Monday October 13

09:30 – 09:35 Welcome 

09:35 – 10:35 Krister Bykvist (IFFS/Stockholm)

10:35 – 10:45 Break

10:45 – 11:45 Anna Mahtani (LSE)

The tragedy of irreversibility

In cases of preference change – including cases of dementia – we sometimes want things for our future selves that we no longer want when that future time arrives. I consider whether we are ever justified in fulfilling the preferences of a past self at the expense of fulfilling the preferences of a present or future self. I argue that cross-temporal compensation arguments - justifying present harms by pointing to past benefits - only work when past decisions cannot be reversed. This creates perverse incentives toward irreversible self-binding, even when such binding is costly or harmful. I conclude by considering whether cognitive decline in dementia cases provides grounds for an alternative approach. 

11:45 – 11:55 Break

11:55 – 12:55 Ulrik Kihlbom (KI)

12:55 – 14:00 Lunch (at IFFS)

14:00 – 15:00 Lars Sandman (Linköping)

15:00 – 15:10 Break 

15:10 – 16:10 Borgar Jølstad (Institute of Health and Society, Oslo)

16:10 – 16:40 Fika at IFFS

16:40 – 17:40 Collaboration session

18:30 – Dinner

Participants

Krister Bykvist (IFFS/Stockholm University)

Tim Campbell (IFFS)

Julia Mosquera (IFFS)

Orri Stefansson (IFFS/Stockholm University)

Anders Herlitz (IFFS/Lund University)

David Lindquist (Linköping University)

Daniel Ramöller (IFFS)

Niklas Juth (Centre for Research Ethic and Bioethics, Uppsala University)

Ulrik Kihlbom (Karolinska Institute)

Sven Ove Hansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Barbro Fröling (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Erik Gustavsson (Linköping University)

Lars Sandman (Linköping University)

Anna Mahtani (LSE)

Borgar Jølstad (Institute of Health and Society, Oslo University)

William Bülow (CRB)