“Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence”, in American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3, July 1997, pp. 345-355.
(Translated into Italian by Luca Lo Sapio, and republished: “Perché è meglio non venire mai al mondo”, Scienzaefilosofia, No. 27, 2022, pp. 314-335.)
“Same-Sex Marriage and Sex Discrimination”, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Law, Vol. 97, Number 1, Fall 1997, pp. 71-74.
“Brer Hare: Ruminations on a Religious Argument” in European Judaism, Vol. 30 No. 2, Autumn 1997, pp. 108-111.
“The Closing of the South African Jewish Mind”, in The Jewish Spectator, Volume 62, No. 2, Fall 1997, pp. 30 – 32. (Co-authored with Milton Shain.)
“Cloning and Ethics”, in QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians, Vol. 91, 1998, pp. 165-166.
“Informed Consent and Research” in British Medical Journal, Vol. 316, 28 March 1998, p. 1008.(Co-authored with Solomon Benatar.)
“Corporal Punishment”, in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 24, No 2, Summer 1998, pp. 237-260.
“The Unbearable Lightness of Bringing into Being” in Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1999, pp. 173-180.
“Prejudice in Jest: When Racial and Gender Humor Harms” in Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1999, pp. 191-203.
“Beyond the Haze of the Tobacco Bill Debate”, in the South African Medical Journal, Vol. 89, No. 7, July 1999, pp. 752-754.
“The Wrong of Wrongful Life”, in American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 2, April 2000, pp. 175-183.
“Duty and the Beast: Animal Experimentation and Neglected Interests”, in QJM: Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians, Vol. 93, 2000, pp. 831-835.
“A Pain in the Fetus: Toward Ending Confusion about Fetal Pain”, in Bioethics, Vol. 15, No. 1, 2001, pp. 57-76. (Co-authored with Michael Benatar)
“Against Commanding to Believe”, in Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 2001, pp. 87-104.
“Why the Naïve Argument Against Moral Vegetarianism Really is Naïve”, in Environmental Values, Vol. 10, No.1, 2001, pp. 103-12.
“To Be or Not to Have Been?: Defective Counterfactual Reasoning About One’s Own Existence”,International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2001, pp. 255-266.
“A Tale of Two Novel Transplants Not Done: The Ethics of Limb Allografts”, British Medical Journal, Vol. 324, 20 April 2002, pp. 971-973. (Co-authored with Don Hudson.)
“Obligation, Motivation and Reward: An Analysis of a Talmudic Principle”, in the Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 17, Nos. 1&2, 2002, pp. 1-17.
“Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Paedophilia and Rape”, in Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 3, July 2002, pp. 191-201.
“The Second Sexism’, in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 29. No. 2, April 2003, pp. 177-210.
“The Second Sexism, A Second Time”, in Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 29. No. 2, April 2003, pp. 275-296.
“Between Prophylaxis and Child Abuse: The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision”, American Journal of Bioethics, Vol. 3, No. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 35-48. (Co-authored with Michael Benatar)
“How not to argue about circumcision", American Journal of Bioethics. Vol. 3 No. 2, Spring 2003, pp. W1-9. (Co-authored with Michael Benatar)
“What is so special about an age of genetics?” in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Medicine and Philosophy, Vol. 03, No. 2, Spring 2004, pp. 31-33.
“Questioning the Shaitel” in Jewish Affairs, Rosh Hashana 2004, pp. 38-9.
“Sexist Language: Alternatives to the Alternatives”, in Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 1-9.
“The Trouble with Universal Declarations” in Developing World Bioethics, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2005, pp. 220-224.
“Bioethics and Health and Human Rights: a critical view”, in The Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 32, No. 1, January 2006, pp. 17-20.
“Teaching Ethics for Everyday” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Vol. 5, No. 2, Spring 2006, pp. 8-12.
“Reproductive Freedom and Risk”, Human Reproduction, Vol. 21, No. 10, October 2006, pp. 2491-3.
“What’s God Got To Do With It?: Atheism and Religious Practice”, in Ratio, Vol. XIX, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 383-400.
“Unscientific Ethics”, Hastings Center Report, Vol. 37(1), 2007, pp. 30-32.
“The Chickens Come Home to Roost”, American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 97, No. 9, September 2007, pp. 1545-6.
“Justice, Diversity and Racial Preference: A Critique of Affirmative Action”, South African Law Journal, Vol. 125, Part 2, 2008, pp. 274-306.
“Diversity Limited”, in Laurence M. Thomas (Ed.), Contemporary Debates in Social Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, pp. 212-225.
