Upcoming philosophy workshop
Saving lives from the badness of death - Espen Gamlund and Carl Tollef Solberg from Global Health Priorities are arranging a workshop at the University of Oxford, June 1st.
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The aim of the workshop is to discuss chapters in a forthcoming volume called Saving Lives from the Badness of Death (OUP). The workshop will include leading moral philosophers such as John Broome and Jeff McMahan, as well as research group leader Ole Frithjof Norheim. This is a follow-up to last year's workshop held at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, University of Oslo.
Several interdisciplinary topics between death and health policy will be discussed. One question concerns why death is bad. A death can be bad for friends, family and the society, but how can death have a disvalue for those who die? This is relevant to the trade-off between morbidity and mortality. A second question concerns when we begin to exist. Is it at conception, with the capacity to sentience or at birth? This issue is relevant to whether or not we should count stillbirths. A third question concerns when it is worst to die? This is relevant to which age groups we should prioritize.
This is a collaboration between Global Health Priorities and Department of Philosophy at the University of Bergen and the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, at the University of Oslo. The program can be accessed below.
