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20Reviews Cultural Identity and Political Ethics. By Paul Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780748623884, pb. £19.99 (review)Philosophy 86 (4): 627-631. 2011.
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Liberals and Communitarians; Liberalism and Modern Society: an Historical Argument (review)Radical Philosophy 64. 1993.
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40ChildrenIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. 2003.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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14Political and Social PhilosophyIn Nicholas Bunnin & E. P. Tsui‐James (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction John Rawls and Robert Nozick on Justice Equality Pluralism and Neutrality Critics of Liberalism: Communitarianism, Feminism, and Analytical Marxism Individuals and Communities Political Philosophy and Politics Conclusion.
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23Filial MoralityPacific Philosophical Quarterly 77 (3): 179-192. 2017.Filial regard is the special consideration that children, even as adults, show their parents and filial morality the demonstration that such a regard is demanded of them. The three main accounts of filial morality, based upon ideas of gratitude, role obligations, and friendship, are shown to be unsatisfactory. The article explores the idea, found in traditional Chinese thinking, that filial regard is the ‘root’ of goodness, and suggests that the Chinese model has been viewed unsympathetically du…Read more
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67Applying Philosophy: A Response to O’NeillJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (3): 238-244. 2009.abstract I consider the putative originality of applied philosophy and seek to defend a version of it often called 'bottom up'. I review ways in which imagined cases may cause us to reconsider our normative commitments, and endorse a general attentiveness to the matter of how the world is and how it might reasonably be imagined. This is important if practical philosophers want to form the correct normative judgements, to be able to recognize the sui generis character of some moral theorising in …Read more
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377The wrong of rapePhilosophical Quarterly 57 (228). 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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35Nationalism and PatriotismIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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73The Moral and Political Status of Children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 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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David Copp, Jean Hampton and John E. Roemer (eds), The Idea of DemocracyRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Sebastian Gardner, Irrationality and the Philosophy of PsychoanalysisRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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56Letting 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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194. informed consent and the grounds of autonomyIn Thomas Nys, Yvonne Denier & Toon Vandevelde (eds.), Autonomy & paternalism: reflections on the theory and practice of health care, Peeters. pp. 5--113. 2007.
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94Moral CompromisePhilosophy 87 (3): 403-420. 2012.A moral compromise is a compromise on moral matters; it is agreement in the face of moral disagreement but where there is agreement on the importance of consensus -namely that it secures a morally desirable outcome. It is distinguishable from other forms of agreement, and an important distinction between moral compromise with public agreement and moral compromise with public disagreement is also made. Circumstances in which the former might be permissible are outlined, and the sense in which it …Read more
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Child Protection: An Holistic ViewAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (2). 2005.
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13Review of Lainie Friedman Ross, Children in Medical Research: Access Versus Protection (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (9). 2006.
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35Contested 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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93How should we teach sex?Journal of Philosophy of Education 32 (3). 1998.In the face of differences about how sex should be taught to young persons, and consistent with a liberal principle of neutrality, educationalists can adopt one of two strategies. The ‘retreat to basics’ consists in teaching only a basic agreed code of sexual conduct, or a set of agreed principles of sexual morality. The ‘conjunctive–disjunctive’ strategy consists in teaching the facts of sexual activity together with the various possible evaluations of these facts. Both strategies are beset wit…Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty