Axiology Workshop 2025

McGill University, September 19-20, 2025

Keynote speaker: Gustaf Arrhenius (The Institute for Future Studies and Stockholm University)

The Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy (PI: Iwao Hirose) is pleased to announce the third edition of the annual Axiology Workshop. The workshop is intended to be a friendly forum where analytical value theorists in philosophy, economics, and social sciences get together (2023 program and 2024 program). It will take place in Montreal on September 19-20, 2025.

Event schedule:

• Matt Adler (Duke): “Pigou-Dalton and Separability: Is Equity-Regarding Moral Goodness Separable Across Persons?”
• Andrej Jovićević (KU Leuven): “Incomparable, All Dimensions Considered”
• Gil Hersch (Virginia Tech): “What Well-Being to Expect When You’re Expecting”
• Yiran Hua (Toronto): “Equal as Friends”
• Geir B. Asheim (Oslo): “The dilemma between repugnancy and sadism extends beyond Critical-Level Utilitarianism”
• Marina Moreno (LMU Munich): “Moderate Humean Rationality and Transitive Desire-Based Axiology: An Impossibility Theorem”
• Susumu Cato (Tokyo): “Population Ethics with Thresholds”
• Jesse de Jesus de Pinho Pinhal (LMU Munich & MCML): “Is Diversity (Always) Good? Value Restriction, Distributive Constraints, and Axiological Hierarchy”
• Christian Tarsney (Toronto): “The Value of Variety”
• Gustaf Arrhenius (IFFS & Stockholm): TBA

Participation is free, but registration is required as space is limited. To register for the event, click here.

If you are interested to act as a session chair (for instance, to secure travel fund), please indicate your interest when you register.