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Incommensurability and Population-Level Bioethics
May 17-18, 2022
Center for Population-Level Bioethics, Rutgers University
In collaboration with: Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm
Co-sponsored by the Rutgers University Department of Philosophy
May 17th
10.00-10.45: Session 1: Introduction
Anders Herlitz: Incommensurability and population-level bioethics
10.45-11.00: Break
11.00-12.30: Session 2: Evaluating health states
Dan Hausman: The healthier-than relation and incommensurability
Krister Bykvist: Can we compare health states when our standards change
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.00: Session 3: Decision methods
Walter Bossert: Incommensurability and consistency
Susuma Cato: The sufficientarian principle and incommensurability
15.00-15.15: Break
15.15-17.00: Session 6: Disability
Frances Kamm: Parity and disability
David Wasserman: Incommensurability in Healthcare Priority Setting: Can Parity Meet the Challenge of Constraining (Pure) Procedural Justice?
Michael Rabenberg: Comments
May 18th
10.00-12.30 Session 5: Valuing health benefits to future people
Melinda Roberts: Incommensurability, population and intuition
Wlodek Rabinowicz: Personalized neutral-range utilitarianism with incommensurable lives
Gustaf Arrhenius: Incommensurability and population ethics paradoxes
12.30-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Session 6: Uncertainty and incommensurability in public policy
Chrisoula Andreou: Incommensurability, difficult decision making, and public policy
Orri Stefansson: Precaution, lexical utilities and vagueness
Adam Elga: Comments
15.30-15.45: Break
15.45-16.45: Future directions