The 50th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club

We The Philosophy Department of The University of Tokyo will hold the 50th International Meeting of Hongo Metaphysics Club by inviting Professor Dominic Wilkinson. Everyone is welcome.

Professor Dominic Wilkinson is Professor of Medical Ethics and Director of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. He is a physician specialising in newborn intensive care and medical ethics and a consultant neonatologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Programme (PDF)

• Kazuki Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)

  ‘Integrity and Agency: A Reflection on the Methodology of Normative Ethics’

Keynote Lecture

• Prof. Dominic Wilkinson (The University of Oxford)

  ‘The Harm Principle, Personal Identity, and Identity-Relative Paternalism’

  ▼Abstract
  Is it ethical for doctors or courts to prevent patients from making choices that will cause significant harm to themselves in the future? According to an important liberal principle the only justification for infringing the liberty of an individual is to prevent harm to others; harm to the self does not suffice. In this talk, Prof.Wilkinson explores Derek Parfit's arguments that blur the sharp line between harm to self and outlines an Identity Relative Paternalistic Intervention Principle for determining when we should disallow refusal of treatment where the harm will be accrued by a future self. Identity relative paternalism does not always justify intervention to prevent harm to future selves. However, there is a stronger ethical case for doing so than is often recognised.

謝辞：本会議は、科学研究費補助金・基盤（B）「生命操作の倫理」（2022-2025）の助成を受けて開催する。
主催：基盤B「生命操作の倫理――生と死の自己決定をめぐって」（研究代表者：田坂さつき）
共催：学術変革領域A「尊厳学の確立」（領域代表者：加藤泰史）、 基盤B「偶然性概念の哲学史的・概念史的研究」（研究代表者：乘立雄輝）、 東京大学文学部・大学院人文社会系研究科、哲学会