1st Edition

Ethics and Future Generations

Edited By Rahul Kumar Copyright 2018
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

Existing human beings stand in a unique relationship of asymmetrical influence over future generations. Our choices now can settle whether there are any human beings in the further future; how many will exist; what capacities and abilities they might have; and what the character of the natural world they inhabit is like. This volume, with contributions from both new voices and prominent,... Read more

1. Rethinking the Asymmetry  2. A portable defense of the Procreation Asymmetry  3. Is a person-affecting solution to the non-identity problem impossible? Axiology, accessibility and additional people  4. Our obligations to future generations: the limits of intergenerational justice and the necessity of the ethics of metaphysics  5. Citizens in appropriate numbers: evaluating five claims about justice and population size  6. The savings problem in the original position: assessing and revising a model  7. How should utilitarians think about the future?  8. The ethics of intergenerational relationships  9. What’s wrong with human extinction?  10. On the survival of humanity  11. The threat of intergenerational extortion: on the temptation to become the climate mafia, masquerading as an intergenerational Robin Hood  12. Endangering humanity: an international crime?  13. Human rights, harm, and climate change mitigation

Biography

Rahul Kumar is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen’s University, Canada.