The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics

Stephen M. Gardiner is Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also Director of the Program on Ethics. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change (2011), and co-author of Debating Climate Ethics (2016). His edited books include The Ethics of "Geoengineering" the Global Climate (2020), The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Ethics (2016), Climate Ethics: Essential Readings (2010) and Virtue Ethics: Old and New (2005). His latest book, Dialogues on Climate Justice (co-authored with Arthur Obst), tells the story of Hope, a fictional protagonist whose life is shaped by a series of conversations about ethics and justice in a climate-challenged world.

• INTRODUCTION The Intergenerational Turn in Ethics: Modest Extension, Major Transformation, or Jealous Virtues?Stephen M. Gardiner PART A. THEORIES AND TRADITIONS 1. Consequentialism as an Intergenerational Ethic Tim Mulgan 2. A Deontological Approach to Future ConsequencesMolly Gardner 3. For a Care-based Intergenerational EthicRuth Makoff and Rupert Read 4. Contractualism, Interpersonal and IntergenerationalRahul Kumar 5. Intergenerational Cooperation and the Social Contract Joseph Heath 6. Constructivist Contractualism and Future GenerationsGustaf Arrhenius and Emil Andersson 7. Intergenerational Justice and Equality Clark Wolf 8. Global Intergenerational Justice: A Cosmopolitan Perspective Simon Caney 9. The Community, The Nation, and Obligations to Future Generations Avner de-Shalit 10. Hume, Republicanism, and Relations to PosterityJohn O'Neill and John Salter 11. Capabilities, Future Generations, and Climate JusticeBreena Holland 12. Long-Term Non-anthropocentric EthicsJohn Nolt 13. Ancestry and Crisis: Intergenerational Ethics and EcocentrismKyle Whyte 14. Confucianism and Intergenerational EthicsMarion Hourdequin and David B. Wong 15. Kaitiakitanga: Toward an Intergenerational PhilosophyKrushil Wahene 16. Intergenerational Justice: An African PerspectiveErnest-Marie Mbonda and Thierry Ngosso 17. Buen Vivir: A Latin American Contribution to Intra- and Intergenerational EthicsGraciela Vidiella and Facundo Garcia Valverde PART B. KEY CONCEPTS 18. The Centrality of the Tyranny of the Contemporary to Intergenerational EthicsStephen M. Gardiner 19. Intergenerational MetaphorsAxel Gosseries 20. Well-being and Intergenerational EthicsAndrew Moore 21. Basic Needs and Sufficiency: the Foundations of Intergenerational JusticeLucas H. Meyer & Thomas Polzer 22. Natural Resources, Sustainability and Intergenerational EthicsChris Armstrong 23. The Intergenerational Value of Natural HeritageAngela Karlhoff 24. Irreversible LossKai Spiekermann 25. Meaning and Value Across the GenerationsSamuel Scheffler 26. A World They Don't Deserve: Moral failure and deep adaptationAllen Thompson PART C. CENTRAL ISSUES 27. Discounting and Intergenerational EthicsMarc Fleurbaey and Stéphane Zuber 28. The Sustainabilitarian Approach: Utilitarianism, the Discounting of Future Welfare Levels, and SustainabilityJohn E. Roemer 29. Justice between Coexisting Generations Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure 30. The Just Savings PrincipleEric Brandstedt 31. The Family and Intergenerational Justice: A Liberal Egalitarian PerspectiveColin M. Macleod 32. Do We Have Moral Duties to Past People?Geoffrey Scarre 33. Parfit and the Non-Identity ProblemDavid Boonin 34. The Repugnant Conclusion: an OverviewGustaf Arrhenius & Emil Andersson 35. Risk, Responsibility, and Procreative Asymmetries Rivka Weinberg 36. Human Rights & Intergenerational EthicsMarcus Duwell 37. Discursive Justice in and with Future Generations Michael Blake 38. Intergenerational Ethics and Individual Duties: A Cooperative Promotional ApproachElizabeth Cripps 39. Political Institutions & Intergenerational Ethics: Disenfranchising the Future?Anja Karnein 40. Postericide and Intergenerational Ethics Catriona McKinnon PART D: SPECIAL TOPICS 41. Universal State Pension Schemes and the Duties of Retirees Elizabeth Finneron-Burns 42. On "Dynastic" InequalityDan Halliday & Miranda Stewart 43. Intergenerational Justice and DebtPatrick Taylor Smith 44. Reparation as Intergenerational JusticeJanna Thompson 45. Should We Deploy Nuclear Energy? How Intergenerational Ethics Could Help to Escape the DichotomyBehnam Taebi 46. Nuclear Deterrence - Another Perfect Storm Matthew Rendall 47. The Challenge of PopulationSarah Conly 48. Species Conservation, Biotechnology, and Intergenerational EthicsRon Sandler 49. Moral Bioenhancement and Future Generations: Selecting Martyrdom?Julian Savulescu and Hilary Bowman-Smart

This is a truly comprehensive collection, with contributions from professionals across the field of ethics.