Linked bibliography for the SEP article "The Nonidentity Problem" by M. A. Roberts

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Adams, R.M., 1972. “Must God Create the Best?” The Philosophical Review, 81(3): 317–332. (Scholar)
Archard, D., 2004. “Wrongful Life,” Philosophy, 79(3): 403–420. (Scholar)
Archard, D. and D. Benatar, 2010. Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Arrhenius, G., 2000. “An Impossibility Theorem for Welfarist Axiology,” Economics and Philosophy, 16: 247–266. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Can the Person-Affecting Restriction Solve the Problems in Population Ethics?” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 289–314. (Scholar)
Bayles, M. (ed.), 1976. Ethics and Population, Cambridge, MA: Schenkman. (Scholar)
Bayne, T. 2010. “In Defense of Genethical Parity,” in Archard and Benatar (eds.) 2010, pp. 31–56. (Scholar)
Benatar, D., 2006. Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2000. “The Wrong of Wrongful Life,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 37: 175–83. (Scholar)
Bontly, T., 2016. “Causes, Contrasts, and the Non-identity Problem,” Philosophical Studies, 173: 1233–51. (Scholar)
Boonin, D., 2008. “How to Solve the Non-Identity Problem,” Public Affairs Quarterly, 22(2): 129–159. (Scholar)
Broome, J., 1992. Counting the Cost of Global Warming, Cambridge: The White Horse Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2004. Weighing Lives, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “General and Personal Good: Harsanyi’s Contribution to the Theory of Value,” in I. Hirose and J. Olson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 249–266. (Scholar)
Buchanan, A., D. Brock, N. Daniels and D. Wikler, 2000. From Chance to Choice: Genetics and Justice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Carlson, E., forthcoming. “More Problems for the Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm and Benefit,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, first online 26 September 2018. doi: 10.1007/s10677-018-9931-5 (Scholar)
Carter, A., 2001. “Can We Harm Future People?” Environmental Values, 10: 429–54. (Scholar)
Cohen, A. I., 2009. “Compensation for Historic Injustices: Completing the Boxill and Sher Argument,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 37(1): 81–102. (Scholar)
Cooper, R., 2015. “How Might I Have Been?” Metaphilosophy, 46(4–5): 495–513. (Scholar)
Dasgupta, S., 2018. “Essentialism and the Nonidentity Problem,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, XCVI(3): 540–570. (Scholar)
de-Shalit, A., 1995. Why Posterity Matters, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Elliot, R., 1989. “The Rights of Future People,” Journal of Applied Philosophy, 6(2): 159–169. (Scholar)
–––, 1997. “Contingency, Community and Intergenerational Justice,” in N. Fotion and J. Heller (eds.), Contingent Future Persons, Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 157–170. (Scholar)
Feinberg, J. 1988. “Wrongful Life and the Counterfactual Element in Harming,” Social Philosophy & Policy, 4(1): 144–178. (Scholar)
Feldman, F., 1995. “Justice, Desert, and the Repugnant Conclusion,” Utilitas, 7(2): 567–85. (Scholar)
Finneron-Burns, E. 2016., “Contractualism and the Non-identity Problem,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 19: 1151–1163. (Scholar)
Gardner, M., 2015. “A Harm-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem,” Ergo, 2(17), available online. (Scholar)
–––, 2017. “On the Strength of the Reason Against Harming,” Journal of Moral Philosophy, 14: 73–87. (Scholar)
Glover, J., 2006. Choosing Children: The Ethical Dilemmas of Genetic Intervention, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Gosseries, A., 2001. “What Do We Owe the Next Generation(s)?” Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, 35(1): 293–354. (Scholar)
–––, and L. Meyer, 2009. Intergenerational Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Greene, M., 2015. “Roberts on Depletion: How Much Better Can We Do for Future People?” Utilitas, 28(1): 108–118. (Scholar)
Hanser, M., 1990. “Harming Future People,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 19: 47–70. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Harming and Procreating,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 179–199. (Scholar)
Hare, C., 2007. “Voices from Another World: Must We Respect the Interests of People Who Do Not, and Will Never, Exist?” Ethics, 117: 498–523. (Scholar)
