsson
Affiliation: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Command Versus Rule - Bentham and Hart on the Foundation of a Legal System
Xiaobo Zhai
Affiliation: Faculty of Laws at University College London
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Consequentialism and Normative Fictionalism
Julia Driver
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Could Indirect Legislation Produce Legal Norms?
Malik Bozzo-Rey
Affiliation: Maître de Conférences en Ethique Economique et Philosophie du Management, Responsable du Centre Ethique Economie Entreprise (C3E) in Département d'Ethique at Université Catholique de Lille
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Counting the Numbers Fairly: The Equal Proportional Satisfaction of Incommensurable Values
Bruce Chapman
Affiliation: Faculty of Law at University of Toronto
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:00 p.m.
Demandingness, Fairness, and Promoting the Good: Modifying the Collective Principle of Beneficence
Justin Moss
Affiliation: Ph.D., Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Washburn University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Economics and Ethics Meet Under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth's 'Exact Utilitarianism' (1877-1881)
Shiri Cohen
Affiliation: Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Ethics, Crime Prevention and Prenatal Testing for Antisocial Personality Disorder
Thomas Søbirk Petersen
Affiliation: Ph.D, Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy in Department for Philosophy and Science Studies at Roskilde University (CUID)
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Exploiting the Catastrophe Clause
A.P. Ross
Affiliation: Queen’s University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
“Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living”: Reading the Felicity of the Body in Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon
Dr. Carolyn Shapiro Wyatt
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Department of Writing at University College Falmouth
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
From Utilitarianism to Kantism: Climbing the Same Mountain
José de Sousa e Brito
Affiliation: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
High Impact Practices in Utilitarian Theory and Practice
Allison Dube
Affiliation: Assistant Professor in Department of General Education at Mount Royal University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m
If Bentham Had Read…
José J. Jiménez Sánchez
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Granada
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Impression Formation of Utilitarian & Intuitive Helping
Arvid Erlandsson (Presenter), Ph.D.- student, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Emil Berg, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Lovisa Dahlén, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
“In a Cool Hour”: Reactive Attitudes and the Hare-Williams Debate
Dale E. Miller
Affiliation: Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Co-Director, Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Indirect Legislation in EU Policy Making - The Case of the Open Method of Coordination
Anne Brunon-Ernst
Affiliation: Centre Bentham (IEP, Paris)
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Jeremy Bentham: Jurisprudence and Democratic Theory
David Lieberman
Affiliation: School of Law at University of California, Berkeley
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m-3:30 p.m.
Justice-Adjusted Utilitarianism: Prioritising the Right or the Good?
Simon Wigley
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Leslie Stephen’s Agnosticism and Victorian Debate on Faith and Science
Daisuke Arie
Affiliation: Yokohama National University, Department of Global Economic Studies, International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Schedule Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Lying With Arguments
Roy Sorensen
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Mere Addition and The Separateness of Persons: A Candidate for Theory X
Dr. Matthew Rendall
Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations at University of Nottingham
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Mill as a Socratic
Fred Rosen
Affiliation: University College London
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Mill, Darwin, and Utilitarian Moral Science
Stephen Engelmann
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Mill’s Distinction of Higher and Lower Pleasures Revisited
Dr. Huei-chun Su
Affiliation: Department of Economic History at London School of Economics
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Morality: The Solitary Heal of Hate
Eijaz, Rana
Affiliation: University of the Punjab, Department of Political Science
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m- 3:30 p.m.
