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Professor David Benatar
BSocSc(Hons) PhD Cape Town

Professor and Head of Department

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

Current courses: 
PHI1010S: Ethics
PHI2037F: Applied Ethics 
Bioethics at the Medical School

Office: 6.30
Email: Please contact Ms. Gilbert.

University Committees:
Academic Freedom Committee
Dean's Advisory Committee
Masters Degree Examination Committee
Humanities Faculty Ad Hominem Promotions Committee
Senate

Better Never to Have Been  Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: 2006

The Second Sexism  Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publication Date: 2012 (Forthcoming)

Ethics for Everyday Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 2002

Life, Death and Meaning  Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publication Date: 2004; Second edition 2010

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

Debates

Affirmative Action
Antiretrovirals
 

Humour

Not the Monday Paper
Sax Appeal