Harman, E., 2004. “Can We Harm and Benefit in Creating?” Philosophical Perspectives, 18: 89–113. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Harming as Causing Harm,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 137–154. (Scholar)
Herissone-Kelly, P., 2009. “Two Varieties of ‘Better-For’ Judgments,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 249–263. (Scholar)
Herstein, O.J., 2008. “Historic Injustice and the Non-Identity Problem: The Limitations of the Subsequent-Wrong Solution and Towards a New Solution,” Law and Philosophy, 27: 505–531. (Scholar)
Heyd, D., 1992. Genethics: Moral Issues in the Creation of People, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “The Intractability of the Nonidentity Problem,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 3–25. (Scholar)
Holtug, N., 2009. “Who Cares About Identity,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 71–92. (Scholar)
–––, 2010, Persons, Interests and Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Kahane, G., 2008. “Non-identity, Self-defeat, and Attitudes to Future Children,” Philosophical Studies, 145: 193–214. (Scholar)
Kamm, F.M., 2002. “Genes, Justice, and Obligations to Future People,” Social Philosophy and Policy, 19: 350–88. (Scholar)
Kavka, G., 1981. “The Paradox of Future Individuals,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 11: 93–112. (Scholar)
Klocksiem, J., 2012. “A Defense of the Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 49(4): 285–300. (Scholar)
Kumar, R., 2003. “Who Can Be Wronged?” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 31(2): 99–118. (Scholar)
–––, 2018. “Risking Future Generations,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 21(2): 245–257. (Scholar)
Levy, N., 2002. “The Apology Paradox and the Non-identity Problem,” The Philosophical Quarterly, 52(208): 358–68. (Scholar)
Liao, M. and O’Neil (eds.), 2017. Current Controversies in Bioethics, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Liberto, H., 2013. “The Exploitation Solution to the Non-Identity Problem,” Philosophical Studies, 167: 73–88. (Scholar)
Lillehammer, H., 2009. “Reproduction, Partiality, and the Non-Identity Problem,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.), pp. 231–248. (Scholar)
McMahan, J., 1981. “Problems of Population Choice,” Ethics, 92(1): 96–127. (Scholar)
–––, 2006. “Paradoxes of Abortion and Prenatal Injury,” Ethics, 116: 625–55. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Asymmetries in the Morality of Causing People to Exist,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 49–68. (Scholar)
Meacham, C., 2012. “Person-Affecting View and Saturating Counterpart Relations,” Philosophical Studies, 158: 257–287. (Scholar)
Meyer, K., 2018. “The Claims of Future Persons,” Erkenntnis, 83: 43–59. (Scholar)
Meyer, L., 2004. “Historical Injustice and the Right of Return,” Theoretical Inquiries in Law, 5(2): 305–316. (Scholar)
Meyer, L and D. Roser, 2009. “Enough for the Future,” in A. Gosseries and L. Meyer (eds.), pp. 219–248. (Scholar)
Mulgan, T., 2006. Future People: A Moderate Consequentialist Account of Our Obligations to Future Generations, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Narveson, J., 1976. “Moral Problems of Population,” in Bayles (ed.), pp. 59–80. (Scholar)
Parfit, D., 1976. “On Doing the Best for Our Children,” in Bayles (ed.), pp. 100–115. (Scholar)
–––, 1982. “Future Generations: Further Problems,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 11: 113–72. (Scholar)
–––, 1986. “Comments,” Ethics, 96: 854–62. (Scholar)
–––, 1987. Reasons and Persons, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2011. On What Matters (volumes 1 and 2), Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2017. “Future People, the Non-Identity Problem, and Person-Affecting Principles,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 45(2): 118–157. (Scholar)
Parsons, J., 2003. “Why the Handicapped Child Case Is Hard,” Philosophical Studies, 112: 147–162. (Scholar)
Persson, I., 2009. “Rights and the Asymmetry Between Creating Good and Bad Lives,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 29–47. (Scholar)
Peters, P., 2004. How Safe Is Safe Enough? Obligations to the Children of Reproductive Technology, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “Implications of the Nonidentity Problem for State Regulation of Reproductive Liberty,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 317–331. (Scholar)
Rachels, S., 1998. “Is It Good to Make Happy People,” Bioethics, 12(2): 93–110. (Scholar)
Reiman, J., 2007. “Being Fair to Future People: The Non-Identity Problem in the Original Position,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 35(1): 71–92. (Scholar)
