HIROSHIMA WORKSHOP ON APPLIED ETHICS 2025　　　　　　―　THEORIES OF VALUE AND WELL-BEING　―  November 11，3:00 p.m.ー5:00 p.m.

Date : 3:00 p.m. ー 5:00 p.m. November 11, 2025

Venue : Graduate School of Integrated Arts and Science, Research Facilities A A402

Speaker： ANDREA S. ASKER　( Stockholm University / Institute for Future Studies / Hitotsubashi University )

SHU ISHIDA ( Hiroshima University )

Eligibility：Faculty, Staff and Students of Hiroshima University Faculty, Staff and Students of Hiroshima University

Registration: Advance registration is not available. Participants will only be accepted at the venue on the day of the event (Capacity: 20, first come, first served).

Summary:

The rapid advancement of science and technology offers unprecedented opportunities to cure diseases, alleviate suffering, and extend healthy human life. To ensure that these benefits are realized and shared in fair and inclusive ways, we should engage in social deliberation about what makes life valuable, what it means to die well, and how well-being can be conceived and measured. Such questions—among others—lie at the heart of Value Theory, one of the central fields of contemporary ethics.

This seminar invites participants to engage with current debates within Value Theory and explore the values that shape ongoing ethical controversies in emerging biotechnologies and beyond.

Host: Uehiro Division for Applied Ethics, Hiroshima University

Co-Host: Center for Collaborative Sciences, Hiroshima University