UTILITARIANISM 2000 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

FRIDAY, MARCH 24, jump to Saturday or Sunday

7:00-9:00 p.m. WELCOMING REMARKS: D. Weinstein (Wake Forest University)
Thomas K. Hearn, President of Wake Forest University
(Main Conf. Room)

FEATURED SPEAKER: James Griffin, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy, "A Right to Life, A Right to Death" (Oxford University)
(Main Conf. Room)

Chair: William Twining (Center For Advanced Study in the Behavior Sciences, Stanford University)

Discussant: Nils Holtug (University of Copenhagen)

7:00-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00 a.m.

FEATURED SPEAKER: Samuel Scheffler, "Rawls and Utilitarianism" (University of California at Berkeley)
(Mews Conf. Room)

Chair: Andrew Cross (Wake Forest University)

Discussant: Wayne Sumner (University of Toronto)

10:30 a.m-12:00

PANEL 1-1 BENTHAM ON LIBERTY, LAW AND LEGISLATION
(Breakout 2)

Chair: David Lieberman (University of California at Berkeley)

"Jeremy Bentham, Legal Procedure and Utility," Tony Draper (UCL)

"Indirect Legislation and Liberty in Bentham's Thought," Hiroaki Jitai (Yokohama City University)

"Indirect Legislation: Bentham's Liberal Government," Stephen G. Engelmann (University of Illinois at Chicago)

"The Structure of Jeremy Bentham's Economic and Financial Jurisprudence," Yoshio Nagai (Kanto Gakuin University)

PANEL 1-2 UTILITARIANISM AND BRITISH IDEALISM I
(Seminar Room)

Chair: D. Weinstein (Wake Forest University)

"Three Methods and Dualism: A Reassessment of Sidgwick's Methods of Ethics," John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews)

"T. H. Green and the Common Good," David Brink (University of California at San Diego)

"Green's Critique of Utilitarianism: Strengths and Weaknesses," Maria Dimova- Cookson (UCL)

PANEL 1-3 SOCIAL CHOICE AND PRACTICAL RATIONALITY
(Management I)

Chair: Karsten Klint Jensen (University of Copenhagen)

"Principles, Goals and Symbolic Expressions: An Evaluation of Nozick's Theory of Practical Rationality," Gerald Gaus (University of Minnesota at Duluth)

"Deliberation and Social Choice Theory," Jonathan Aldred (Cambridge University)

"Utilitarianism and Good Actions," Ben Bradley (Virginia Tech University)

Discussant: Ben Eggleston (University of Pittsburgh)

PANEL 1-4 RESCUING CONSEQUENTIALISM
(Mews 1)

Chair: Tim Mulgan (University of Auckland)

"Consequentialism, Obligation as Tryings and the Ought Implies Can Principle," Elinor Mason (Arizona State University)

"Can We Objectively Rescue Consequentialism From Disaster?" Henri Nzitat (University of Caen)

"Thomson and the Semantic Argument Against Consequentialism," David Phillips (University of Houston)

Discussant: Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

PANEL 1-5 CONSEQUENTIALISM AND POPULATION
(Management 3)

Chair: John Troyer (University of Connecticut)

"Population Principles with Flexible Critical Levels," Charles Blackorby (University of British Columbia), Walter Bossert (Rice University) David Donaldson (University of British Columbia)

"Rule Utilitarianism and Population Size," Jonathan Riley (Tulane University)

Discussant: Tyler Cowen (George Mason University)

Discussant: Thomas Hurka (University of Calgary)

PANEL 1-6 DEATH, KILLING, HARM AND PAIN
(Bernard Cottage)

Chair: Jonathan Malino (Guilford College)

"The Badness of Death, The Wrongness of Killing and the Moral Importance of Autonomy," Samantha Brennan (University of Western Ontario)

"Life-prolonging Killings: A Puzzle for Deontologists," Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)

"Agent-Neutrality and Pain," Stuart Rachels (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa)

"Consequentialism and Group Harms," Alastair Norcross (University of Arizona)

