Anja Karnein
Associate Professor, Graduate Director of Philosophy
Philosophy
Background
Anja Karnein's main areas of research are intergenerational, climate and global justice. Three concerns drive her research:
- What we owe to others — our contemporaries and future generations — with regard to the just distribution of the benefits and burdens involved in intra-and intertemporal social cooperation
- What happens to our duties under nonideal circumstances, and
- How to ensure, institutionally, that we fulfill our duties
Select Publications
- “Historical Immortality and the Prospect of Human Extinction.” The Journal for the Philosophy of History, 2025.
- “Two Kinds of Social Cooperation?” Economics and Philosophy, 2025.
- “Intergenerational Distributive (Climate) Justice.” Res Publica 2025.
- “What’s Wrong with the Presentist Bias? On the Threat of Intergenerational Domination.” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2023
- “Rawls and the Future: On the Possibility of Cooperation Across Time.” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 2022
She also has expertise in bioethics, such as the ethics of reprogenetic technologies (A Theory of Unborn Life, OUP 2012) and the ethics of parenthood in “Parenthood: Whose Right is it Anyway?” 2012).
Research Interests
- Intergenerational Justice
- Climate Justice
- Global Justice
- Theories of Social Cooperation
- Ethics of Reprogenetic Technologies
- Ethics of Parenthood