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[Hybrid]Dialogue between Philosophy and Economics: Taking Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being Seriously in Its Formulation and Measurement for Social Evaluation

You are cordially invited to join an international conference, the "Dialogue between Philosophy and Economics: Taking Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being Seriously in Its Formulation and Measurement for Social Evaluation". 

Date: February 8th and 9th 2024
Time: 9:30am - 18:50 (Japan time) 
Place: Tokyo Venue and Online

Program: Please see here.

Registration : The deadline is February 5 closed
Please see here.

We look forward to your participation, and we hope to see you at Tokyo or the zoom!

Abstracts (all presenters): Please see here

List of Presenters:

8th February

  • Norihito Sakamoto (Tokyo University of Science)

             "A Class of Practical and Acceptable Social Welfare Orderings That Satisfy the Principles of Aggregation and Non-Aggregation: Reexamination of the Tyrannies of Aggregation and Non-Aggregation"  Paper

  • John A. Weymark (Vanderbilt University)

             "Impartiality and Relative Utilitarianism" Paper

  • Walter Bossert (Université de Montréal)

            "Population Ethics with a Threshold" Paper

  • Kan Takeuchi (Hitotsubashi University)

            "On the Intuition-Free Modeling of Human Decision-Makings" Paper

  • Ryo Kambayashi (Musashi University)

            "An Empirical Challenge of Capability Approach and Philosophy" Paper

  • Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)

            "The Right Numeraire or the Just Weights? How to make BCA Rational and Fair" Paper

  • Alex Voorhoeve (London School of Economics and Political Science)

            "Balancing Death against Lesser Burdens: Philosophy, Psychology and Policy" Paper

9th February

  • Yongsheng Xu (Georgia State University)

            "Top-Bottom Dominance and Possibility of Making Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-being in the Functioning and Capability Approach" Paper

  • Satoshi Nakada (Tokyo University of Science)

            "Multi-Threshold Generalized Sufficientarianism and Level-Oligarchy" Paper

  • Akira Inoue (University of Tokyo)

            "Relational Egalitarians Should Sever the Close Relationship with Neo-Republicanism: On Intergenerational Justice" Paper

  • Biung-Ghi Ju (Seoul National University)

            "Priority, Solidarity, and Egalitarianism in the Capability Approach" Paper

  • Susumu Cato (University of Tokyo)

          "Fair social quasi-orderings" Paper

  • Orri Stefansson (Stockholm University)

            "Calibration Dilemmas in Distributive Ethics: Some Potential Responses" Paper