Rivera-Lopez, E., 2009. “Individual Procreative Responsibility and the Non-Identity Problem,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 90: 99–118. (Scholar)
Roberts, M., 1998. Child Versus Childmaker: Future Persons and Present Duties in Ethics and the Law, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Scholar)
–––, 2002. “A New Way of Doing the Best That We Can: Person-Based Consequentialism and the Equality Problem,” Ethics, 112(2): 315–50. (Scholar)
–––, 2007. “The Nonidentity Fallacy: Harm, Probability and Another Look at Parfit’s Depletion Example,” Utilitas, 9: 267–311. (Scholar)
–––, 2008. “What is the Wrong of Wrongful Disability? From Chance to Choice to Harm to Persons,” Law and Philosophy, 28(1): 1–57. (Scholar)
–––, 2009. “The Nonidentity Problem and the Two Envelope Problem: When Is One Act Better for a Person than Another?” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 201–228. (Scholar)
–––, 2010. Abortion and the Moral Significance of Merely Possible People: Finding Middle Ground in Hard Cases, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
–––, 2011a. “The Asymmetry: A Solution,” Theoria, 77: 333–367. (Scholar)
–––, 2011b. “An Asymmetry in the Ethics of Procreation,” Philosophy Compass, 6(11): 765–776. (Scholar)
Roberts, M. and D. Wasserman (eds.), 2009. Harming Future Persons: Ethics, Genetics and the Nonidentity Problem, Dordrecht: Springer. (Scholar)
––– and D. Wasserman, 2017. “Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem,” in M. Liao and C. O‘Neil (eds.), pp. 81–98. (Scholar)
Robertson, J. A., 1994. Children of Choice: Freedom and the New Reproductive Technologies, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 2004. “Procreative Liberty and Harm to Offspring in Assisted Reproduction,” American Journal of Law and Medicine, 30: 7–40. (Scholar)
Savulescu, J. 2001. “Procreative Beneficence: Why We Should Select the Best Children,” Bioethics, 15(5/6): –413. (Scholar)
Scanlon, T., 2000. What We Owe to Each Other, revised edition, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
Schwartz, T., 1978. “Obligations to Posterity,” in Obligations to Future Generations, R. Sikora and B. Barry (eds.), Philadelphia: Temple University Press, pp. 3–13. (Scholar)
Sher, G., 2005. “Transgenerational Compensation,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 33: 181–200. (Scholar)
Shiffrin, S., 1999. “Wrongful Life, Procreative Responsibility, and the Significance of Harm,” Legal Theory, 5: 117–48. (Scholar)
Sikora, R. and B. Barry (eds.), 1978. Obligations to Future Generations, Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (Scholar)
Singer, P., 2011. Practical Ethics, 3^rd ed. Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
Smilansky, S., 2013. “Morally, Should We Prefer Never to Have Existed?” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(4): 655–666. (Scholar)
–––, 2017. “The Nonidentity Problem: United and Unconquered,” in Current Controversies in Bioethics, Matthew Liao and Collin O’Neil (eds.), London: Routledge, pp. 99–111. (Scholar)
Smolkin, D., 1999. “Toward a Rights-Based Solution to the Non-Identity Problem,” Journal of Social Philosophy, 30: 195–96. (Scholar)
Steinbock, B., 2009. “Wrongful Life and Procreative Decisions,” in M. Roberts and D. Wasserman (eds.) 2009, pp. 155–178. (Scholar)
–––, and R. McClamrock, 1994. “When Is Birth Unfair to the Child?” Hastings Center Report, 24: 15–21. (Scholar)
Temkin, L., 2012. Rethinking the Good: Moral Ideals and the Nature of Practical Reasoning, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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Velleman, J. David, 2008. “Persons in Prospect,” Philosophy & Public Affairs, 36: 221–288. (Scholar)
Wasserman, D., 2005. “The Nonidentity Problem, Disability, and the Role Morality of Prospective Parents,” Ethics, 116: 132–52. (Scholar)
–––, 2008. “Hare on De Dicto Betterness and Prospective Parents,” Ethics, 118(3): 529–33. (Scholar)
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––– and M. Roberts, 2017. “Dividing and Conquering the Nonidentity Problem,” in Current Controversies in Bioethics, M. Liao and C. O’Neil (eds.), pp. 81–98. (Scholar)
Weinberg, R., 2008. “Identifying and Dissolving the Non-Identity Problem,” Philosophical Studies, 137(1): 3–18. (Scholar)
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Wrigley, A. 2012, “Harm to Future Persons: Non-Identity Problems and Counterpart Solutions,” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 15: 175–190. (Scholar)

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