Tim Meijers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Meijers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Meijers |
| SIGNATURE | MEIJERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0457-2044 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
No Time for Limitarianism? The Temporal Scope of Having Too Much
Limitarianism holds that it is bad or unjust if some people have too much. It has been the subject of much debate in the last few years. Yet one crucial question, so far not discussed, is the temporal scope of “having too much.” Should we think of limitarianism in terms of lifetimes—whereby extreme wealth refers to how much we have over our entire lives? Or should the principle be time-sliced—referring instead to how much we have at any given mom…
Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap: A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity
Axel Gosseries considers, and partly defends, several strategies to address the non-identity problem (NIP). We engage critically with two strategies endorsed by Gosseries: the severance strategy and the overlap strategy. The latter comprises two different sub-strategies: the containment sub-strategy and the indirect sub-strategy. We believe that severance is less promising than Gosseries suggests. It comes at a high theoretical cost, which is imp…
Relational egalitarianism, future generations, and arguments from overlap
Zipper arguments and duties regarding future generations
Most of us believe that it would be unjust to act with indifference about the plight of future generations. Zipper arguments in intergenerational justice aim to show that we have duties of justice regarding future generations, regardless of whether we have duties of justice to future generations. By doing so, such arguments circumvent the foundational challenges that come with theorising duties to remote future generations, which result from the …
Animal Population Ethics
In this paper, we explore four features that could potentially render animal population axiology and ethics significantly different from human population axiology and ethics. We begin with the need for and challenges to multispecies population ethics. We then look at the claim that many animals—as opposed to humans—may not have a life worth living. We also consider whether animal species extinction raises distinct issues that differ from human ex…
Migrants by plane and migrants by stork: Can we refuse citizenship to one, but not the other
States combine the routine refusal of citizenship to migrants with policies that grant newborns of citizens (or residents) full membership of society without questions asked. This paper asks what, if anything, can justify this differential treatment of the two types of newcomers. It explores arguments for differential treatment based on the differential environmental impact, different impact on the (political) culture of the society in question a…
The agents of justice
The complexities of how justice comes to be realized, and by which agents, is a relatively neglected element in contemporary theories of justice. This has left several crucial questions about agency and justice undertheorized, such as why some particular agents are responsible for realizing justice, how their contribution towards realizing justice should be understood, and what role agents such as activists and community leaders play in realizing…
Luck Egalitarianism: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and His Critics
The Value in Procreation: A Pro-tanto Case for a Limited and Conditional Right to Procreate
Samuel Scheffler, Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford: (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. viii + 146
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Equality, responsibility, and justice
In this introduction, we underline the theoretical connection between responsibility, luck, and equality upon which luck egalitarianism rests, and we consider the social and political relevance of the approach. We then situate Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’s version of the view as proposed in his book, Luck Egalitarianism, in the egalitarian landscape. Lastly, we introduce the six papers that make up this symposium: some are critiques from within or o…
Equality, value pluralism and relevance: Is luck egalitarianism in one way good, but not all things considered
Some luck egalitarians argue that justice is just one value among others and is thus not necessarily what we should strive for in order to make the world better. Yet, by focusing on only one dimension of what matters – luck equality – it proves very difficult to draw political implications in cases where several values are in tension. We believe that normative political philosophy must have the ambitionto guide political action. Hence, in this pa…
Citizens in appropriate numbers: Evaluating five claims about justice and population size
While different worries about population size are present in public debates, political philosophers often take population size as given. This paper is an attempt to formulate a Rawlsian liberal egalitarian approach to population size: does it make sense to speak of ‘too few’ or ‘too many’ people from the point of view of justice? It argues that, drawing on key features of liberal egalitarian theory, several clear constraints on demographic develo…
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts
This article addresses the question what—if anything—we can and should expect from the practice of international criminal justice. It argues that neither retributive nor purely consequentialist, deterrence-based justifications give sufficient guidance as to what international criminal courts should aim to achieve. Instead, the legal theory of expressivism provides a more viable (but not unproblematic) guide. Contrary to other expressivist views, …
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts
This article addresses the question what—if anything—we can and should expect from the practice of international criminal justice. It argues that neither retributive nor purely consequentialist, deterrence-based justifications give sufficient guidance as to what international criminal courts should aim to achieve. Instead, the legal theory of expressivism provides a more viable (but not unproblematic) guide. Contrary to other expressivist views, …
The agents of justice
The complexities of how justice comes to be realized, and by which agents, is a relatively neglected element in contemporary theories of justice. This has left several crucial questions about agency and justice undertheorized, such as why some particular agents are responsible for realizing justice, how their contribution towards realizing justice should be understood, and what role agents such as activists and community leaders play in realizing…
Zipper arguments and duties regarding future generations
