Ageing Without Ageism?: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals - Hardcover

by Greg Bognar (Editor), Axel Gosseries (Editor)

Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy.

With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.

Author Biography

Greg Bognar, Associate Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University, Axel Gosseries, FNRS Research Professor and Professeur extraordinaire, UCLouvain

Greg Bognar is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Stockholm University and a Senior Researcher at the Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics (CHE). Previously, he worked at LaTrobe University in Melbourne, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Center for Bioethics at New York University, and the Central European University. He held research fellowships at Princeton University, Harvard University, and Flinders University. He is co-author of the book The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction (Routledge, 2014; second, expanded edition 2022).

Axel Gosseries is a philosopher (PhD., UCLouvain) and a law scholar (LL.M., London). He is FNRS Research Professor and Professeur extraordinaire at UCLouvain (Belgium) where he heads the Hoover Chair in economic and social ethics and the PPE Program. He has published in philosophy, law and economics journals and has been working for 25 years on issues of intergenerational justice. He has taught courses and seminars in 13 countries and has spent research time in a variety of research institutes, including recently at ICUB (Bucharest), ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon), AIAS (Aarhus), IJ-UC (Coimbra), IFFS (Stockholm), the Czech Academy of Sciences (Prague).