Program
Thursday June 1 2023
9:00-9:15 Welcome
9:15-10:30 Dan Haybron
Beyond Well-Being: Beauty and Excellence
10:45-12:00 Pelin Kesebir
Happiness as a Positive and Constructive Orientation Towards Life
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-13:45 Derek van Zoonen
False Pleasure in Republic 9 – A New Argument Against Hedonism
13:45-14:15 Joar Vittersø
To Like Your Life for the Right Reasons: Towards a Normative Science of Eudaimonia
14:15-14:45 Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Aristotle on the form of the good life
15:00-16:15 Hallvard Fossheim
What Is Ethical Virtue? Aristotle on Character by a Thousand Decisions
16:15-17:00 Panel discussion (invited speakers):
Integrating philosophical and psychological research on happiness
17:00 Reception
19:00 Dinner at Nedre Foss Gård
Friday June 2 2023
9:15-10:30 Michael Steger
Meaning in the Context of Eudaimonia
10:45-12:00 Hilde Vinje
Aristotle on the Fine Death
12:00-13:15 Lunch Break
13:15-13:45 Espen Røysamb and Franco Trivigno
Measuring Aristotelian Happiness
13:45-14:15 Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson
Three views on happiness and time: two ancient, one modern
14:15-14:45 Ragnhild Bang Nes
What (Norwegian) People Value
15:00-16:15 Shige Oishi
Happiness, Meaning, and Psychological Richness
16:15-17:00 Summing up and Business meeting
19:00 Excursion and dinner at Villa Paradiso in Munch brygge