“Non-therapeutic paediatric interventions” in Peter A. Singer and Adrian Viens (Eds.),Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 127-131.
“Why do Jewish egalitarians not circumcise their daughters?”, Jewish Affairs, Chanukah 2008, pp. 21-23.
“The Optimism Delusion”, Think, Winter 2008, pp. 19-22.
“Just Admissions: South African universities and the question of racial preference”, South African Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 24, No. 2, 2010, pp. 258-267.
“Indiscretion and other threats to confidentiality”, South African Journal of Bioethics and Law, Vol. 3, No. 2, December 2010, pp. 59-62.
“Assisted Suicide, Voluntary Euthanasia, and the Right to Life”, in Jon Yorke (Ed.), The Right to Life and the Value of Life: Orientations in Law, Politics and Ethics, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, pp. 291-310.
“The Limits of Reproductive Freedom”, in David Archard and David Benatar (Eds.) Procreation and Parenthood, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 78-102.
“Philosophers Interested in Area Man, but not in Gay Way”, in Sharon Kaye (Ed.), The Onion and Philosophy, Open Court, 2010, pp. 79-86.
“Animals, the Environment, and Global Health”, in Solomon Benatar & Gillian Brock (Eds.),Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2011, pp. 210-220.
“A first name basis?”, Think, Autumn 2011, pp. 51-57.
“How do any of us live in this strange place? A reply to Samantha Vice”, South African Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 31, No. 4, December 2012, pp. 619-31.
“Suicide: A Qualified Defence”, in James Stacey Taylor (Ed.), The Metaphysics and Ethics of Death: New Essays, New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 222-44.
“Taking Humour (Ethics) Seriously, but not too Seriously”, Journal of Practical Ethics, Vol. 2, No. 1, June 2014, pp. 24-43.
"The Gendered Conference Campaign: A Critique", Philosophia, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2015, pp. 13-23.
"The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism" in Sarah Hannan, Samantha Brennan and Richard Vernon (Eds.), Permissible Progeny?: The Morality of Procreation and Parenting, New York: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 34-64.
“Where are the males? Diversity, proportionality and Health Sciences admissions”, South African Medical Journal, April 2016, Vol. 106, No. 4, pp. 323-4.
“Forsaking Wisdom”, The Philosophers’ Magazine, First Quarter 2016, pp. 23-24.
“Foreword” to Anti-Natalism: Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar, Sarasota FL: First Design Publishing, 2016, pp. i-ii.
“Reproducing Companion Animals” (with Jessica du Toit), in Christine Overall (Ed.), Pets and People: The Ethics of Our Relationships with Companion Animals, New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, pp. 157-171.
“La Vie”, in Julien Deonna and Emma Tieffenbach (Eds.), Petit Traité Des Valeurs, Paris: Ithaque, 2018, pp. 315-322.
“A précis of your predicament”, Evolutionary Psychological Science, Vol. 4, 2018, pp. 268-271.
“Not ‘Not Better Never to Have Been’: A reply to Christine Overall”, Philosophia, Vol 47, No. 2, 2019, pp. 353-367
“Famine, Affluence, and Procreation: Peter Singer and Anti-natalism Lite”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2020, pp. 415-431.
“Suicide is sometimes rational and morally defensible”, in Michael Cholbi and Travis Timmerman (Eds.), Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying, New York: Routledge, 2021, pp. 217-223.
“Emotional support animals are not like prosthetics: a response to Sara Kolmes” (with Jessica du Toit), Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 47, No. 9, September 2021, pp. 639-640.
“Homosexuality, Bestiality, and Necrophilia”, in David Boonin (Ed.), Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, pp. 223-231.
“Misconceived: Why these further criticisms of anti-natalism fail”, Journal of Value Inquiry, Vol. 56, No. 1, 2022, pp. 119-151.
“Pessimism, Optimism, and the Meaning of Life”, in Iddo Landau (Ed.), Oxford Companion to the Meaning of Life, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 431-443.
“Why we have no duty to eat meat: A reply to Nick Zangwill”, Public Affairs Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, October 2022, pp. 331-343.
“The Uphill Battle of Unpopular Ideas”, Journal of Controversial Ideas, Vol. 2, Issue 2, October 2022.
A component of this republished: “Equal rights but also equal responsibilities: lessons from Ukraine”, Mercatornet, 9 November 2022.
Spanish translation: “La ardua batalla de las ideas impopulares”, RuletaRusa, 12 December 2022.