Donor Advised Funds & Delay: An Intergenerational Justice Solution?

Sustainability and Intergenerational Justice

As temporary custodians of the planet, those who are alive at any given time can do a better or worse job of handing it on to their successors. I take that simple thought to animate concerns about what we ought to be doing to preserve conditions that will make life worth living (or indeed liveable at all) in the future, and especially in the time after those currently alive will have died (‘fut...

Three Conceptions of Intergenerational Justice

Intergenerational Justice and Climate Change EDWARD

Intergenerational Justice and the Chain of Obligation

The actions and decisions taken by the present generation will affect not only the welfare but also the composition of future generations. A number of authors have used this fact to bolster the conclusion that the present is only weakly obligated to provide for future welfare since in choosing between futures of poverty and abundance, we are not deciding the welfare of a welldefined group of fu...

A Solution to Yamakami's Problem on Advised Context-free Languages

Yamakami (Theoret. Comput. Sci., 2011) studies context-free languages with advice functions. Here, the length of an advice is assumed to be the same as that of an input. Let CFL and CFL/n denote the class of all context-free languages and that with advice functions, respectively. We let CFL(2) denote the class of intersections of two context-free languages. An interesting direction of a researc...