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312Freedom Not to be Free: The Case of the Slavery Contract in J. S. Mill's on LibertyPhilosophical Quarterly 40 (161): 453-465. 1990.
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102The morality of embryo use - by Louis M. GueninJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (2): 212-214. 2009.No Abstract.
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27JUSTICE David ArchardIn Guillaume de Stexhe & Johan Verstraeten (eds.), Matter of breath: foundations for professional ethics, Peeters. pp. 3--147. 2000.
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126Letting babies dieJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (3): 125-126. 2007.Prolonging neonatal lifeThe paradox that medicine’s success breeds medicine’s problems is well known to readers of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Advances in neonatal medicine have worked wonders. Not long ago, extremely premature birth babies, or those born with very serious health problems, would inevitably have died. Today, neonatologists can resuscitate babies born at ever-earlier stages of gestation. And very ill babies also benefit from advances in neonatal intensive care. Infant lives can…Read more
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137Political Disagreement, Legitimacy, and CivilityPhilosophical Explorations 4 (3): 207-222. 2001.For many contemporary liberal political philosophers the appropriate response to the facts of pluralism is the requirement of public reasonableness, namely that individuals should be able to offer to their fellow citizens reasons for their political actions that can generally be accepted.This article finds wanting two possible arguments for such a requirement: one from a liberal principle of legitimacy and the other from a natural duty of political civility. A respect in which conversational res…Read more
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101Democratic procedures and liberal consensus by George Klosko oxford university press, 2000, £27.50Philosophy 75 (4): 613-626. 2000.
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128Contested Commodities: The trouble with Trade in Sex, Children, Body Parts, and Other Things, Margaret Jane Radin. Harvard University Press, 1996, xiv + 279 pages (review)Economics and Philosophy 14 (2): 362. 1998.
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375Procreation and parenthood: the ethics of bearing and rearing children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Procreation and Parenthood offers new and original essays by leading philosophers on some of the main ethical issues raised by these activities.
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102Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction – By Stephen WilkinsonJournal of Applied Philosophy 28 (1): 101-104. 2011.
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475Insults, Free Speech and OffensivenessJournal of Applied Philosophy 31 (2): 127-141. 2013.This article examines what is wrong with some expressive acts, ‘insults’. Their putative wrongfulness is distinguished from the causing of indirect harms, aggregated harms, contextual harms, and damaging misrepresentations. The article clarifies what insults are, making use of work by Neu and Austin, and argues that their wrongfulness cannot lie in the hurt that is caused to those at whom such acts are directed. Rather it must lie in what they seek to do, namely to denigrate the other. The causi…Read more
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35Nationalism and PatriotismIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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142Children, family and the stateAshgate. 2003.This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does the child have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child do parents have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child does the state have? David Archard adopts three areas for particular discussion on the practical implications of the general theoretical issues: education, child protection poli…Read more
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552The wrong of rapePhilosophical Quarterly 57 (228): 374-393. 2007.If rape is evaluated as a serious wrong, can it also be defined as non-consensual sex (NCS)? Many do not see all instances of NCS as seriously wrongful. I argue that rape is both properly defined as NCS and properly evaluated as a serious wrong. First, I distinguish the hurtfulness of rape from its wrongfulness; secondly, I classify its harms and characterize its essential wrongfulness; thirdly, I criticize a view of rape as merely ‘sex minus consent’; fourthly, I criticize mistaken attempts to …Read more
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378Sexual consent (review)In Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. pp. 643-644. 2018.
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Liberals and Communitarians; Liberalism and Modern Society: an Historical Argument (review)Radical Philosophy 64. 1993.
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Rape: A Philosophical Investigation; Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial (review)Radical Philosophy 81. 1997.
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516The Moral and Political Status of Children: New EssaysPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 490-492. 2002.The book contains original essays by distinguished moral and political philosophers on the topic of the moral and political status of children. It covers the themes of children's rights, parental rights and duties, the family and justice, and civic education.
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92Should 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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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty