Papers
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List of papers
Matthew D. Adler, Harsanyi 2.0
Gustaf Arrhenius, On the Possibility of a Satisfactory Population Ethics
Giovanna Barba, LUXURY IN HENRY SIDGWICK,MORAL WASTE OR ECONOMIC INCENTIVE?
Nick Beckstead, The Case for Focusing on Existential Risk
Antonio Bianco and Francesco Patriarca, Some steps toward a new perspective in decision theory
Cyprian Blamires, JEREMY BENTHAM: PREACHER OF UTILITARIANISM OR PROPHET OF MODERNITY?
Julien Blanc, Well-Being and Amour-propre: completing J. Griffin’s account of utility
Martin Bruder, Attila Tanyi, Overriding Consequentialism? A Study on Intuitions and Emotions
Placido Bucolo, AIMS AND LIMITS OF UTILITARIANISM IN THE RECENTCONGRESSES ON SIDGWICK, HELD IN CATANIA
Serena Ciccarelli, Many Single Worlds:The Role of the Environmental Problem within the Global Justice Debate
Will Crouch, The Ethics of Career Choice
Svetoslav Danchev, Valence Utilitarianism
H.H. Dave (not present at the conference), “Value”, as Re Valuated
Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer, Defending objectivism no matter what the origins of our moral intuitions may be: is Sidgwick’s position still tenable?
Nicolas Delon, Animals sneaking into Bentham's Pannomion
Wendy Donner, John Stuart Mill's Green Liberalism
Daniela Donnini Macciò, A Cambridge Economist against Wealth: Ralph Hawtrey’s The Economic Problem
Manuel Escamilla-Castillo, The City of almost Perpendicular Streets:John Stuart Mill and the Emancipation of Women
Nir Eyal, Leveling down health
Francesco Ferraro, Legal Rights as Claims: a Consequentialist Perspective
Davide Fiaschi, Elisa Giuliani, Chiara Macchi, Michelangelo Murano, Oriana Perrone, Is it just a matter of time? On whether Social CorporateResponsibility influences human rights abuses in largeMultinational Corporations (1990-2006)
Sam Fremantle, Are ‘bottom-up’ sacrifices unjust?
Daniel Halliday, Moore, Holism and Well-Being
Souad Harrar Chaherli (not present at the conference), The reception of John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political economy today
Bashshar Haydar, Benefiting from Injustice and Poverty Alleviation
Avram Hiller, A “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” for Climate Change?
Patricia Illingworth, Social Capital: A Moral Sweet Spot for Utilitarians
Patricia Illingworth, Us Before Me
José J. Jiménez Sánchez, The inadequacy of the principle of the majority in the democratization of international relations
Michihiro Kaino, Bentham‟s Legal Theory in the Context of the Common Law
Satoshi Kodama, Up against whom? Kant vs. Utilitarianism
Rob Lawlor, Gerald Lang, Saving Lives and Aggregation
Douglas Long, “Preparatory Principles Inserenda”:Bentham’s earliest writings on Metaphysics, Utility and Punishment
Barry Macleod-Cullinane, Eunomics and the Ethics of Economic Development
Vincent-Emmanuel Mathon, Principle of Utility, Law of Chaos, and Sustainability
Rex W. Mixon, Bentham and the Genealogy of the Principle of Utility
Yoshiki Oida, Theoretical Conflict and Practical Disagreement of Animal Liberation
Arvi Pakaslahti, The Arbitrariness Problem of Prioritarian Weightings
Gianfranco Pellegrino, Benthamic Motivation: Hedonist, not Egoist
Josefa-Dolores Ruiz-Resa, The recent debate against Education for Citizenship in Spain, according to somejudgments of the Spanish Supreme Court
Sule Şahin Ceylan, The Effects of Economic Development on Future People
David Shoemaker, ON CRIMINAL AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY
David Sobel, Backing Away from Self-Ownership
José de Sousa e Brito, Utilitarianism and Aristotelianism (From Mill to Aristotle)
Luca Spataro, Thomas I. Renström, Optimal taxation, critical-level utilitarianism and economic growth
Piers Norris Turner, Authority, Progress, and the“Assumption of Infallibility” in On Liberty
Francisco Vergara, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN“HAPPINESS” AND “DESIRE SATISFACTION”
Justin Weinberg, When Non-Identity Matters
David Weinstein, Classical Utilitarianism and Analytical Political Philosophy
Reginald Williams, Ethics as a Luxury
Satoshi Yamazaki, Pigou’s Ethics and Welfare: a Non-Hedonistic Utilitarianism with the Desire and Need Principles