Thursday 13 February until Friday 14 February, 2020at 09:45 - 18:00
Samverkanshuset, Triple Helix
Welcome to a workshop in philosophy dealing with issues of sustainability and future people.
Selected speakers
Larry Temkin Rutgers University - New Brunswick
Marion Hourdequin Colorado College
Erik Carlson Uppsala Universitet
Eric Brandstedt Lund University
Lars Samuelsson Umeå University
Melinda A. Roberts The College of New Jersey
Allen Thompson Oregon State University
Krister Bykvist Stockholm University
Molly Gardner Bowling Green State University
Kalle Grill Umeå University
Organisers
Kalle Grill, Umeå University Lars Samuelsson, Umeå University
The workshop is part of the research project: “Future People and the Concept of Sustainability”, financed by FORMAS.
Participation and registration
The workshop is open to all interested free of charge, but you need to register if you want to attend. You do so by sending an e-mail to: lars.samuelsson@umu.se no later than 31 January.
All participants are offered free lunch and coffee. Please report when registering if you want lunch and/or coffee (one or both days) (and if you have any dietary restrictions).
Preliminary program
Thursday
09.45 Coffee available
10.15 Welcome
10.25-11.35 Larry Temkin: Neutrality, Sustainability, and the Relations between Different Possible Locations of the Good
11.40-12.50 Marion Hourdequin: Sustainability and Intergenerational Ethics from a Relational Point of View
Lunch
14.00-15.10 Erik Carlson: Population Axiology and the Structure of Well-being
Coffee
15.35-16.45 Eric Brandstedt: The Assurance Problem for Transfers Between Generations in Ageing Societies
16.50-18.00 Lars Samuelsson: On Our Duties regarding Future People – Two Kinds of Welfare Consideration and the Goal of Sustainability
Friday
09.15 Coffee available
9.45-10.55 Melinda Roberts: Does Climate Change Put Ethics on a Collision Course with Itself?
11.00-12.10 Allen Thompson: Deep Adaptation and the Unimaginable Future
Lunch
13.20-14.30 Krister Bykvist: The Value of Sustainability and the Value of Existence – Conflict or Harmony?
14.35-15.45 Molly Gardner: Can We Compensate for Environmental Degradation?
Coffee
16.15-17.25 Kalle Grill: The Average View and the Value of Sustainability
