{"id":967,"date":"2017-10-02T11:43:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T11:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/?p=967"},"modified":"2017-10-02T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T12:17:45","slug":"symposium-on-happiness-in-political-and-moral-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/hpt\/2017\/10\/02\/symposium-on-happiness-in-political-and-moral-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium on Happiness in Political and Moral Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\">\n<p>We are pleased to announce the details of &#8216;Happiness in Political and Moral Thought&#8217;, a symposium organised by the Centre&#8217;s Professor\u00a0Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary University of London) with the assistance of Professor Mark Philp (Warwick) and Professor Philip Schofield (UCL, Bentham Project).<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Speakers and topics:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barbara Arneil (University of British Columbia): \u201cThe Failure of Planned Happiness: The Rise and Fall of British Home Colonies\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Roger Crisp (St Anne\u2019s College, Oxford): \u201cShaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Mill on Pleasure and Virtue\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Emmanuelle de Champs (Universit\u00e9 de Cergy-Pontoise \/ Max Weber Kolleg, Erfurt): \u201cFrom \u2018public happiness\u2019 to \u2018the greatest happiness of the greatest number\u2019: The promise of progress in the writings of Condorcet and Bentham\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Manuel Escarmilla-Castillo (Universidad de Granada): \u201cBentham and President Roosevelt\u2019s Four Freedoms\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Paul Kelly (LSE): \u201cAsceticism, False-Consciousness and Resentment: Bentham and the Genealogy of Morality\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ellen Kennedy (The University of Pennsylvania): \u201cLiberty: Variations on a Theme in the Work of Wilhelm von Humboldt, J. S. Mill &amp; Walter Eucken\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Antis Loizides (University of Cyprus): \u201cJames Mill on Happiness\u201d<\/li>\n<li>James Moore (Concordia University): \u201cScepticism and Epicureanism from David Hume to J. S . Mill\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michael Quinn (UCL): \u201c\u2018The first article to look to is power\u2019: Jeremy Bentham, Happiness, and the Capability Approach\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Riley (Tulane University): \u201cCompeting Conceptions of Plural Utility: Bentham versus Mill\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Alan Ryan (New College, Oxford): \u201cInductive and Progressive?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Philip Schofield (UCL): \u201cJeremy Bentham and the Spanish Constitution of 1812\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Frederick Rosen (UCL): \u201cParallel Lives in Logic: John Stuart Mill, George Bentham, and Darwin\u2019s <em>Origin of Species<\/em>\u201d [t.b.c.]<\/li>\n<li>David Weinstein (Wake Forest University\/ Carl von Ossietzky Universit\u00e4t Oldenburg): \u201cMaking Better Sense of Ideal Utilitarianism\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note: Places for this event are strictly limited, and will be allocated to those who apply first. If you wish to know if there are places left, please email Georgios Varouxakis (<a href=\"mailto:g.varouxakis@qmul.ac.uk\">g.varouxakis@qmul.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to announce the details of &#8216;Happiness in Political and Moral Thought&#8217;, a symposium organised by the Centre&#8217;s Professor\u00a0Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary University of London) with the assistance of Professor Mark Philp (Warwick) and Professor Philip Schofield (UCL, Bentham Project). 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