Author Description

About the Author Yoon-Jae Chung is Associate Professor, The Academy of Korean Studies, Seoul, Korea. He was a Visiting Scholar, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge at the time of the conference. John Dunn is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Ross Harrison is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Takatoshi Imada is Professor of Sociology, Graduate School of Decision Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. Tae-Chang Kim is President, Institute for the Integrated Study of Future Generations, Kyoto, Japan and member, Board of Directors, Future Generations Alliance Foundation, New York, USA. Masaya Kobayashi is Associate Professor, Faculty of Law and Economics, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences and Visiting Bye-Fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge, 1995/6-97 and September 1998. John O'Neill is Profesor of Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Lancaster University. Onora O'Neill is Principal, Newnham College, Cambridge. Edward Page is a Research assistant in the Department of Politics, Southampton University. Takeshi Sasaki is Professor and Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Product Description The pioneering work of Derek Parfit revealed how our attitudes to the long-term effects of our actions are crucially bound up with our ideas of personal identity. This new collection of essays contrasts eastern and western philosophies of concern for the future, and offers some suggestions for their possible reconciliation. Includes contributions by Yoon-Jae Chung, John Dunn, Takatoshi Imada, Masaya Kobayashi, John O'Neill, Onora O'Neill, Edward Page and Takesha Sasaki From the Back Cover Japanese contributions in this volume include remarkable papers by representative political and social theo