Most of us believe that it would be unjust to act with indifference about the plight of future generations. Zipper arguments in intergenerational justice aim to show that we have duties of justice regarding future generations, regardless of whether we have duties of justice to future generations. By doing so, such arguments circumvent the foundational challenges that come with theorising duties to remote future generations, which result from the …
Equality, value pluralism and relevance: Is luck egalitarianism in one way good, but not all things considered
Some luck egalitarians argue that justice is just one value among others and is thus not necessarily what we should strive for in order to make the world better. Yet, by focusing on only one dimension of what matters – luck equality – it proves very difficult to draw political implications in cases where several values are in tension. We believe that normative political philosophy must have the ambitionto guide political action. Hence, in this pa…
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
Constructions of Legitimacy: The Charles Taylor Trial
This article examines the discourses of the prosecution and the defence in the case of Charles Taylor before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It contributes to current debates about the legitimacy and utility of international criminal justice, which have tended to neglect the examination of actual trials, and particularly the role of the defence. We draw on the legal doctrine of ‘expressivism’ to theorize the connection between normative legit…
Trials as Messages of Justice: What Should Be Expected of International Criminal Courts
This article addresses the question what—if anything—we can and should expect from the practice of international criminal justice. It argues that neither retributive nor purely consequentialist, deterrence-based justifications give sufficient guidance as to what international criminal courts should aim to achieve. Instead, the legal theory of expressivism provides a more viable (but not unproblematic) guide. Contrary to other expressivist views, …
Citizens in appropriate numbers: Evaluating five claims about justice and population size
While different worries about population size are present in public debates, political philosophers often take population size as given. This paper is an attempt to formulate a Rawlsian liberal egalitarian approach to population size: does it make sense to speak of ‘too few’ or ‘too many’ people from the point of view of justice? It argues that, drawing on key features of liberal egalitarian theory, several clear constraints on demographic develo…
Equality, responsibility, and justice
In this introduction, we underline the theoretical connection between responsibility, luck, and equality upon which luck egalitarianism rests, and we consider the social and political relevance of the approach. We then situate Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen’s version of the view as proposed in his book, Luck Egalitarianism, in the egalitarian landscape. Lastly, we introduce the six papers that make up this symposium: some are critiques from within or o…
Equality, value pluralism and relevance: Is luck egalitarianism in one way good, but not all things considered
Some luck egalitarians argue that justice is just one value among others and is thus not necessarily what we should strive for in order to make the world better. Yet, by focusing on only one dimension of what matters – luck equality – it proves very difficult to draw political implications in cases where several values are in tension. We believe that normative political philosophy must have the ambitionto guide political action. Hence, in this pa…
Luck Egalitarianism: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen and His Critics
The Value in Procreation: A Pro-tanto Case for a Limited and Conditional Right to Procreate
Samuel Scheffler, Why Worry About Future Generations? (Oxford: (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. viii + 146
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The agents of justice
The complexities of how justice comes to be realized, and by which agents, is a relatively neglected element in contemporary theories of justice. This has left several crucial questions about agency and justice undertheorized, such as why some particular agents are responsible for realizing justice, how their contribution towards realizing justice should be understood, and what role agents such as activists and community leaders play in realizing…
Animal Population Ethics
In this paper, we explore four features that could potentially render animal population axiology and ethics significantly different from human population axiology and ethics. We begin with the need for and challenges to multispecies population ethics. We then look at the claim that many animals—as opposed to humans—may not have a life worth living. We also consider whether animal species extinction raises distinct issues that differ from human ex…
Migrants by plane and migrants by stork: Can we refuse citizenship to one, but not the other
States combine the routine refusal of citizenship to migrants with policies that grant newborns of citizens (or residents) full membership of society without questions asked. This paper asks what, if anything, can justify this differential treatment of the two types of newcomers. It explores arguments for differential treatment based on the differential environmental impact, different impact on the (political) culture of the society in question a…
Zipper arguments and duties regarding future generations
Most of us believe that it would be unjust to act with indifference about the plight of future generations. Zipper arguments in intergenerational justice aim to show that we have duties of justice regarding future generations, regardless of whether we have duties of justice to future generations. By doing so, such arguments circumvent the foundational challenges that come with theorising duties to remote future generations, which result from the …
Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap: A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity
Axel Gosseries considers, and partly defends, several strategies to address the non-identity problem (NIP). We engage critically with two strategies endorsed by Gosseries: the severance strategy and the overlap strategy. The latter comprises two different sub-strategies: the containment sub-strategy and the indirect sub-strategy. We believe that severance is less promising than Gosseries suggests. It comes at a high theoretical cost, which is imp…
Relational egalitarianism, future generations, and arguments from overlap
No Time for Limitarianism? The Temporal Scope of Having Too Much
Limitarianism holds that it is bad or unjust if some people have too much. It has been the subject of much debate in the last few years. Yet one crucial question, so far not discussed, is the temporal scope of “having too much.” Should we think of limitarianism in terms of lifetimes—whereby extreme wealth refers to how much we have over our entire lives? Or should the principle be time-sliced—referring instead to how much we have at any given mom…
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