The 13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies 
(ISUS III) will be held on 20-22 August 2014, at Yokohama National 
University, Japan. The general theme is *Happiness and Human Well-being 
Reconsidered: Concept, History and Measurement.* All of the scholars and 
young reseachers who may have the interest to this theme and to the idea 
of utilitarianism are wellcomed to submit to the conference.

The website for the conference is
http://isus2014.ynu.ac.jp/

The form for the panel/session and paper proposal is ready.
http://isus2014.ynu.ac.jp/proposal.html

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Deadline for session and paper proposals: February 15, 2014
Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts: The end of March 2014

Please find the detailed description of the conference below.

Yasunori Fukagai
The organiser of the 13th conference of ISUS, 2014
Yokohama National University

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The 13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies

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

August 20-22, 2014
Yokohama National University 

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.* 
Scholars who find the interest in this topic, as well as other topics 
relative to utilitarianism, are welcome to submit proposals and join the 
Conference. Session and paper proposals will be accepted until February 
15, 2014, and applicants will receive notification of acceptance or 
rejection by the end of March 2014. The main themes of the Conference 
are described below. 

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) 


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