Today my TEDx talk on the importance of asking what is important and how philosophy might help was published online. The talk was given in Umeå on May 11.
Today my TEDx talk on the importance of asking what is important and how philosophy might help was published online. The talk was given in Umeå on May 11.
It has been almost two years since Dominik Düber invited me to co-organize the workshop starting today at the Center for Advanced Study in Bioethics in Münster, Germany. We decided on the essentials during a long walk in the Teutoburg Forest after a workshop in Bielefeld, but then spent quite a lot of emails and talks on getting the full program together. Very glad to have a line-up that includes some of the very best political philosophers I know as well as some of the very best philosophers in public health ethics. Discussion should be intense and rewarding. Here is a flyer with program.
My first Poster presentation! Today at a conference on Theoretical Population Ethics at the Philosophy Department of Oxford University. I try to jolt the intuition that it has intrinsic value that humanity survives, independently of the future lives that may be lived given survival. I then discuss how this value may be accommodated in population axiology.
Yesterday and today, we are running a conference on the theme “Beyond the Nuclear Family: The Philosophy of Close Personal Relationships” here at Umeå University, we being me and my colleagues Daniela Cutas and Anca Gheaus, collaborators in the research project Close Personal Relationships, Children and the Family. Very happy to see so many interesting speakers and with such diversity of expertise and level of seniority coming together for fruitful discussion. My presentation is titled “Should Parents Love Each Other?” and explores some possible family constellation from the perspective of ensuring important family relationship values.
Today at Queen’s University Belfast, I take part in a workshop on “Food Policy between Public Health and Ethical Pluralism”, giving a talk on “Reasonable and unreasonable food preferences”.
Today I give a talk in the Theme Equity in Health organized by various medical departments here at Umeå University. The title was “Frameworks for public health decision-making: What values? What priorities?”, a slight modification of my Münster talk earlier this fall.
My fellow participants in the research project “Close personal relationships, children and the family”, Daniela Cutas and Anca Gheaus, organize a workshop here at Umeå university today and tomorrow. Today I talk under the heading “Decoupling Parenthood and Romantic Relationships”, arguing for the conceptual, and perhaps even in practice, decoupling or disentangling of these two types of relationships.
Today I give a talk to the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics in Münster, on how we should make decisions regarding public health issues.
Today, at the Mancept Workshops in Political Theory, I present some thoughts on the room for reproductive liberty in the face of the environmental challenges we face today. The talk is part of a workshop organized by Christian Münthe, on Reproductive Public Health Ethics.
Today, at the Congress of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, in Yokohama, Japan, I present the basics of a population axiology that provides substantial neutrality for additions (that is it means that adding a new life to an existing population does not make that population better).