1. Contemporary Anti-Natalism, Featuring Benatar’s Better Never to Have Been
Thaddeus Metz
2. Hooray for Babies
David Spurrett
3. Are Lives Worth Creating?
Thaddeus Metz
4. Better to Be
David Boonin
5. Is Having Children Always Wrong?
Rivka Weinberg
6. Sick and Healthy: Benatar on the Logic of Value
Skott Brill
7. Better No Longer to Be
Rafe McGregor and Ema Sullivan-Bissett
8. Life Is Good
Saul Smilansky
9. How Best to Prevent Future Persons from Suffering: A Reply to Benatar
Brooke Alan
10. Antinatalism, Asymmetry, and an Ethic of Prima Facie Duties
Gerald Harrison
11. Furthering the Case for Anti- Natalism: Seana Shiffrin and the Limits of Permissible Harm
Asheel Singh
12. A New Argument for Anti- Natalism
Christopher Belshaw
13. Every Conceivable Harm: A Further Defence of Anti- Natalism
David Benatar
Biography
Thaddeus Metz, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, South Africa is particularly known for his work on philosophical approaches to the meaning of life. His books on the topic include: Meaning in Life; God, Soul and the Meaning of Life; and What Makes a Life Meaningful? A Debate (with Joshua Seachris, Routledge 2023).
