Introduction: Gosseries on What Is Intergenerational Justice?

Abstract This short article provides an introduction to the special issue “Gosseries on Intergenerational Justice,” so as to guide interested readers. In the first half of the article, we provide a short introduction to Axel Gosseries’s book What Is Intergenerational Justice? where we distill the essence of each chapter. In the second half, we succinctly summarize the main points in each of the special issue’s contributions (to which Gosseries responds in the “reply to critics” article that concludes the special issue).