1st Edition
Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice Examining Social Hierarchy Across Generations
Introduction: relational equality and intergenerational justice
Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos
1. How should relational egalitarians think of social relations? Intergenerational justice and the argument from temporal non-overlap
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
2. The intergenerational justice dilemma for relational egalitarians
Andreas Bengtson
3. Do we have relational reasons to care about intergenerational equality?
Caleb Althorpe and Elizabeth Finneron-Burns
4. Relational egalitarianism, future generations, and arguments from overlap
Tim Meijers and Dick Timmer
5. Making the future safe for relational equality: social categories and intergenerational justice
Shuk Ying Chan
6. Social relations, institutional status, and future people
Devon Cass
7. Power and future people’s freedom: intergenerational domination, a role-based model
Nicola Mulkeen
Index
Biography
Devon Cass is a Junior Researcher at the Nova University of Lisbon. He works on theories of social and intergenerational justice, with particular focus on relational egalitarianism and republicanism. He received his PhD from the Australian National University in 2021 and has since been a researcher at the University of Manchester, UCLouvain, as well as the Nova University of Lisbon. Originally from British Columbia, Canada, Devon completed his MA in Philosophy at Simon Fraser University and his BA in Philosophy and Political Science at McGill University. His recent papers appear in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, Res Publica, Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, and Law and Philosophy.
Andre Santos Campos is an Assistant Professor at the Nova University of Lisbon. His research concentrates on issues that connect contemporary political theory with jurisprudence and intellectual history, such as democratic theory and intergenerational justice. Among other works, he is the author of Spinoza’s Revolutions in Natural Law (2012) and The Semi-Future Democracy. A Liberal Theory of the Long-Term View (2024).