Multiple-Act Consequentialism and Losses From Defection
Joseph Mendola
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Overcoming Uncertainty - New Thoughts on Bentham's Conception of Security
Angela Marciniak
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Parallel Lives in the Cadiz Cortes
Escamilla-Castillo, Manuel
Affiliation: Department of Legal Philosophy at Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Phillips on Sidgwick’s Meta-ethics and his Argument for Utilitarianism
Anthony Skelton
Affiliation: University of Western Ontario
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m
Phillips on Utilitarianism and Agent-Relativity
Robert Shaver
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Phillips’ Sidgwick
Roger Crisp
Affiliation: St. Anne’s College, Oxford University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Phillips' Responses
David Phillips
Affiliation: University of Houston
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
Philosophical Misconstruals in the Advocacy for Restorative Justice
Jakob v. H. Holtermann
Affiliation: Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Practical Problems with the Concept of ‘Emergency’ in the Balance Between Civil Liberties and Security
Kasper Mosekjær
Affiliation: Ph.D Fellow, Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics at Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Progress and Organization: How Representative Government Explains On Liberty
Affiliation: Piers Norris Turner
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Promises to Children
Meghan Winsby
Affiliation: Ph.D candidate in Department of Philosophy at University of Western Ontario
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Punishment and Pharmacological Rehabilitation
Jesper Ryberg
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy & Science Studies at Roskilde University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Security, Equality, Impartiality, and Bentham's Dictum
Arnon Ben-David
Affiliation: Independent Scholar
Schedule Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Sidgwick’s Axioms and Consequentialism
Robert Shaver
Affiliation: Philosophy, University of Manitoba
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Sometimes Psychopaths Get it Right: A Utilitarian Response to 'The Mismeasure of Morals'
Tyler Paytas
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
The Fourth Impostor
Raffaele Russo
Affiliation: University of Trento
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Deficiency of Consequentialist Moral Explanations
Benjamin Sachs
Affiliation: Program in Environmental Studies and Center for Bioethics, New York University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
On The Ambiguous Status of Pleasure in Bentham's Theory Of Fictions
Jean-Pierre Cléro
Affiliation: Centre Bentham - Paris, Professor of Philosophy at University of Rouen
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
The Four Criteria for Punishment in Mill's Moral Theory
Dr. Sujith Kumar
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Political Science at DePaul University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Green Sustainability Matrix, or how to make Energy Savings in Corporate Buildings Profitable
Vincent-Emmanuel Mathon
Affiliation: Ph.D of Philosophy, Professional Trainer & Senior Consultant in Sustainability and Management
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Impossibility of the Happiness Pill: Bentham's Argument for Liberal Neutrality
Pellegrino, Gianfranco
Affiliation: Bentham Project (UCL)
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
The Mere Addition Paradox, Parity and Vagueness: the Parity View Reconsidered
Mozaffar Qizilbash
Affiliation: Department of Economics and Related Studies and School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of York
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
The New Edition of Jeremy Bentham’s Not Paul, But Jesus
Philip Schofield
Affiliation: Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws at UCL
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Objective Consequentialist vs. Karpov
Vuko Andrić
Affiliation: Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
The Right or The Good?
Martin Peterson
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Section for Philosophy and Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
The Right to Subsistence, Negative Rights, and Intrapersonal Trade-offs
Elizabeth Ashford
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of St. Andrews
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Thinking Like a Utilitarian
Ben Eggleston
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Kansas
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought - Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Sidgwick
Daisuke Nakai
Affiliation: Faculty of Economics at Kinki University
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Two Foundations for Early Utilitarianism: Bentham and Paley
Henry R. West
Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Utilitarianism and Literature – On the Role of Fiction in Bentham’s Penal Thought
Claire Wrobel
Affiliation: Ph.D, Lecturer in legal English, Member of the Centre Bentham
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Utilitarianism, Multiplicity, and Dirty Hands
Jeff Sebo
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, at New York University
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and the Veil of Ignorance
Michael Moehler
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
What Use is Intellectual History for Moral Thinking?
David Weinstein
Affiliation: Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University
Scheduled Time: Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.
When is Utilitarian Thinking Appropriate?
Carl Hammer
Affiliation: Baruch College, Department of Philosophy
Scheduled Time: Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Who Will Save ’Ought’ Now? Compatibilism, retributivism and criminal responsibility
Affiliation: Frej Klem Thomsen
Affiliation: Ph.D., Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy & Science Studies at Roskilde
University, Denmark
Scheduled Time: Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Abstracts for Conference Papers Sorted By Schedule
Thursday, August 9, 9:00 a.m- 10:30 a.m.
Brunon-Ernst, Anne
Indirect Legislation in EU Policy Making - The Case of the Open Method of Coordination
Affiliation: Centre Bentham (IEP, Paris)
Eggleston, Ben
Thinking Like a Utilitarian
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Kansas
Erlandsson, Arvid (Presenter): Ph.D.- student, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Berg, Emil: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Dahlén, Lovisa: Department of Psychology, Lund University, Sweden
Impression Formation of Utilitarian & Intuitive Helping
Kaino, Michihiro
Bentham’s Codification Theory in the Context of the Globalization
Affiliation: Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
Moss, Justin
Demandingness, Fairness, and Promoting the Good: Modifying the Collective Principle of Beneficence
Affiliation: Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Washburn University
Niesen, Peter
Bentham's Cosmopolitanism: Theory and Practice
Affiliation Technische Universitat Darmstadt
Paytas, Tyler
Sometimes Psychopaths Get it Right: A Utilitarian Response to 'The Mismeasure of Morals'
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Qizilbash, Mozaffar
The Mere Addition Paradox, Parity and Vagueness: The Parity View Reconsidered
Affiliation: Department of Economics and Related Studies and School of Politics, Economics and Philosophy, University of York
Rendall, Dr. Matthew
Mere Addition and The Separateness of Persons: A Candidate for Theory X
Affiliation: Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations at University of Nottingham
The Deficiency of Consequentialist Moral Explanations
Affiliation: Program in Environmental Studies and Center for Bioethics, New York University
Sebo, Jeff
Utilitarianism, Multiplicity, and Dirty Hands
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, at New York University
Sorensen, Roy
Lying with Arguments
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis
Thursday, August 9, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Conly, Sarah
Against Autonomy
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at Bowdoin College
de Champs, Emmanuelle
Bentham, Voltaire, and Biblical Exegesis
Affiliation: Université Paris 8, Centre Bentham
Escamilla-Castillo, Manuel
Parallel Lives in the Cadiz Cortes
Affiliation: Department of Legal Philosophy at Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Hammer, Carl
When is Utilitarian Thinking Appropriate?
Affiliation: Baruch College, Department of Philosophy
Hatzihristou Kellis, Alessandro
Benthamism in Southern Europe: A Work in Progress
Affiliation: EUI – History and Civilization Department
Klint Jensen, Karsten
Aggregating Animal Welfare
Affiliation: Institute of Food and Resource Economics at University of Copenhagen
Mathon, Vincent-Emmanuel
The Green Sustainability Matrix, or How to Make Energy Savings in Corporate Buildings Profitable
Affiliation: Ph.D of Philosophy, Professional Trainer & Senior Consultant in Sustainability and Management
Miller, Dale E.
“In a Cool Hour”: Reactive Attitudes and the Hare-Williams Debate
Affiliation: Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Co-Director, Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs at Old Dominion University
Ruiz-Resa, Josefa-D.
1812: National Identity and Political Education in the Cadiz Constitution
Affiliation: Faculty of Law in Department of Philosophy of Law at Universidad de Granada
Russo, Raffaele
The Fourth Impostor
Affiliation: University of Trento
Ryberg, Jesper
Punishment and Pharmacological Rehabilitation
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy & Science Studies at Roskilde University
Schofield, Philip
The New Edition of Jeremy Bentham’s Not Paul, But Jesus
Affiliation: Bentham Project, Faculty of Laws at UCL
Friday, August 10, 9:00 a.m- 10:45 a.m.
Arie, Daisuke
Leslie Stephen’s Agnosticism and Victorian Debate on Faith and Science
Affiliation: Yokohama National University, Department of Global Economic Studies, International Graduate School of Social Sciences
Cléro, Jean-Pierre
On The Ambiguous Status of Pleasure in Bentham's Theory Of Fictions
Affiliation: Centre Bentham - Paris, Professor of Philosophy at University of Rouen
Crisp, Roger
Phillips’ Sidgwick
Affiliation: St. Anne’s College, Oxford University
Dube, Allison
High Impact Practices in Utilitarian Theory and Practice
Affiliation: Assistant Professor in Department of General Education at Mount Royal University
Engelmann, Stephen
Mill, Darwin, and Utilitarian Moral Science
Affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago
Mezeix, Marie Capucine (Presenter), Ph.D student in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
Alain Fernex, Assistant Professor in Laboratory of Educational Sciences at Pierre Mendès France University
A Problematization of the Concept of Utility: Bentham's Chrestomathic Project
Moehler, Michael
Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and the Veil of Ignorance
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech
Pellegrino, Gianfranco
The Impossibility of the Happiness Pill: Bentham's Argument for Liberal Neutrality
Affiliation: Bentham Project (UCL)
Phillips, David
"Sidgwickian Ethics": Phillips' Responses
Affiliation: University of Houston
Shafe, James
Beyond Aggregative and Deliberative Democratic Theory
Affiliation: Ph.D Student at UCL School of Public Policy
Shaver, Robert
Phillips on Utilitarianism and Agent-Relativity
Affiliation: University of Manitoba
Skelton, Anthony
Phillips on Sidgwick’s Meta-ethics and his Argument for Utilitarianism
Affiliation: University of Western Ontario
Su, Dr. Huei-chun
Mill’s Distinction of Higher and Lower Pleasures Revisited
Affiliation: Department of Economic History at London School of Economics
Weinstein, David
What Use is Intellectual History for Moral Thinking?
Affiliation: Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University
Friday, August 10, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Andrić, Vuko
The Objective Consequentialist vs. Karpov
Affiliation: Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, Germany
Ben-David, Arnon
Security, Equality, Impartiality, and Bentham's Dictum
Affiliation: Independent Scholar
Chapman, Bruce
Counting the Numbers Fairly: The Equal Proportional Satisfaction of Incommensurable Values
Affiliation: Faculty of Law at University of Toronto
Eijaz, Rana
Morality: The Solitary Heal of Hate
Affiliation: University of the Punjab, Department of Political Science
Holtermann, Jakob v. H.
