Final Call for Registration. 'Measures of Subjective Well-being for Public
Policy: Philosophical Perspectives', Leeds, July 13-15*
This message is to inform the History of Emotions 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:
Peter Railton
Valerie Tiberius
Dan Haybron
Richard Layard
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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