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Program Overview

ISUS X comprises a conference program of 4 plenaries, 39 panels and over 120 presenters offering original research on all aspects of utilitarian moral and political theory, and the development of utilitarianism and its connections with other speculative traditions.

Panels on ethics and moral philosophy explore recent contributions and debates within contemporary utilitarianism; the leading critiques and varieties of utilitarianism; forms and limits of consequentialism; and utilitarianism in relation to theories of rights, justice, welfare and equality. More historically orientated panels consider the central figures in the utilitarian canon - including Bentham, Mill and Sidgwick – along with less familiar theorists and legacies. Panels also are devoted to the relationship – historical and conceptual - between utilitarianism and leading disciplinary formations, such as economics and psychology. Another set of panels engages utilitarianism’s role in the evaluation of key institutional practices of the modern state, such as democracy, human rights, international law and criminal justice.

Participating scholars are drawn from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South and North America, and represent a range of academic disciplines and methodological approaches. Please read more about our distinguished plenary speakers and their ISUS lectures here. [Plenary Overview] The full conference Program Schedule appears below.

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ISUS X – Program Schedule
[Subject to minor revision and correction]

Thursday September 11

Conference Registration - 9-1, 3-5

Session A (Panels #1-4) - 10:00-11:40 a.m.

#1. The Ethics of Distribution - Room 104

Caspar	Hare	MIT	The Ethics of Morphing
Christopher A.	Riddle	Queen's University (Ontario)	Stein and Utilitarianism: One-Dimensional Disability and Distributive Justice
Jon	Altschul	University of California, Santa Barbara	Leveling the Playing Field: Equality of Opportunity and Counterfactual Responsibility

#2. Consequentialism and Personal Relations - Room 203

Scott F.	Woodcock	University of Victoria	When Will Your Consequentialist Friend Abandon You for the Greater Good
Mark	Nelson	Westmont College	What the Utilitarian Cannot Think
Sarah	Conly	Bowdoin College	The Intrusive Eye

#3. Punishment - Room 102

Thomas Søbirk	Petersen	Roskilde University	How Severely Should a State Punish Criminals?
Jesper	Ryberg	Roskilde University	Punishment and Mass Atrocities

#4. Religion and the Utilitarians – Room 204

Edward	McPhail	Dickinson College	Theological links of the Greatest Happiness Principle in the 18th century
Salim	Rashid	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	(joint paper with McPhail)
Catherine	Fuller	University College London	Bentham, Grote and An Analysis of the influence of natural religion ...
Daisuke	Arie	Yokohama National University	Mill’s Religion of Humanity and East Asian moral systems

Conference Lunch - 11:50-1:15
Session B (Panels #5-9) - 1:20-3:00 p.m.

#5. Distributive Justice and Rational Choice - Room 203

Iwao	Hirose	McGill University	Choosing What is Rational
Michael	Moehler	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	The (Stabilized) Nash Bargaining Solution as a Principle of Distributive Justice
Karsten Klint	Jensen	University of Copenhagen	Distributive Ethics and Uncertainty

#6. The Consequentialist Evaluation of Options – Krutch Theater

Christian	Coons	Bowling Green State University	Consequentialism in Transition
David	Killoren	University of Wisconsin, Madison	Consequentialism, Time, Value, and Common-Sense Morality

#7. Legal Institutions and the Principle of Utility – Room 104

Douglas	Long	University of Western Ontario	Utility and Justice in Bentham’s Early Legal Reasoning
Manuel	Escamilla	University of Granada	The justification of penal sanction in Bentham’s penal theory
Ben	Eggleston	University of Kansas	Utilitarian Adjudication

#8. Benthamite Legacies – Room 102

Stephen	Engelmann	University of Illinois, Chicago	Chair
Alejandro Oscar	Goméz	ESEADE-UFM	José del Valle: a Benthamite in Central America
Steven	Macias	California Western School of Law	The Utilitarian Influence on American Legal Science, c. 1800-1850
Jeffrey	Atteberry	University of California, Berkeley	Codification Redux: English Utilitarians in India and the ILC Articles on State Responsibility

#9. Mill’s Liberties – Room 204

Alan E.	Fuchs	College of William & Mary	Mill’s One Very Simple Principle of Liberty
Mauro Cardoso	Simões	UNIFAE--University Center	John Stuart Mill and the Justification of the Paternalism
Ryan	Muldoon	University of Pennsylvania	Toward a Mechanism for Realizing Mill's Experiments in Living

Session C (Panels #10-14) 3:10-4:50 p.m.

