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23Negotiating Diversity: Liberalism, Democracy and Cultural DifferenceContemporary Political Theory 6 (4): 496-497. 2007.
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86Hearing the child. 2009.Given that in our view the child has a fundamental right to be heard in all collective deliberative processes determining his or her future, we set out, firstly, what is required of such processes to respect this right – namely that the child's authentic voice is heard and makes a difference – and, secondly, the distance between this ideal and practice exemplified in the work of child welfare and child protection workers in Norway and the UK, chiefly in their display of an instrumental attitude …Read more
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78Children: Rights and Childhood (3rd ed.)Routledge. 2014.Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication. The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with a new chapter providing an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Part 2 has been restructured to mo…Read more
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Rape: A Philosophical Investigation; Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial (review)Radical Philosophy 81. 1997.
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99The Future of the FamilyEthics and Social Welfare 6 (2): 132-142. 2012.Much is said about the decline of the family, often in connection with the prevalence of certain social problems. In this article I consider two kinds of fear: (i) that the traditional family is disappearing; (ii) that new forms of family emerging are, in some or other respect, not worthy of the title. In themselves, neither fear, I argue, should give rise to pressing ethical concerns as such. On fear (i): if by ?traditional family? we mean one whose adult members are heterosexuals, normally mar…Read more
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83Marxism and existentialism: the political philosophy of Sartre and Merleau-PontyBlackstaff Press. 1980.This book undertakes a systematic comparative analysis of the political philosophies of Sartre and mealeau-Ponty between 1929 and 1960. It critically explores their pre-war discovery of Husserl, Hegel and Heidegger; It records the impact of the second world war and the subsequent founding of Les Temps Modernes. It also reviews their post-war writing, both journalistic and philosophical. Their eventual divergence of views is hows as developing, against the background of world events, from their i…Read more
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813. Family LawIn Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 169-178. 2016.
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133What's blood got to do with it? The significance of natural parenthoodRes Publica 1 (1): 91-106. 1995.
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30Democratic procedures and liberal consensus by George Klosko oxford university press, 2000, £27.50Philosophy 75 (4): 613-626. 2000.
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40The Marxist Ethic of Self-realization: Individuality and CommunityRoyal 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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29“A Nod's as Good as a Wink”: Consent, Convention, and Reasonable Belief: David ArchardLegal Theory 3 (3): 273-290. 1997.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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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty