Table of Contents

Introduction

Part I: Looking Back

1.  Should We Worry About Presentism?

2. The Question of [Anyone’s] Guilt: Collective Liability to Punishment

3.  For Benefits Received

4.  Giving Back: The Case of Stolen Art

5.  Bad Memories

Part II: Going Forth

6.  The Prior Question: Assessing the Benatar Thesis

7.  Coming to Terms with Yoder

8.  Only Egalitarians May Have Children

9.  If the Future is a Foreign Country…

10.  The Rights of Past and Future Persons

Conclusion

Promotional Information

"Richard Vernon draws on a richly eclectic range of sources in this clearly written, sophisticated, and rewarding book." -- Daniel Butt, Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University "Justice Back and Forth contains a number of insightful points and arguments while covering a vast amount of territory. It makes a significant and important contribution to the field." -- Timothy Waligore, Department of Economics, History, and Political Science, Pace University

About the Author

Richard Vernon is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Political Science at Western University.

Reviews

"Justice Back and Forth: Duties to the Past and Future provides an excellent overview of issues faced when thinking about temporal justice. By addressing interesting and somewhat well-known problems, Richard Vernon exposes the reader to the current academic theory and literature on the topic, and adeptly links together considerations and solutions for both past and future conceptions of temporal justice." - Brad Smith (Saskatchewan Law Review) "Embracing several philosophical sub-disciplines—political philosophy, ethics, and applied ethics – this book is an excellent exploration of the complexities of philosophical topics that are not often thought of together." - Christine Overall, Queen's University (Journal of Moral Philosophy, vol 16)