A One Day Workshop on
HEDONISM

Campbell Brown
John Skorupski
Thomas Søbirk Petersen

11 November 2009
10.30am-5pm



Rm 2.2 (second floor), Charteris Land, Holyrood Rd, Edinburgh


Charteris Land is part of the Moray House School of Education, for directions see map:
http://www.education.ed.ac.uk/aboutus/morayhouse/map.html

The workshop is free and open to all, though participants limited to 25. Please email Elinor.Mason@ed.ac.uk to register. Please tell me in your email if you would like to come to dinner with the speakers.

Schedule:

10.30-12.00
Dr Campbell Brown, University of Edinburgh, 'Mill's Hierarchy of Pleasures and Incommensurability'

12.00 -1.30pm lunch

1.30pm-3pm
Professor Thomas Søbirk Petersen,  University of Roskilde, ‘What is it for a life to go well (or badly)?
-Some Critical Comments on Wayne Sumner’s Theory of Welfare’.

3.30pm-5pm
Professor John Skorupski, University of St Andrews, ‘So what is hedonism, anyway?’

Thanks to generous support from Edinburgh University Department of Philosophy and the Scots Philosophy Association.