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312Why moral philosophers are not and should not be moral expertsBioethics 25 (3): 119-127. 2011.Professional philosophers are members of bioethical committees and regulatory bodies in areas of interest to bioethicists. This suggests they possess moral expertise even if they do not exercise it directly and without constraint. Moral expertise is defined, and four arguments given in support of scepticism about their possession of such expertise are considered and rejected: the existence of extreme disagreement between moral philosophers about moral matters; the lack of a means clearly to iden…Read more
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1Cultural Pluralism and Moral Knowledge; Explaining Political Disagreement (review)Radical Philosophy 74. 1995.
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Rosen, M.-On Voluntary Servitude, False Consciousness and the Theory of IdeologyPhilosophical Books 38 276-278. 1997.
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The Erosion of Childhood, Child Oppression in Britain 1860-1918 (review)Radical Philosophy 62. 1992.
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194The moral and political status of childrenPhilosophical Quarterly 54 (216): 490-492. 2004.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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18Liberalism and the Defence of Political ConstructivismContemporary Political Theory 3 (1): 115-117. 2004.
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Constitutionalism and Democracy; Debating the Constitution; Associative Democracy; Common Sense: A New Constitution for Britain (review)Radical Philosophy 71. 1995.
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12Pathologien des Sozialen: die Aufgaben der Sozialphilosophie (edited book)Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1994.
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69. JUSTICE David ArchardIn Guillaume de Stexhe & Johan Verstraeten (eds.), Matter of breath: foundations for professional ethics, Peeters. pp. 3--147. 2000.
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204Child Abuse: parental rights and the interests of the childJournal 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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10Philosophy and PluralismCambridge University Press. 1996.We inhabit a world of differences - cultural, religious, moral, philosophical. The question that preoccupies the contributors to this volume is whether the fact of difference - plurality - inevitably leads to the conclusion that there cannot be a single truth, even in moral matters. As befits a volume on pluralism, it brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills and attitudes. The implications of plurality are examined with regard to religion, …Read more
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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, eds, Cultural Pluralism and Moral KnowledgeRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty