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  1. Better Never to Have Been?: The Unseen Implications. [REVIEW]Joseph Packer - 2011 - Philosophia 39 (2):225-235.
    This paper will directly tackle the question of Benatar’s asymmetry at the heart of his book Better Never to have Been and provide a critique based on some of the logical consequences that result from the proposition that every potential life can only be understood in terms of the pain that person would experience if she or he was born. The decision only to evaluate future pain avoided and not pleasure denied for potential people means that we should view each (...)
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  • Moral Philosophy and the ‘Real World’.Christopher J. Cowley - 2011 - Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis 31 (1):21-30.
    Notoriously, most philosophers write for other philosophers. Most philosophy books are designed for students of philosophy, students who can be assumed to have signed up and remained in the subject voluntarily, and therefore to have a certain interest in the subject and a certain understanding of the point of it all. In this paper I want to consider the philosopher’s engagement with those who, living in the ‘real world’, have had neither interest in nor exposure to philosophy beyond the stereotypes (...)
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