12:00-1:30 p.m. LUNCH

PANEL 2-1 THE UNITY OF BENTHAM'S RADICALISM
(Breakout 2)

Chair: J. Joseph Miller (University of Virginia)

"Bentham's Religious Radicalism Revisited," Jim Crimmins (University of Western Ontario)

"Jeremy Bentham, the French Revolution and Political Reform," Philip Schofield (UCL)

"Methodological Implications of Bentham's Idea of Economic Policy: From Defense of Usury to True Alarm," Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University)

"The Evolution of Jeremy Bentham's Economic Ideas," Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

PANEL 2-2 RULE CONTRA ACT CONSEQUENTIALISM REVISITED
(Seminar 1)

Chair: Brad Hooker(University of Reading)

"Act-Utilitarianism and Moral Thinking," R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University)

"Rule Utilitarianism and Decision Theories," Daniel E. Palmer (Purdue University)

"Practical Equilibrium: An Act-Utilitarian-Friendly Approach to Moral Theory Selection," Ben Eggleston (University of Pittsburgh)

"Can Consequentialism Cover Everything?" Bart Streumer (University of Reading)

PANEL 2-3 VINDICATING WELL-BEING AND OBJECTIVISM
(Bernard Cottage)

Chair: Tom Warke (University of Sheffield)

"Objectivism Made Good," Andrew Moore (University of Otago)

"A More Than Half-Hearted Defense of Mill's Proof of the Principle of Utility," Geoff Sayre-McCord (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

"On the Vindication of Welfare," Anthony Skelton (University of Toronto)

"Proposal for 'A Set of Solutions to Parfit's Problems,'" Stuart Rachels (University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa)

PANEL 2-4 FUTURE GENERATIONS AND BEING BORN
(Management 3)

Chair: Dale Jamieson (Carleton College)

"On the Value of Coming into Existence," Nils Holtug (University of Copenhagen)

"Does Feldman's Desert-Adjusted Utilitarianism Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?" Gustaf Arrhenius (University of Toronto)

"Moral Principles and the Claim From Adoption," Thomas Petersen (University of Copenhagen)

Discussant: Krister Bykvist, (Lund University)

PANEL 2-5 UTILITARIANISM AND BRITISH IDEALISM II
(Management 1)

Chair: Wayne Sumner (University of Toronto)

"Bentham's Theory of Logic and Language: An Idealist Perspective, Colin Tyler (UCL)

"Utilitarianism and Basic Rights," Rex Martin (University of Kansas and University of Wales)

"The Reconciliation Project: T. H. Green and Henry Sidgwick," Avital Simhony (Arizona State University)

Discussant: Gerald Gaus (University of Minnesota at Duluth)

3:30-5:00 p.m.

PANEL 3-1 ADAM SMITH, BENTHAM AND UTILITY
(Management 1)

Chair: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)

"The Idea of Utility in Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments," F. Rosen (UCL)

"Adam Smith on Justice, Rights and Law," David Lieberman (University of California at Berkeley)

"Bentham and Smith on Projectors: The Moral Psychology of Economic Liberalism," P. J. Kelly (LSE)

"Jeremy Bentham's Economic Thought," Michihiro Otonashi (Chuo University)

PANEL 3-2 SIDGWICK 2000
(Serminar Room)

Chair: Bart Schultz (University of Chicago)

"Sidgwick and Common Sense," Brad Hooker (University of Reading)

"Minimal Metaethics," Robert Shaver, (University of Manitoba)

"Sidgwick's Feminism," Bart Schultz (University of Chicago)

Discussant: John Skorupski (University of St. Andrews)

PANEL 3-3 ADDITIVITY AND INFINITE WORLDS
(Breakout 2)

Chair: Susumu Morimura (Hitotsubashi University)

"The Interpersonal Addition Theorem and the Priority View," Wlodek Rabinowicz (Lund University)

"Organic Unities, Weak Lexicality and the Additivity of Intrinsic Value," Erik Carlson (Uppsala University)

"Utilitarianism in Infinite Worlds," Joel David Hamkins (College of Staten Island), Barbara Montero (University of Chicago)