Philosophical Misconstruals in the Advocacy for Restorative Justice
Affiliation: Centre for Studies in Legal Culture, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Jiménez Sánchez, José J.
If Bentham Had Read…
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Granada
Kumar, Dr. Sujith
The Four Criteria for Punishment in Mill's Moral Theory
Affiliation: Adjunct Professor of Political Science at DePaul University
Marciniak, Angela
Overcoming Uncertainty - New Thoughts on Bentham's Conception of Security
Affiliation: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Mendola, Joseph
Multiple-Act Consequentialism and Losses From Defection
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rosen, Fred
Mill as a Socratic
Affiliation: University College London
Shapiro Wyatt, Dr. Carolyn
“Farther Uses of the Dead to the Living”: Reading the Felicity of the Body in Jeremy Bentham’s Auto-Icon
Affiliation: Senior Lecturer in Department of Writing at University College Falmouth
Turner, Piers Norris
Progress and Organization: How Representative Government Explains On Liberty
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Ohio State University
Saturday, August 11, 9:00 a.m.- 10:30 a.m.
Cohen, Shiri
Economics and Ethics Meet Under the Same Umbrella: Edgeworth's 'Exact Utilitarianism' (1877-1881)
Affiliation: Research Fellow at the Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
Driver, Julia
Consequentialism and Normative Fictionalism
Affiliation: Washington University in St. Louis
Gustafsson, Johan E.
Combinative Consequentialism and the Problem of Act Versions
Affiliation: Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, France
Nakai, Daisuke
Three Dimensions of Classical Utilitarian Economic Thought - Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Sidgwick
Affiliation: Faculty of Economics at Kinki University
Peterson, Martin
The Right or The Good?
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Section for Philosophy and Ethics at Eindhoven University of Technology
Picoli, Rogerio Antonio
A Study of Some of the Bentham's Positions in Metaethics
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy and Methods at Universidade Federal de São João del Rei (UFSJ), Brazil
Quinn, Malcolm
Bentham and Hume on Social Standards of Taste
Affiliation: Associate Dean of Research in CCW Graduate School at University of the Arts London
West, Henry R.
Two Foundations for Early Utilitarianism: Bentham and Paley
Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at Macalester College
Wigley, Simon
Justice-Adjusted Utilitarianism: Prioritizing the Right or the Good?
Affiliation: Associate Professor in Department of Philosophy at Bilkent University
Wrobel, Claire
Utilitarianism and Literature – On the Role of Fiction in Bentham’s Penal Thought
Affiliation: Ph.D, Lecturer in legal English, Member of the Centre Bentham
Yamazaki, Satoshi
Need and Distribution in Pigou's Economic Thinking
Affiliation: Associate Professor, Kochi University
Saturday, August 11, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.
Ashford, Elizabeth
The Right to Subsistence, Negative Rights, and Intrapersonal Trade-offs
Affiliation: Department of Philosophy at University of St. Andrews
Bozzo-Rey, Malik
Could Indirect Legislation Produce Legal Norms?
Affiliation: Maître de Conférences en Ethique Economique et Philosophie du Management, Responsable du Centre Ethique Economie Entreprise (C3E) in Département d'Ethique at Université Catholique de Lille
de Sousa e Brito, José
From Utilitarianism to Kantism: Climbing the Same Mountain
Affiliation: Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Eyal, Nir
Against Fair Chances
Affiliation: Program in Ethics and Health at Harvard University
Lieberman, David
Jeremy Bentham: Jurisprudence and Democratic Theory
Affiliation: School of Law at University of California, Berkeley
Macias, Steven J.
An American Benthamite on Freedom of Speech: The Case of Thomas Cooper
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Mosekjær, Kasper
Practical Problems With the Concept of ‘Emergency’ in the Balance Between Civil Liberties and Security
Affiliation: Ph.D Fellow, Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics at Research Group for Criminal Justice Ethics
Petersen, Thomas Søbirk
Ethics, Crime Prevention and Prenatal Testing for Antisocial Personality Disorder
Affiliation: Ph.D, Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy in Department for Philosophy and Science Studies at Roskilde University (CUID)
Ross, A.P.
Exploiting the Catastrophe Clause
Affiliation: Queen’s University
Shaver, Robert
Sidgwick’s Axioms and Consequentialism
Affiliation: Philosophy, University of Manitoba
Winsby, Meghan
Promises to Children
Affiliation: Ph.D candidate in Department of Philosophy at University of Western Ontario
Zhai, Xiaobo
Command Versus Rule - Bentham and Hart on the Foundation of a Legal System
Affiliation: Faculty of Laws at University College London
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