Philosophisches Seminar
PhilosophischesSeminar
International Workshop "Vulnerability and Intergenerational Justice: Obligations of States"
9. Mai 2025
Foto: UHH/Esfandiari
The International Workshop 2025 on "Vulnerability and Intergenerational Justice: Obligations of States" will take place on the 9th of May 10:00 - 16:00 at AS Saal (Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1)
The workshop seeks to explore the role and significance of future generations’ vulnerability in intergenerational justice. We invite abstracts addressing topics including, but not limited to:
-What duties do states have to prevent or mitigate future generations’ vulnerability?
-How should relationships of vulnerability between temporally distant groups be conceptualized?
-Is future generations’ vulnerability relevant for long-termism?
-Does vulnerability to past policymakers raise specific relational concerns, and what duties might these concerns ground?
-Can there be value in future generations’ vulnerability, for example, as a reflection of enduring political institutions or shared history?
-Do future state officials have special responsibilities to address the vulnerability caused by their predecessors’ policies?
-Are democratic states especially responsible for future generations’ vulnerability because their citizens democratically authorize policies with long-term effects?
-How does the non-identity problem affect the vulnerability of future generations?
-Do current procreators have special responsibilities concerning future generations’ vulnerability, and if so, how should the state enforce these?
Program (PDF)
| Time | Speaker | Topic |
| 10.00-10.15 Registration and Welcome Address | ||
| 10.15-11:00 | Simon Caney (University of Warwick) | “Democracy and the Vulnerability of Future Generations” |
| Discussant: Elena Libera (University of Oxford) | ||
| 11:00-11.15 Coffee Break |
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| 11.15-12:00 | Matthew Wiseman (University of Southern California) | "Future People’s Vulnerability and the Right to Legislative Representation" |
| Discussant: Vittorio Gerosa (University of Hamburg) | ||
| 12.00-13.30 Lunch |
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| 13.30-14.15 | Andreas T. Schmidt (University of Groningen) | “The Case for Institutional Longtermism” |
| Discussant: Dorela Dëgjoni (University of Hamburg) | ||
| 14.15-15:00 | Ezekiel Vergara (University of Pennsylvania) | “Future People, Intergenerational Distributive Justice, and Cluelessness” |
| Discussant: Christine Straehle (University of Hamburg) | ||
| 15.00-15.15. Coffee Break | ||
| 15.15-16.00 | Julia Mosquera (Institute for Future Studies, Stockholm) | “Genetic Selection, Functional Diversity, and Long-Term Population Axiology” |
| Discussant: Daniel Häuser (University of Hamburg) | ||
For registration, please contact: vittorio.gerosa"AT"uni-hamburg.de
