This message is to inform the MECCSA community about an inter-disciplinary international conference on "Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public Policy" taking place at the University of Leeds, 13-15 July, 2012.
THE REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE CONFERENCE IS 15TH JUNE, 2012.
Keynote Speakers:
Richard Layard
Valerie Tiberius
Dan Haybron
Peter Railton
For more information on conference topics and speakers, please visit the conference website:
https://sites.google.com/site/wellbeingconference/
To register for the conference, please do so by going through the 'registration' page on the conference website.
The conference aims to bring together philosophers and non-philosophers - from psychologists and sociologists to economists and public policy practitioners - to discuss the philosophical foundations of the use of measures of subjective well-being in public policy. There are many philosophical issues involved in such a practice, which have so far been relatively unexplored. These include:
How do measures of subjective well-being relate to philosophical accounts of happiness and well-being?
Are subjective well-being measures valid and prudentially relevant, and are they intra- and inter-personally comparable?
How do measures of subjective well-being relate to other measures of well-being, such as GDP?
How can and should measures of subjective well-being be used to develop and evaluate policy?
Do such measures lead towards a new kind of political utilitarianism?
These issues have been largely unexplored in part because of the lack of dialogue between philosophers and non-philosophers working on the role of subjective well-being in public policy. This conference seeks to bridge that gap, offering a unique opportunity to promote inter-disciplinary dialogue on how well-being research might best be applied to policy-making.
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