Discussant: David Donaldson (University of British Columbia)

PANEL 3-4 CONSEQUENTIALISM VS. DEONTOLOGY
(Bernard Cottage)

Chair: Michael Zimmerman (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)

"On the Distinction Between Consequentialism and Deontology," Ingmar Persson (Lund University)

"Could There Be a Middle Way Between Utilitarian and Deontological Approaches to Ethics?" John Dilworth (Western Michigan University)

"Combining Teleological Ethics with Evaluator Relativism: A Promising Result," Douglas W. Portmore (College of Charleston)

"Could Kant Have Been a Utilitarian?" Oliver Sensen (Harvard University)

PANEL 3-5 INTEGRITY AND SELF-SACRIFICE
(Mews 1)

Chair: Robert Noggle (Central Michigan University)

"Consequentialism and the Legitimacy of Separational Thinking," Brian Coleman (Purdue University)

"Moral Requirement Without Limit," David Kiron (Massachusetts Bay Community College)

"Utilitarianism and Self-Sacrifice," Clay Splawn (University of Massachusetts)

Discussant: Elizabeth Ashford (Oxford University)

PANEL 3-6 DISTRIBUTION, EGALITARIANISM AND UTILITY
(Management 3)

Chair: Bart Streumer (University of Reading)

"Utilitarianism and Distribution," John Troyer (University of Connecticut)

"Is the Egalitarian Impulse Utilitarian?" Sam Freemantle (UCL)

"Egalitarianism and Responsibility: Equality of Opportunity Defended," Peter Vallentyne (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Discussant: R. G. Frey (Bowling Green State University)

FEATURED SPEAKER: Thomas Hurka, "The Common Structure of Virtue and Desert" (University of Calgary)
(Mews Conf. Room)

Chair: F. Rosen (UCL)

Discussant: Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

7:30-8:30 p.m.

STEINTRAGER LECTURE: Brian Barry, "The Limits of Universalism" (Columbia University)
(Main Conf. Room)

Chair: Win-Chiat Lee (Wake Forest University)

7:00-8:30 a.m. BREAKFAST

8:30-10:00 a.m.

FEATURED SPEAKER: Shelly Kagan, "Does Moralized Consequentialism Have a Regress Problem?" (Yale University)
(Mews Conf. Room)

Chair: Michael Griffin (Wake Forest University)

Discussant: Peter Vallentyne (Virginia Commonwealth University)

10:30 a.m.-12:00

PANEL 4-1 UTILITARIANISM AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
(Mews 1)

Chair: John Dinan (Wake Forest University)

"Bentham on War," Gunhild Hoogensen (Athabasca University)

"Utilitarianism, Nationhood and International Politics," Georgios Varouxakis (Aston University)

"Utilitarianism, Secularism and the Future of Plural Societies," Mohan K. Vyas (University of Jodhpur)

Discussant: Philip Schofield (UCL)

PANEL 4-2 WHAT IS CONSEQUENTIALISM?
(Management 1)

Chair: Ingmar Persson (Lund University)

"What is Consequentialism? A Reply to Some Critics," Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Dartmouth College)

"Normative Supervenience and Consequentialism," Krister Bykvist (Lund University)

Discussant: Elinor Mason (Arizona State University)

PANEL 4-3 RULE-UTILITARIANISM, HARSANYI AND NECESSARY MORAL TRUTHS
(Seminar Room)

Chair: Daniel E. Palmer (Purdue University)

"To What Extent Rule-Utilitarianism Can Accept Necessary Moral Truths?" Brad Hooker (University of Reading)

"Harsanyi on Rule-Utilitarianism's Superiority Over Act-Utilitarianism," Dale E. Miller (Old Dominion University)

"Harsanyi on the Use of the Maximin in the Original Position," Donald Bruckner (University of Pittsburgh)

Discussant: Jonathan Riley (Tulane University)

PANEL 4-4 CONTRACTUALISM AND UTILITARIANISM
(Bernard Cottage)

Chair: John Dilworth (Western Michigan University)

