BSocSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town

Emeritus Professor

Areas of interest: moral and social philosophy, applied ethics, some philosophy of law and philosophy of religion.

Professor Benatar is currently living in North America

 

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

 

Offwhite book cover. Top, book title 'Very practical ethics', middle, a row of three apples, first red then yellow and last green, at the bottom, David Benatar

  Very Practical Ethics 
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
 Publication Date: 2024

 

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

 

Book cover: A peach coloured skin above sand dune cast in shadow. Over top of the cover is the book title 'Living with adversity', below it a subtitle, Eighteen Personal Accounts. At the bottom of the cover, edited by David Benatar

Living with Adversity  
Publisher: Resource Publications (Wipf and Stock)
Publication Date: 2026