Emeritus Professor David Benatar
BSocSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town
Director, Bioethics Centre
Areas of interest: moral and social philosophy, applied ethics, some philosophy of law and philosophy of religion.
University Committees:
Senate
Office: 3.03 Humanities Building
Current courses:
Away on sabbatical from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2023.
Books:
Better Never to Have Been
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2006
The Second Sexism
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2012
Debating Procreation
(Co-author: David Wasserman)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2015
The Human Predicament
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2017
Booklets:
Praštanje (Forgiveness)
(Croatian translation by Filip Grgić)
Publisher: Institute za filozofiju, Zagreb, Croatia
Publication Date: 2020
Conversations about the Meaning of Life
(Co-authors: Thaddeus Metz, Jason Werbeloff, Mark Oppenheimer)
Publisher: Obsidian Worlds Publishing
Publication Date: 2021
Edited books:
Ethics for Everyday
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Publication Date: 2002
Life, Death and Meaning
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 2004; Second Edition 2010; Third Edition 2016
Cutting to the Core: Exploring the Ethics of Contested Surgeries
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Publication Date: 2006
Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children
(Co-edited with David Archard)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2010