"A Problem for Utilitarian Contractualism," Thaddeus Metz (University of the Witwatersrand)

"Contractualism, Utilitarianism and Risk- Imposition," James Lenman (University of Glasgow)

"Towards Another Reconciliation Project: Utilitarianism and Contractualism," Sheldon Wein (Saint Mary's University)

Discussant: Geoff Sayre-McCord (University of of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

PANEL 4-5 INTEGRITY AND IMPARTIALITY
(Breakout 2)

Chair: Alastair Norcross (University of Arizona)

"The Utilitarian Requirement of Impartiality," Erik Wingrove-Haugland (US Coast Guard Academy)

"Utilitarianism, Integrity and Partiality," Elizabeth Ashford (Oxford University)

"Utilitarianism and Nationalistic Duties," Jason Gatliff (Texas A & M University)

Discussant: Brian Coleman (Purdue University)

PANEL 4-6 CHARACTER AND CONSEQUENTIALISM
(Management 3)

Chair: Julia Driver (Dartmouth College)

"Impartiality and Associational Bonds," David Brink (University of California at San Diego)

"How Emotional is the Virtuous Person?" Simon Blackburn (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

BUSINESS MEETING WITH LUNCH
(Boardroom)

PANEL 5-1 VARIETIES OF CLASSICAL UTILITARIANISM
(Management 1)

Chair: Jim Crimmins (University of Western Ontario)

"A Reconstruction of Classical Utilitarianism," Tom Warke (University of Sheffield)

"Robert Owen and Utilitarianism," Naobumi Hijikata (Chuo University)

"Mixed Messages: J. S. Mill and the Problem of Authority," Don A. Habibi (University of North Carolina at Wilmington)

"Qualitative Hedonism and the Protection of Autonomy: Interpreting J. S. Mill's Moral Theory," J. Joseph Miller (University of Virginia)

PANEL 5-2 19th CENTURY ENGLISH LIBERAL UTILITARIANISM AND ITS RECEPTION
(Bernard Cottage)

Chair: Maria Dimova-Cookson (UCL)

"The Utilitarianism and Liberalism of John Stuart Mill," Dawn M. Gale (The University Kansas)

"J. S. Mill on Public Morality," Mark Williams (McMaster University)

"The Reception of Bentham and Mill in Early Modern Japan," Shigekaazu Yamashita (Kokugakuin University)

Discussant: Tony Draper (UCL)

PANEL 5-3 HYBRID CONSEQUENTIALISMS
(Management 3)

Chair: Henri Patrice Nzitat (University of Caen)

"Combined Consequentialism," Tim Mulgan (University of Auckland)

"On `Societal Value' as a Link Between Act-Utilitarianism and Rule-Utilitarianism," C. L. Sheng (Tamkang University)

"Progressive Consequentialism," Robert Elliot (University of the Sunshine Coast), Dale Jamieson (Carleton College)

Discussant: P.J. Kelly (LSE)

PANEL 5-4 HUMANITY, WELL-BEING AND THE NORMATIVE STATUS OF ALTERNATIVES
(Breakout 2)

Chair: Erik Carlson (Uppsala University)

"Bentham, Mill and Kant on the Proof of Utilitarianism," Jose de Sousa e Brito (Universidade Moderna)

"Temporal Units for Assessing Individual Well-Being," Susumu Morimura (Hitotsubashi University)

"Undermining Utilitarianism," Clay Splawn and Jean-Paul Vessel (University of Massachusetts)

Discussant: Justin Weinberg (Georgetown University)

PANEL 5-5 FOUNDATIONALISM VS. PARTICULARISM
(Seminar Room)

Chair: Gustaf Arrhenius (University of Toronto)

"Utilitarianism and Foundationalism," James Harold (University of Minnesota)

"Utilitarianism and the Problem of Preference Malleability: Intuitionism vs. Foundationalism in Ethical Theorizing," Bob Bright (University of Manitoba)

"Understanding Particularism," Karsten Klint Jensen and Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (University of Copenhagen)

"The Evaluation of Malicious Pleasure," Irwin Goldstein (Davidson College)

CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE

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