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8Birthright Entitlements and Obligations in an Intergenerational Political SocietyThe Monist 106 (2): 132-144. 2023.Political societies are essentially intergenerational—not only because they often last for many generations and because they maintain their existence largely through members having or adopting children, but because the children of members acquire entitlements simply as a result of being born or adopted by members. Even in a liberal political society, members by birth or adoption are supposed to enjoy from birth the irrevocable status of membership and the privileges it entails. They have opportu…Read more
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74Cultural Property, Restitution and ValueJournal of Applied Philosophy 20 (3). 2003.abstract Demands for restitution of cultural artefacts and relics raise four main issues: 1) how claims to cultural property can be justified; 2) whether and under what conditions demands for restitution of cultural property are valid — especially when they are made long after the artefacts were taken away; 3) whether there are values, aesthetic, scholarly and educational, which can override restitution claims, even when these claims are legitimate; and 4) how these values bear on the question o…Read more
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Human nature and social explanationIn Steven Peter Russell Rose & Dialectics of Biology Group (eds.), Against Biological Determinism, Distributed in the Usa By Schocken Books. 1982.
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Introduction: Beyond the legalist paradigmIn Klaus Neumann & Janna Thompson (eds.), Historical justice and memory, The University of Wisconsin Press. 2015.
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Reparative claims and theories of justiceIn Klaus Neumann & Janna Thompson (eds.), Historical justice and memory, The University of Wisconsin Press. 2015.
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12Historical justice and memory (edited book)The University of Wisconsin Press. 2015.Historical Justice and Memory highlights the global movement for historical justice—acknowledging and redressing historic wrongs—as one of the most significant moral and social developments of our times. Such historic wrongs include acts of genocide, slavery, systems of apartheid, the systematic persecution of presumed enemies of the state, colonialism, and the oppression of or discrimination against ethnic or religious minorities. The historical justice movement has inspired the spread of truth…Read more
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44Groups as intergenerational agents: Responsibility through time and changeJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (1): 8-20. 2022.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 8-20, Spring 2022.
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20Inherited Obligations and Generational ContinuityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 493-515. 1999.Those who believe that they have special obligations to their community — to their family, state or nation, clan, tribe, or cultural group — often insist that they have duties not merely to present and future members. They also claim to have responsibilities to, or in respect to, their predecessors. David Miller, in his defence of ‘nationality,’ claims that the existence of a nation as a historical community is one of the features which make it ‘a community of obligation.’ ‘“Because our forebear…Read more
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1The Sorting Society: The Ethics of Genetic Screening and Therapy (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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5Response to Loane Skene, ‘should Women Be Paid for Donating Their Eggs for Human Embryo Research?’Monash Bioethics Review 28 (4): 9-12. 2009.
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16Ethics for a Broken World: Imagining Philosophy after Catastrophe, by Tim Mulgan: Durham, UK: Acumen, 2011, pp. xii + 228, £16.99/us$22.95 (paperback) (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 615-617. 2013.No abstract
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15The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits, and Uncertainties of the Shale RevolutionThe European Legacy 24 (7-8): 882-884. 2019.Volume 24, Issue 7-8, November - December 2019, Page 882-884.
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22Historical Responsibility and Liberal SocietyIntergenerational Justice Review 1 (1). 2009.Why should leaders of polities; as representatives of citizens; be required to apologise and make reparations for deeds committed in the historical past? Assumptions commonly made by liberals about the scope of responsibility and the duties of citizens make this question difficult to answer. This paper considers some unsuccessful attempts within a liberal framework to defend obligations of reparation for historical injustices and puts forward an account based on the lifetime-transcending interes…Read more
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344Injustices of the past cast a shadow on the present. They are the root cause of much harm, the source of enmity, and increasingly in recent times, the focus of demands for reparation. In this groundbreaking philosophical investigation, Janna Thompson examines the problems raised by reparative demands and puts forward a theory of reparation for historical injustices. The book argues that the problems posed by historical injustices are best resolved by a reconciliatory view of reparative justice a…Read more
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62The ethics of intergenerational relationshipsCanadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (2-3): 313-326. 2017.According to the relational approach we have obligations to members of future generations not because of their interests or properties but because, and only because, they are our descendants or successors. Common accounts of relational duties do not explain how we can have obligations to people who do not yet exist. In this defence of the relational approach I examine three sources of intergenerational obligations: the concern of parents for their children, including their future children; the d…Read more
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3War and the protection of propertyIn Igor Primoratz (ed.), Civilian immunity in war, Clarendon Press. 2005.
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14Terrorism, Morality and Right AuthorityIn Georg Meggle, Andreas Kemmerling & Mark Textor (eds.), Ethics of Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism, De Gruyter. pp. 151-160. 2004.
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18In this timely study, Thompson presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, showing why people can make legitimate demands of their successors and explaining what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair. What connects these various responsibilities and entitlements is a view about individual interests that both argues that individuals are motivated by intergenerational concerns, and that a polity that appropriately…Read more
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47Inherited Obligations and Generational ContinuityCanadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (4): 493-515. 1999.Those who believe that they have special obligations to their community — to their family, state or nation, clan, tribe, or cultural group — often insist that they have duties not merely to present and future members. They also claim to have responsibilities to, or in respect to, their predecessors. David Miller, in his defence of ‘nationality,’ claims that the existence of a nation as a historical community is one of the features which make it ‘a community of obligation.’ ‘“Because our forebear…Read more
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1Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational PolityIn Axel Gosseries & Lukas H. Meyer (eds.), Intergenerational Justice, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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92Obligations of Justice and the Interests of the DeadInternational Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (2): 289-300. 2016.Intergenerational justice gives present citizens obligations to past as well as future generations. Present members of a political society have an obligation to respect the contributions of their predecessors. But respect for past generations also means taking their intergenerational objectives into account in political decision-making—giving them weight in determining intergenerational policies—and thus treating past generations as participants in intergenerational policymaking. Neither the ina…Read more
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132Focusing on contemporary social issues-- the environmental crisis, population growth and demographic change, and the question of whether reparations are owed to indigenous peoples--this study presents a theory of intergenerational justice that gives citizens duties to past and future generations, and explains what relationships between contemporary generations count as fair
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Rights of Future Generations |
Rights to Reparations |
Environmental Value, Misc |