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    Introduction
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (3): 217-218. 2009.
    No Abstract
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    The morality of embryo use - by Louis M. Guenin
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2): 212-214. 2009.
    No Abstract
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    The Marxist Ethic of Self-realization: Individuality and Community
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 22 19-34. 1987.
    If, for Marx and Marxists, communism would be the most ideal of human societies, this is because it would make possible the maximum use of human and natural resources to the equal benefit of all. This means that, under communism, human beings would ‘realize themselves’. In direct and pointed contrast to capitalism wherein all individuals lead alienated, stunted, and fragmented lives, communism for Marx would provide the preconditions for a flowering, a full and final development of all human pot…Read more
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    Philosophizing About Sex
    Philosophical Quarterly 66 (264): 629-631. 2016.
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Erik A. Anderson, Marcus Arvan, Linda Barclay, Marcia Baron, Daniel Bar-Tal, Debra Bergoffen, and Alyssa Bernstein
    Journal of Social Philosophy 42 (4): 341-345. 2011.
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    Children
    In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2005.
    Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life. It has never been more topical than now as the assumed rights of parents over their children is challenged on an almost daily basis. David Archard offers the first serious and sustained philosophical examination of children and their rights. Archard reviews arguments for and against according children rights. He concludes that every child has at least the right to the best possible upbri…Read more
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    Getting it Right about Parenthood
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (2): 350-352. 2018.
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    Freedom not to be free
    Philosophical Quarterly 40 (161): 453. 1990.
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    Child Abuse: parental rights and the interests of the child
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 7 (2): 183-194. 1990.
    I criticise the ‘liberal’view of the proper relationship between the family and State, namely that, although the interests of the child should be paramount, parents are entitled to rights of both privacy and autonomy which should be abrogated only when the child suffers a specifiable harm. I argue that the right to bear children is not absolute, and that it only grounds a right to rear upon an objectionable proprietarian picture of the child as owned by its producer. If natural parents have any …Read more
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    Philosophical Advice
    Philosophy 96 (4): 603-623. 2021.
    Philosophers who publish articles that make practical ethical recommendations are thereby offering advice. I consider what obligations they incur in advising. I analyse the giving of advice as a communicative act whose defining and characteristic aim is to secure acceptance of what is advised. Such advice need not be solicited or taken up. I distinguish advice from incitement and threats and specify the scope of the adviser's responsibility for others acting upon the advice. I explore how advice…Read more
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    Apply within
    The Philosophers' Magazine 39 (39): 50-52. 2007.
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    Should Nationalists be Communitarians?
    Journal of Applied Philosophy 13 (2): 215-220. 1996.
    John O'Neill argues in a recent article, ‘Should Communitarians be Nationalists?’, that communitarians are wrong to be committed to the defence of ties of nationhood, both because the nation‐state's rise is associated with the disappearance of the ties of community and because the nation is an illusory community. I argue that the evidence that communitarianism is committed as charged to the defence of nationality is unconvincing. Further, the familiar accusation that the nation is a false or unr…Read more
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    Recognition of Reviewers
    with Anita Allen, Andrew Altman, Erik A. Anderson, Faith Armitage, Gustaf Arrhenius, Marcus Arvan, Michael Bacon, Daniel Bar-Tal, and Paul Benson
    Journal of Social Philosophy 41 (4): 399-402. 2010.
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    The Child’s Right to a Voice
    Res Publica (4): 1-16. 2020.
    This article provides a philosophical analysis of a putative right of the child to have their expressed views considered in matters that affect them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is an influential and interesting statement of that right. The article shows that the child’s ‘right to a voice’ is complex. Its complexity lies in the problem of contrasting an adult’s normative power of choice with a child’s weighted views, in the various senses in which …Read more
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    One Body but Many Kinds of Sex and Procreation: A Liberal Response
    Roczniki Filozoficzne 63 (3): 75-85. 2015.
    I contrast a liberal and a conservative approach to the morality of sex, endorsing the former with a concession as to the special nature of sex, and note Pruss’ philosophical and theological endorsement of the latter. I criticize his argumentative strategy in three regards: first, he defends Christian love as equivalent to benevolence; second, he allows for only a moral evaluation of sex; third, he moves too quickly from some factual claims to others, and thence to normative conclusions. His acc…Read more
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    Consider the following examples of behavior by Smith: 1. Smith, seated at her restaurant table, gives an order to the waiter; 2. Smith gets into a cab and names a destination; 3. Smith agrees to Jones's suggestion that they go back to Jones's apartment for a few drinks; 4. Smith casts her vote in some election. In each of these instances what can Smith be understood as consenting to? Is she consenting to pay the bill for whatever meal she orders; pay the fare for the journey to her named destina…Read more
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    Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues
    Journal of Philosophy of Education 56 (5): 645-653. 2022.
    I offer an account of sexual ethics, and thus of an education in sexual morality, that tries to make some sense of how a view of consent as central to those ethics might be combined with an education in certain virtues. I do so by exploring what some see as the shortcomings of a standard of consent, namely, how it can deal with instances of prima facie bad sex. I consider and reject various attempts to show that consensuality is sufficient for morally good sex. I then show how a needed supplemen…Read more
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    Introduction
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 40 1-5. 1996.
    As befits a volume devoted to the topic of pluralism the contributing pieces collected here are varied. Their concern is with very different kinds of difference, and their conclusions range from an insistence that pluralism is both inevitable and desirable to a belief that it is unsustainable and perhaps remediable. The starting point for any discussion of pluralism is a recognition that we inhabit a world of differences. These differences are exhibited in moral outlooks, cultural identities, wa…Read more
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    Just rules?
    Res Publica 7 (2): 207-215. 2001.
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    Democratic Individuality (review)
    Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 33 356-358. 1991.
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    Membership and Justice
    Theoria 49 (99): 7-25. 2002.
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    Liberalism and the Defence of Political Constructivism
    Contemporary Political Theory 3 (1): 115-117. 2004.