Anja Karnein
Biographic Data
| ID | 4375780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anja Karnein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anja |
| FAMILY NAME | Karnein |
| SIGNATURE | KARNEIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3219-1839 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Two kinds of social cooperation
Michael Otsuka argues that collective pension schemes are forms of social cooperation on equal terms for mutual advantage and thus, matters of social justice. In this way Otsuka wants to understand collectively funded pensions in Rawlsian terms. I argue that not all forms of social cooperation are the same and that the specific kind of social cooperation Rawls has in mind is, in at least three central respects, different from the kind of social c…
Historical Immortality and the Prospect of Human Extinction
The consoling features of the idea of historical immortality – the notion that individuals live on in the history of larger wholes, such as the human species – seem to depend on humanity going on forever, thus rendering the prospect of human extinction terrifying. I read The Shadow of God as showing that only some versions of this idea need humanity to continue indefinitely. Others depend on the thought that living on in larger wholes facilitates…
Intergenerational Distributive (Climate) Justice
What’s wrong with the presentist bias? On the threat of intergenerational domination
What is the wrong behind the widely criticized presentist bias of democracies? In this paper I argue that it is not that future generations are excluded from present-day democratic decision-making quite generally. Rather, I claim that due to the unique risks associated with representing future generations and the limitations on affecting future generations both institutionally and causally, the focus ought to be on including them on a more specif…
Rawls and the Future: On the Possibility of Cooperation across Time
Leaving the Ivory Tower? Climate Justice between Theory and Practice
Putting Fairness in Its Place: Why There Is a Duty to Take Up the Slack
A Case Against Perfection by Michael Sandel The Future of Human Nature by Jürgen Habermas
Rawls and the Future: On the Possibility of Cooperation across Time
What’s wrong with the presentist bias? On the threat of intergenerational domination
What is the wrong behind the widely criticized presentist bias of democracies? In this paper I argue that it is not that future generations are excluded from present-day democratic decision-making quite generally. Rather, I claim that due to the unique risks associated with representing future generations and the limitations on affecting future generations both institutionally and causally, the focus ought to be on including them on a more specif…
Leaving the Ivory Tower? Climate Justice between Theory and Practice
A Case Against Perfection by Michael Sandel The Future of Human Nature by Jürgen Habermas
Putting Fairness in Its Place: Why There Is a Duty to Take Up the Slack
Leaving the Ivory Tower? Climate Justice between Theory and Practice
What’s wrong with the presentist bias? On the threat of intergenerational domination
What is the wrong behind the widely criticized presentist bias of democracies? In this paper I argue that it is not that future generations are excluded from present-day democratic decision-making quite generally. Rather, I claim that due to the unique risks associated with representing future generations and the limitations on affecting future generations both institutionally and causally, the focus ought to be on including them on a more specif…
Rawls and the Future: On the Possibility of Cooperation across Time
Two kinds of social cooperation
Michael Otsuka argues that collective pension schemes are forms of social cooperation on equal terms for mutual advantage and thus, matters of social justice. In this way Otsuka wants to understand collectively funded pensions in Rawlsian terms. I argue that not all forms of social cooperation are the same and that the specific kind of social cooperation Rawls has in mind is, in at least three central respects, different from the kind of social c…
Historical Immortality and the Prospect of Human Extinction
The consoling features of the idea of historical immortality – the notion that individuals live on in the history of larger wholes, such as the human species – seem to depend on humanity going on forever, thus rendering the prospect of human extinction terrifying. I read The Shadow of God as showing that only some versions of this idea need humanity to continue indefinitely. Others depend on the thought that living on in larger wholes facilitates…
Intergenerational Distributive (Climate) Justice
Philosophy (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)