#10. Consequentialist Beneficence – Room 104

William	Sin	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	On Demandingness and Internalization
Ian	Folland	University of Reading	Everyday Acts of Beneficence

#11. Value and Practical Reason - Room 203

Douglas W.	Portmore	Arizona State University	The Teleological Conception of Practical Reasons
Mark	Reiff	University of Manchester	Incommensurability and the Circumstances of Justice
Chris	Heathwood	University of Colorado, Boulder	Desire-Based Theories of Welfare, of Pleasure, and of Reasons

#12. Constitutional Designs - Room 102

Peter	Northup	New York University	Consequentialism and Constitutional Obligations
José J. Jiménez	Sánchez	University of Granada	The Crisis of the Majority Principle

#13. New Approaches to Bentham’s Political Thought – Room 204

Malik	Bozzo-Rey	Université Paris X-Nanterre	A new way of understanding the conceptual architecture of Bentham's political thought
Anne	Brunon-Ernst	Université Paris II	The Panopticon as a Model of an Democratic Utilitarian State: Beyond Foucault’s Panopticon Surveillance Paradigm
Jean-Pierre	Cléro	Université de Haute-Normandie, Rouen	On Mill and Bentham's political thought
Emmanuelle	de Champs	Université Paris VIII-Saint-Denis	Bentham and Dumont on the political value of utilitarianism

#14. Exploring Mill’s Logic – Krutch Theater

Frederick	Rosen	University College London	A Double Helix: J.S. Mill, Alexander Bain, and Ethology, the Science of Character
David	Lewisohn		‘Scientific History’ in J.S. Mill’s Logic of the Moral Sciences.
H.V.	Hansen	University of Windsor	Mill’s anticipation of Peirce and Toulmin

Plenary Lecture - 5:05- 6:30
Debra Satz, Stanford University, Equality, Sufficiency and Human Rights

Erik Rakowski, U.C. Berkeley, Chair

Conference Welcome Reception 6:30-8:00

Friday September 12
Conference Registration – 8:30-11, 12-2 – Conference Center Entry Hall

Session D (Panels # 15-19) – 9:00-10:40

#15. Harming and Permissibility – Krutch Theater

Nils	Holtug	University of Copenhagen	Killing and the Time-relative Interest Account
Bashshar	Haydar	American University of Beirut	The Consequences of Rejecting the Moral Relevance of the Doing-Allowing Distinction
S. Matthew	Liao	Oxford University	Intentions and Moral Permissibility

#16. The Varieties of Consequentialism – Room 203

Nir	Eyal	Harvard University	Non-Consequentialist Utilitarianism
Sanford	Levy	Montana State University, Bozeman	How Not to Argue for Rule-consequentialism
Toby	Ord	Christ Church College, Oxford University	How to be a consequentialist about everything

#17. Utilitarianism and Pragmatism - Room 204

Guy	Axtell	University of Nevada, Reno	Utilitarianism and Dewey’s ‘Three Independent Factors in Morals’: Centennial Reflections
Jennifer	Welchman	University of Alberta	Pragmatic Consequentialism and Practical Reasoning: Satisfycing Versus Maximizing
Matthew	Pamental	University of Northern Illionis	Dewey and Mill on the Logic of the Moral Sciences”

#18. Bentham in Politics - Room 102

Philip	Schofield	University College London	How Politicians Mislead Us; or, Jeremy Bentham on Political Fallacies
Paola	Rudan	University of Bologna	Appropriating the Future: Jeremy Bentham on the American Revolution
Marco	Guidi	Università di Pisa	Millian Superiorities in Historical Perspective: The Early Reception of Mill's Quality-Quantity Distinction

#19. Millian Politics: Neglected Commitments – Room 104

Julia	Skorupska	St Hugh's College, Oxford University	What made liberal utilitarians liberal?: Progress and empiricism in the work of J. S. Mill and the new liberals
Nicholas	Xenos	University of Massachusetts, Amherst	Unlovable Patriotism: On Love, Nationality, and Patriotism in J. S. Mill
Helen	McCabe	Somerville College, Oxford University	Mill and Persuasion

Plenary Lecture – 10:55- 12:20
Jules L. Coleman, Yale University, Utilitarianism and the Justification of the Reactive Attitudes in Law

Christopher Kutz, U.C. Berkeley, Chair

Conference Lunch – 12:20 - 2:00

Session E (Panels # 20-24) - 2:10-3:50 p.m.

