Workshop - Harm: The Concept and Its Relevance
August 23-24, 2016

Venue
Auditorium Minus, Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University
Program
Tuesday, August 23
- 9:00–10:10 am
Matthew Hanser (UC Santa Barbara)
States, Events, and the Significance of Harm
Chair: Lisa Hecht (Stockholm University)
- 10:25–11:35 am
Katharina Berndt Rasmussen (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm)
Harm and the Wrongness of Discrimination
Chair: Magnus Jedenheim (Uppsala University)
Lunch
- 1:00–2:10 pm
Ben Bradley (Syracuse University)
Harms and Causes
Chair: Kalle Grill (Umeå University)
- 2:20–3:30 pm
Björn Petersson (Lund University)
Collective Suffering
Chair: Susanne Burri (London School of Economics)
Coffee
- 3:45–4:55 pm
Erik Carlson (Uppsala University)
A New Argument Against the Counterfactual Analysis of Harm
Chair: Ben Bramble (Lund University)
Wednesday, August 24
- 9:00–10:10 am
Per Algander (Uppsala University)
The Harmlessness of Existence
Chair: Rebecca Wallbank (Uppsala University)
- 10:25–11:35 am
Molly Gardner (Bowling Green State University)
The Problem of Justified Harm
Chair: Karl Ekendahl (Uppsala University)
Lunch
- 1:00–2:10 pm
Jens Johansson (Uppsala University)
The Subject of Harm in Non-Identity Cases
Chair: Raffaele Rodogno (Aarhus University)
Coffee
- 2:30–3:40 pm
Neil Feit (SUNY Fredonia)
Harming by Failing to Benefit
Chair: Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Uppsala University)
Abstracts
Speakers
- Per Algander, Uppsala University
- Katharina Berndt Rasmussen, Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm
- Ben Bradley, Syracuse University
- Erik Carlson, Uppsala University
- Neil Feit, SUNY Fredonia
- Molly Gardner, Bowling Green State University
- Matthew Hanser, UC Santa Barbara
- Jens Johansson, Uppsala University
- Björn Petersson, Lund University
Organisers
The project "Harm: The Concept and Its Relevance"