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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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136Wrongful lifePhilosophy 79 (3): 403-420. 2004.I argue that it is wrong deliberately to bring into existence an individual whose life we can reasonably expect will be of very poor quality. The individual's life would on balance be worth living but would nevertheless fall below a certain threshold. Additionally the prospective parents are unable to have any other child who would enjoy a better existence. Against the claims of John Harris and John Robertson I argue that deliberately to conceive such a child would not be to exercise the right t…Read more
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25Liberalism 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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7The obligations and responsibilities of parenthoodIn David Archard & David Benatar (eds.), Procreation and parenthood: the ethics of bearing and rearing children, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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The Erosion of Childhood, Child Oppression in Britain 1860-1918 (review)Radical Philosophy 62. 1992.
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13Philosophy 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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214The 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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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, eds, Cultural Pluralism and Moral KnowledgeRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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22Negotiating Diversity: Liberalism, Democracy and Cultural DifferenceContemporary Political Theory 6 (4): 496-497. 2007.
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59. 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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133Dirty Hands and the Complicity of the Democratic PublicEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4): 777-790. 2013.The alleged problem of the dirty hands of politicians has been much discussed since Michael Walzer’s original piece (Walzer 1974). The discussion has concerned the precise nature of the problem or sought to dissolve the apparent paradox. However there has been little discussion of the putative complicity, and thus also dirtying of hands, of a democratic public that authorizes politicians to act in its name. This article outlines the sense in which politicians do get dirty hands and the degree to…Read more
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335Insults, 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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355Children: Rights and ChildhoodRoutledge. 1993.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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307Sexual 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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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty