First International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life
Sapporo, August 20 (Mon.) - 21 (Tue.), 2018
Hokkaido University
Humanities and Social Sciences Classroom Building

ProgramKeynote 1
Thaddeus Metz (University of Johannesburg)" Is a Moderate Supernaturalism about Meaning in Life Possible? "Keynote 2
Masahiro Morioka (Waseda University)" A Solipsistic and Affirmative Approach to Meaning in Life "Keynote 3
David Benatar (University of Cape Town)" An Unexpected Route to Anti-Natalism "Parallel Sessions （tentative）
Johannes Abel
Robert Elliott Allinson
Kiki BerkChristopher Devlin Brown
Meng-Shi Chen
Evgenia Cherkasova
Sean Martin Clancy
Jairus Diesta Espiritu
Mark L. Farrugia
Abel B. Franco
Isabel Gloria Gamero Cabrera
Efrain Gayosso-Cabello
Joshua M Glasgow
Matthew Hammerton
Susanne Hiekel
Kazuo Kojima
Iddo Landau
Vijay Joseph Mascarenhas
David Jonathan Matheson
Emil Mazzoleni
Shunichi Miyajima
Yuichi Nakagawa
Andrew Ryan Oberg
Sylwia Maria Olejarz
Kong Ngai Pei
Michael Prinzing
Lucas Allen Scripter
Asheel Singh
Richard Stone
Shunsuke Sugimoto
Angel On Ki Ting
Fiona Gail Tomkinson
Brooke Alan Trisel
Naomi Tsuruta
John Anthony Uglietta
Sho Yamaguchi
Sara Chan Yun Yu

Negativism as the Philosophical Approach to the Meaning of Life
Aristotle and Confucius on the Meaning of Life
Sartre on Death and Meaning in LifeThe Hope and Horror of Physicalism
Spectacle of Suffering and Meaning of Life: Lessons from Nietzsche
Teaching “the Meaning of Life”: Pedagogical Strategies and Reflections
Posthumanism and Anti-Natalism“Christianizing” the Investigations: the Meaning of Life in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
The Meaning of Life in the Zhuangzi
Is There an Emotional State That is Distinctive of (Living) a Meaningful Life?
The Meaning of Life in “Tractatus”. No Answer for No Question and Some Fictional Illuminations
Suffering and Meaning in Life
Importance and Meaning in LifeThe Deflationary Challenge to Meaning in Life
Meaning in Life – Fitting Objective or Rational Attractiveness?
Agnosticism about the Value of Life and Practical Anti-natalism
Phoniness and the Meaning of Life
Not Better to Have Been: Death and the Value of Life
Immorality and Meaning in LifeA Social Approach to the Meaning of Life
Significance of the Narrative in Spiritual Care
Fundamental Problems of the Natalism vs Anti-Natalism Controversy
Saying Yes, or Anti Anti-Natalism
Application of Logotherapy and the Concept of „Meaning of life” in the Context of Women in Prenatal
and Postnatal Distress
An Argument for Better Never To Have Come into ExistenceInterpreting Life's Meaning: An Explanation of why Meaning is Objective
Meaning and the Moral Life
Anti-Natalism and Meaning in Life
Life-Problems: Individualism and Questions on the Meaning of Life in Meiji Japan
Utilitarian Theory of Meaning in Life as a Solution to the ‘Why Be Moral?’ Problem
The “Subjective Attraction” and the “Objective Attractiveness” of the Rites in the Xunzi
Meaning in/of Life and the Unity of the Artwork: The Dialogue between Western and JapaneseConceptions of Artistic Unity in Iris Murdoch’s "Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals"
What, if Anything, Would Give Human Life Meaning in this Immense Universe?
Why Rachel Needed Implanted Memories?−−The Role of Memory in a Meaningful Human Life in
Ridley Scott’s Blade RunnerExpressive Meaning in Life and Its Relation to Value
Meaning and Self-Identification: On Umemoto Katsumi’s Subjectivity Problem
The Value of Life Derives from the Purpose of Life: Teleological Potentiality for Rational Agency as theArounds for Full Moral Status

NoteWe must ask that not only speakers but also all participants fill in the following registration form:（https://goo.gl/forms/tLqGrbuhaTmWHXs23）by July 31, 2018 (Tuesday).
We would also like to take this opportunity to remind all participants to book hotel reservations and airplane tickets well in advance of theconference. August is the peak of Hokkaido’s tourist season, meaning that last minute reservations could be quite difficult to make.
For detailed information, please check the conference website (http://caep-hu.sakura.ne.jp/en/event/).