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).
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.
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.
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”.
The Swedish Research Council today announced it will fund a new research project on: Close Personal Relationships, Children and the Family: Ethical and Political Analysis against a Changing Background. Main applicant and heading the project is my colleague at Umeå University Daniela Cutas. Co-applicants are Anca Gheaus, now of Sheffield University, and myself. In total the grant is approx. €660 000.
Complete change of website design. I hope someone will miss my previous more diary-style entries, but for now I’m going minimalistic. News from May 2013.
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.