#20. Consequentialism and Responsibility - Room 203

Elinor	Mason	University of Edinburgh	Consequentialism and Moral Responsibility
Manuel R.	Vargas	University of San Francisco	Normative Ethics, Responsibility, and Desert
Alastair James	Norcross	University of Colorado, Boulder	Utility, Determinism, and Possibility: Context to the Rescue

#21. Shaping Sources – Room 102

Rogerio Antonio	Picoli	Faculdades Metrocamp	The Baconian Matrix of Bentham's Political Thought
Edward Grant	Andrew	University of Toronto	Patron-Client Relationships in the Radical Enlightenment

#22. Utilitarianism and Education – Room 204

Sophie	Audidiere	École Normale Supérieure	What Principle of Utility Might Organize a Plan for Public Education?
Malik	Bozzo-Rey	Université Paris X-Nanterre	Education in Of Laws in General: Can Legislators Write Complete Codes of Law?
Anne	Brunon-Ernst	Panthéon-Assas University	Panoptic Governmentality

#23. Mill’s Moral Theory: Punishment, Maximization, and the Art of Life – Krutch Theater

D.G.	Brown	University of British Columbia	Mill’s Moral Theory: Ongoing Revisionism
Dale	Miller	Old Dominion University	Brown on Mill's Moral Theory: A Critical Response
Jonathan	Riley	Tulane University	Mill's Extraordinary Utilitarian Moral Theory

#24. Sidgwick’s Methods – Room 104

Gianfranco	Pellegrino	Luiss "Guido Carli" University of Rome	Defending Sidgwick's Dualism of Practical Reason Against Parfit's Taming
David	Phillips	University of Houston	A Puzzle In Sidgwick’s Moral Epistemology

Plenary Lecture – 4:10-5:30 p.m.
       Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University and London University,
              Utilitarianism and the Triumph of Modern Liberty

       Kinch Hoekstra, U.C. Berkeley, Chair

Conference Dinner Drinks - 6:15 p.m.
Conference Dinner - 7:00 p.m.

Saturday September 13
Session F (Panels #25-29) - 8:45 -10:25

#25. Moral Psychology: Sympathy, Motivation and the Good Life – Room 204

Ramona Cristina	Ilea	Pacific University	Sympathy, Moral Psychology, and Utilitarianism
Donald W.	Bruckner	Penn State University, New Kensington	Philosophical Lessons from Positive Psychology
Avram	Hiller	Portland State University	Psychological Partialism and Commonsense Morality

#26. Secrecy in Consequentialism: Is Esoteric Morality Defensible? – Room 203

Katarzyna	de Lazari-Radek	Lodz University	Secrecy in Consequentialism: A Defense of Esoteric Morality
Peter	Singer	Princeton University	(joint paper with Lazari-Radek)
Brad	Hooker	University of Reading	In Response: Ideal Code, Real World

#27. Revisiting the Canon – Room 102

Mark	Kaswan	University of California, Los Angeles	Happiness, Well-Being, and William Thompson's Social(ist) Utilitarianism
Yasunori	Fukagai	Yokohama National University	Liberal Scheme of Welfare and the Idea of Social Justice: From Mill to Hobhouse
Shannon	Stimson	University of California, Berkeley	Two Critiques of Classical Political Economy

#28. Bentham’s First Principles – Room 104

James E.	Crimmins	Huron University College	The Context and Purpose of Bentham's 'Article on Utilitarianism’
Allison	Dube	University of Calgary	The Principles of Sympathy and Antipathy and Asceticism in Patterns of Abuse
Donald	Jackson	Algoma University College	The Self-Preference Principle: Bentham’s Discovery and His Transition to Epistemological and Democratic Radicalism

#29. Mill: Utility, Society and the ‘Art of Life’ – Krutch Theater

Wendy	Donner	Carleton University	Morality, Virtue and Aesthetics in Mill’s Art of Life
Piers Norris	Turner	University of North Carolina	Mill’s Social Epistemic Principle
S. Evan	Kreider	University of Wisconsin, Fox Valley	Emotion and Virtue in Mill’s Utilitarianism

Plenary Lecture – 10:40 – 11:55
       Cheryl Welch, Simmons College and Harvard University
              Is Tocqueville the 'anti-Bentham'?: Utilitarianism and the French Democratic Tradition

       Shannon Stimson, U.C. Berkeley, Chair

Conference Lunch - 12:00 – 1:45
ISUS Business meeting - 12:00 – 1:45

Session G (Panels #30-34) 1:55 – 3:35 p.m.

