Happiness and Human Well-being Reconsidered: Concept, History and Measurement

The 13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies will be held on August 20-22, 2014, at Yokohama National University.

The International Society for Utilitarian Studies (ISUS) provides a forum for scholarly debate and research on utilitarianism and its historical development, and on its present-day relevance in such fields as ethics, politics, law, economics, and public policy. ISUS also publishes the journal Utilitas, a leading international review presenting original research in all aspects of utilitarian theory and encompassing the disciplines of moral philosophy, economics, psychology, political theory, intellectual history, law and jurisprudence. For details of ISUS and Utilitas, please visit the website of the Bentham
Project, University College London.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/news/isus

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project/journals/utilitas

The thirteenth conference of ISUS will focus to the theme of *Happiness and Human Well-being Reconsidered: Concept, History and Measurement.*

Yokohama National University is located on a hill side of Yokohama, a harbour city west of Tokyo. Participants from abroad will be able to fly to Tokyo International Airport, either of Narita or Haneda.

The theme of *Happiness and Human Well-being Reconsidered: Concept History and Measurement* could be approached from various perspectives, for example:

• the conceptual analysis of well-being and happiness
• the concept of human well-being in relation to rights and duties
• moral aspects of unhappiness, suffering and pessimism
• pursuit of happiness via education and human cultivation
• harmony or conflict of well-being between individuals and the community
• human happiness, the rights of nature and environmental sustainability
• pursuit of happiness under conditions of social unrest, political tension and/or cultural diversity
• eudaimonia and human well-being in classical utilitarianism
• the ideal of happiness and the concept of well-being in the history of ideas
• utilitarianism and legal thought
• law, public policy and happiness
• the welfare state, new-liberalism and the possibility of human well-being
• the ideal of humanity from the perspective of utilitarianism, romanticism and perfectionism
• human behaviour, economic action and the conditions for happiness
• the idea of happiness examined in the light of new sciences including neuro-science, behaviour economics and experimental methods
• findings of empirical research on happiness
• condition of public health, medicine and well-being
• editing the classical texts of utilitarianism

Local Organising Committee:

Yasunori Fukagai (Organiser, Yokohama National University)

Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University)

Kazunobu Narita (Keio University)

Michihiro Kaino (Doshisha University)

Satoshi Kodama (Kyoto University)