This Element provides an exploration of antinatalism, the view that assigns a negative value
to reproduction. First, the history of Western philosophy as a two-and-a-half millennia …

Sustainability, properly understood, is an existential moral ideal. The United Nations,
however, defines it in terms of 17 indivisible sustainable development goals. This definition …

Antinatalism assigns reproduction a negative value. There should be fewer or no births.
Those who say that there should be fewer births have been called conditional antinatalists …

There is no longer any doubt that the coming decades will bring serious threats to humanity
from anthropogenic climate change. As we have suggested elsewhere, horrible scenarios …

We should not have children because (i) we have no child-regarding reasons to do so,(ii) we
have child-regarding reasons not to do so, and (iii) although we have other-regarding …

On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty Generator” Page 1 COMMENTARY On Matti Häyry’s “Exit Duty
Generator” Karim Akerma Independent Scholar Email: akerma@gmx.net Matti Häyry presents a …

RM Hare suggested half a century ago:“If philosophers are going to apply ethical theory
successfully to practical issues, they must first have a theory.” 1 Apart from the obvious literal …

Nudging, according to its inventors and defenders, is supposed to provide a non-coercive
way of changing human behavior for the better—a freedom-respecting form of “libertarian …

Minimalist views of value (axiologies) are evaluative views that define betterness solely in
terms of the absence or reduction of independent bads. For instance, they might roughly …