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.