Relations between people who are alive today with people who may exist in the future and people now deceased raise new conceptual, logical and substantive questions and have become a major subject of philosophical research. The essays selected for this volume explore a range of philosophical and legal issues raised by these relations and discuss their relevance to current policy areas such as reparations for historical injustice and climate change and its consequences.

Lukas H. Meyer is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Philosophy, University of Graz, Austria

Contents: Introduction; Part I Foundations: Utilitarianism and new generations, Jan Narveson; Distributive shares, John Rawls; The non-identity problem, Derek Parfit; The intractability of the non-identity problem, David Heyd; Surviving duties and symbolic compensation, Lukas H. Meyer; Discounting the future, John Broome; What motivates us to care for the (distant) future?, Dieter Birnbacher. Part II Substantive Principles of Intergenerational Justice: Wrongful life, procreative responsibility, and the significance of harm, Seana Valentine Shiffrin; Sustainability and intergenerational justice, Brian Barry; Nonideal theory, John Rawls; Enough for the future, Lukas H. Meyer and Dominic Roser; Three models of intergenerational reciprocity, Axel Gosseries; Life extension versus replacement, Gustaf Arrhenius; The pure intergenerational problem, Stephen M. Gardiner; Climate change and the duties of the advantaged, Simon Caney. Part III Normative Significance of Historical Injustices and their Consequences: The new Indian claims and original rights to land, David Lyons; Superseding historic injustice, Jeremy Waldron; The apology paradox, Janna Thompson; Transgenerational compensation, George Sher; Who can be wronged?, Rahul Kumar; On benefiting from injustice, Daniel Butt; Climate justice and historical emissions, Lukas H. Meyer and Dominic Roser; Name index.