PANEL 4 / JUSTICE ACROSS GENERATIONS
CONVENORS: MANUEL SÁ VALENTE, DEVON CASS (Nova), AXEL GOSSERIES (UCLouvain)
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Debates on intergenerational justice have been gaining traction in political philosophy recently. Questions about disparities between the young and the old, worries about what will be left to the unborn, concerns about what to do about historical injustice - none of these have been as pressing as they are today. There has been significant progress in debates over what non-overlapping cohorts owe to each other, especially what the living owe the future. Less explored but rising in popularity are questions of justice between age groups and questions about what duties living persons have towards the past. Despite some advancements, there is still much to do. Much more must still be said about the prospects for new accounts of intergenerational justice (e.g., neo-republicanism, relational egalitarianism, communitarianism, contractualism) and how these compare with more familiar theories of justice across time. There are also questions about how much age-group justice affects debates about what cohorts owe to one another (and vice-versa). There are also many topics to which theories of intergenerational justice have rarely been applied but are increasingly crucial, such as the welfare state.
This panel welcomes submissions on any of these topics and more. Contributions related to the following issues, although not limited to them, are hence welcome.
This panel welcomes submissions on any of these topics and more. Contributions related to the following issues, although not limited to them, are hence welcome.
- Theories of intergenerational justice.
- Ageism and Age-group Justice
- Historical Injustice Today
- Ethics of Extinction
- The Temporal Scope of Justice
- The Welfare State and Retirement pensions
- Intergenerational versus Global Justice
- Ethics of Demographic Ageing
- Climate Justice
- Generational sovereignty
- Constitutional Rigidity