First International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life
Sapporo, August 20-21, 2018
August 20th, Monday
W409
10:00-10:55
10:55-11:00
11:00-11:45

W309
Registration （Registration Desk @ 4th floor）
Welcome Speech: Nobuo Kurata (W409)

Keynote Speech 1 (W409)

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11:50-12:35

W308

Nobuo Kurata

Thaddeus Metz
Is a Moderate Supernaturalism about Meaning in Life Possible?
Keynote Speech 2 (W409)

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Nobuo Kurata

Masahiro Morioka
A Solipsistic and Affirmative Approach to Meaning in LifeLunch

12:35-14:00
14:00-15:30
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14:00

14:30

WittgensteinEmotion and Meaning of Life Bioethics and Purpose of Life

Minao Kukita

Nobuo Kurata

Takeshi Sato

“Christianizing” theInvestigations: the Meaning of Life
in Wittgenstein’s PhilosophicalInvestigations

The Hope and Horror ofPhysicalism

Significance of the Narrative in
Spiritual Care

Jairus Espiritu

Christopher Brown

Shunichi Miyajima

The Meaning of Life in“Tractatus”. No Answer for No
Question and Some Fictional
Illuminations
Isabel Gamero Cabrera

Application of Logotherapy andIs There an Emotional State That is
the Concept of "Meaning of life" inDistinctive of (Living) a
the Context of Women in Prenatal
Meaningful Life?
and Postnatal Distress
Abel Franco

Sylwia Maria Olejarz

Suffering and Meaning in LifeThe Value of Life Derives from thePurpose of Life: TeleologicalPotentiality for Rational Agency as
the Arounds for Full Moral Status

Efrain Gayosso-Cabello

Sara Chan Yun Yu

15:00

15:30-15:45
15:45-17:45
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Coffee Break

Anti-Natalism 1(Benatar meets critics)

Meaning of Life & Wolfian view

Fumitake Yoshizawa

Tatsuya Murayama

Anti-Natalism and Meaning in Life

Importance and Meaning in Life

Asheel Singh

Joshua Glasgow

Agnosticism about the Value ofLife and Practical Anti-natalism

Immorality and Meaning in Life

Kazuo Kojima

David Matheson

Not Better to Have Been: Deathand the Value of Life

Meaning in Life – Fitting Objectiveor Rational Attractiveness?

Vijay Mascarenhas

Susanne Hiekel

15:45

16:15

16:45

17:15
An Argument for Better Never to Expressive Meaning in Life and Its
Have Come into Existence
Relation to Value
Kong Ngai Pei

18:00-19:30

John Anthony Uglietta

Welcome Party(W201&202)

August 21st, Tuesday
10:00-12:00
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W409
Anti-Natalism 2(Benatar meets critics)

W309

W308

Existentialism

Ikuro Suzuki

Tatsuya Murayama

Fundamental Problems of theNatalism vs Anti-Natalism
Controversy

Negativism as the PhilosophicalApproach to the Meaning of Life

Yuichi Nakagawa

Johannes Abel

Saying Yes, or Anti Anti-Natalism

Sartre on Death and Meaning inLife

Andrew Oberg

Kiki Berk

10:00

10:30

11:00
Posthumanism and Anti-Natalism

Sean Clancy

Lunch

11:30-13:30
13:30-14:15

Keynote Speech 3 (W409)

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Masahiro Morioka

David Benatar
An Unexpected Route to Anti-Natalism
14:30-16:00
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Moral Life

Chinese Philosophy

Art & Education

Takeshi Sato

Tomohiko Kondo

Masahiro Morioka

Meaning and the Moral LifeThe Meaning of Life in theZhuangzi

Teaching “the Meaning of Life”:
Pedagogical Strategies andReflections

Lucas Scripter

Mark L. Farrugia

Evgenia Cherkasova

Utilitarian Theory of Meaning inLife as a Solution to the ‘Why Be
Moral?’ Problem

The “Subjective Attraction” andthe “Objective Attractiveness” ofthe Rites in the Xunzi

Why Rachel Needed Implanted
Memories?−−The Role of Memory
in a Meaningful Human Life in
Ridley Scott’s Blade RunnerShunsuke Sugimoto

Angel On Ki Ting

14:30

15:00

15:30

Naomi Tsuruta
Meaning in/of Life and the Unity of theArtwork: The Dialogue between
Western and Japanese Conceptions ofArtistic Unity in Iris Murdoch’s"Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals"

A Social Approach to the Meaningof Life
Emil Mazzoleni

Fiona Tomkinson

Coffee Break

16:00-16:15
16:15-17:15
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Meaning of Meaning of life

Japanese Philosophy

Universe/Wellbeing

Nobuo Kurata

Tomohiko Kondo

Shunsuke Sugimoto

Phoniness and the Meaning of Life

Life-Problems: Individualism andQuestions on the Meaning of Lifein Meiji Japan

What, if Anything, Would Give
Human Life Meaning in thisImmense Universe?

Iddo Landau

Richard StoneBrooke Trisel

Interpreting life's meaning: Anexplanation of why meaning is
objective

Meaning and Self-Identification:
On Umemoto Katsumi’s
Subjectivity Problem

The Deflationary Challenge toMeaning in Life

Michael Prinzing

Sho Yamaguchi

Matthew Hammerton

16:15

16:45

17:30-17:45

Closing Remarks: Tatsuya Murayama (W409)