Category Archives: Event

Workshop documentation

The workshop Respecting Context-Dependent Preferences, which I organized at Umeå University March 21-22,  was filmed by Sam Wren-Lewis. Today this documentation is made freely available here.

Workshop: Respecting Context-dependent Preferences

Today and tomorrow, I run a workshop on this theme at Umeå University. Speakers include:

Richard Arneson (UC San Diego)
Luc Bovens (London School of Economics)
Sarah Conly (Bowdoin/Chicago)
Jason Hanna (Northern Illinois)
Sven Ove Hansson (KTH, Stockholm)
Kalle Grill (Umeå)
Fabienne Peter (Warwick)
Danny Scoccia (New Mexico State)
Robert Sugden (East Anglia)
Torbjörn Tännsjö (Stockholm)

All pre-registered participants welcome!

Program and further info here.

Invited talk to research network

Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Forschung in Bielefeld, Germany, is currently hosting a research network on Normative Aspects of Public Health, organized by Thomas Schramme and Stefan Huster. Yesterday and today the network hosted a workshop on “Individual Liberty and Problems of Justice in Public Health Ethics”. I was invited to present, together with four other international guests. I titled my talk “The Place of Liberty in Public Health”.

“Shaping the context and content of food choices”

Annual EurSafe conference on The Ethics of Consumption starts today. I will be presenting on: “Shaping the context and content of food choices”. Conference papers are already published in a book from Wageningen Academic Publishers, edited by conference organizers Helena Röcklingsberg and Per Sandin.

Panel at Mancept Workshops in Political Theory

Today and tomorrow I am convening a panel on Paternalism and Libertarian Paternalism. Here is the program:

  • Emma Bullock, University of Southampton – Paternalism Redefined
  • Michael Cholbi, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona – Paternalism’s Domain and Our Rational Powers
  • Tom Walker, Queen’s University Belfast – Paternalism and Populations
  • Nicolas Cornell, University of Pennsylvania – Three Theories of Paternalism
  • Peter Schaber, University of Zürich – Who Has the Right to Interfere?
  • Kalle Grill, Umeå University – Rational and Nonrational influence
  • Johannes Drerup, University of Münster – The Hidden Insults of Anti-paternalism: A Liberal Perfectionist Case for Libertarian Paternalism
  • Andres Moles, Central European University – Nudge, Anti-perfectionism, and Manipulation
  • Danny Scoccia, New Mexico State University – Paternalism and Manipulation

Presenting at Swedish Congress of Philosophy

Swedish Congress of Philosophy starting today. I will present on: “Six conceptions of freedom of choice: A defence of All- options Probabilism”.