#30. The Nature of Well-Being – Room 102

Peter	Railton	University of Michigan	The Problem of Well-Being: Respect, Equality, and the Self
Jason	Raibley	California State University, Long Beach	Well-Being Is Not Happiness
Dimitrios Jim	Molos	Queen's University	Defending L.W. Sumner: Responses to Four Objectivist Claims about Human Welfare

#31. Which Consequences? – Room 204

Julia	Driver	Washington University, St. Louis	Defending Objective Consequentialism
Mark	Lukas	Longwood University	Reconciling Consequentialism With Ordinary Moral Knowledge
Bart	Gruzalski	Sunyata Retreat Centre and Northeastern University	Foreseeable Consequences Determine Utilitarian Obligation

#32. Utility and Human Rights – Krutch Theater

Don A.	Habibi	University of North Carolina, Wilmington	Two Utilitarian Approaches to Human Rights
Souad	Chaherli Harrar	Institut Supérieur des sciences humaines	Mill's Conception of Human Rights
Stephen	Nathanson	Northeastern University	Can Utilitarians Support Noncombatant Immunity?

#33. Rereading Historical Utilitarians – Room 203

David	Weinstein	Wake Forest	Interpreting Mill
Samuel	Clark	Lancaster University	Mill's Autobiography and Perfectionist Ethics
Robert	Lamb	University of Exeter	J.S. Mill and William Godwin: Tracing an Intellectual Relationship
Corinna	Wagner	University of Exeter	A Mechanical Doctrine: The Rhetoric of Anti-Utilitarianism in the 19th Century

#34. Modern Interpreters – Room 104

Guy	Fletcher	University of Reading	Mill, Moore, and Intrinsic Value
Bénicourt	Emmanuelle	Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut Cambresis	Amartya Sen's Misleading Conception of Utilitarianism
Emilie	Dardenne	Université de Rennes II	The Reception of Peter Singer’s Theories in France

Session F (Panels #35-39) - 3:50– 5:30 p.m.

#35. Consequentialism and its Rivals – Room 203

Martin	Peterson	University of Cambridge	The Asymmetry Argument
Andrew	Sepielli	Rutgers University	Moral Uncertainty and the Principle of Equity among Moral Theories
Benjamin	Sachs	National Institutes of Health	Can Consequentialization Advance the Cause of Consequentialism?

#36. Welfare Consequentialism and Global Distribution – Room 102

Debra	Satz	Stanford University	Chair
Dale	Jamieson	New York University	Consequentialism and Climate Justice
Dale	Dorsey	University of Alberta	Welfare versus Capabilities: On the Construction of a Basic Minimum
Helena	de Bres	Wellesley College	Welfare Consequentialism and Fairness in International Trade
Avia	Pasternak	Stanford University	Comment

#37. Bentham and Mill: Defining Questions – Room 104

José	de Sousa e Brito	Universidade Nova de Lisboa	From Utilitarianism To Kantism: Bentham’s Proof of Utilitarianism, Mill and Kant
Rex	Mixon	St. Francis College	Bentham's Three “Rules of Moral Duty”
Jeremy	Garrett	Rice University	Reevaluating Mill’s Argument for the Intrinsic Superiority of Higher Pleasures

#38. Utilitarian Political Economy, Natural Rights and the Poor – Room 204

Arianne	Chernock	Boston University	Chair and Comment
Paul	Fideler	Lesley University	Agrarian Political Economy, Jeremy Bentham, and ‘Welfare Science’
Susannah R.	Ottaway	Carleton College	Political Economy and Welfare Rights in Late-Eighteenth-Century England
Michael	Quinn	University College London	Subsistence, Security, Abundance, and Population in the Political Economy of Jeremy Bentham