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73Ethics, Sexual Orientation, and Choices about Children by Timothy F. Murphy, 2012 Cambridge, MA: MIT Press 200 pp, £18.95 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (2): 187-189. 2013.
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76Against Paternalism: Justifying Coercive Paternalism by Sarah Conly, 2012 Cambridge, Cambridge University Press216 pp, £55.00 (hb) (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 30 (4): 397-400. 2013.
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93Disgust, Offensiveness and the Law (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 314-321. 2008.abstract Martha Nussbaum's concern is to limit the role that emotions can legitimately play in the definition of the criminal law. She would allow nuisance laws to curtail the occasioning of disgust but only disgust of a certain kind. Problems arise for her account when she extends this analysis to the prevention of offensiveness. Unavoidable is an evaluation of those beliefs subscription to which explains the taking of offence. Hence the principal problem for a liberalism of the kind Nussbaum d…Read more
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57Privacy Rights, Moral and Legal Foundations, by Adam D. Moore. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010, 237 pp. ISBN 978‐0‐271‐03685‐4 hb £57.95; ISBN 978‐0271‐036861 pb £16.95 (review)European Journal of Philosophy 20 (2): 338-340. 2012.
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Patricia Smith Churchland, Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind/BrainRadical Philosophy 49 41. 1988.
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Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism; Socialism and the Limits of Liberalism (review)Radical Philosophy 60. 1992.
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1IntroductionIn David Archard & David Benatar (eds.), Procreation and parenthood: the ethics of bearing and rearing children, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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56Should We Teach Patriotism?/David ArchardStudies in Philosophy and Education.–Ny. 1999.This article examines a particular debate between Eamonn Callan and William Galston concerning the need for a civic education which counters the divisive pull of pluralism by uniting the citizenry in patriotic allegiance to a single national identity. The article offers a preliminary understanding of nationalism and patriotism before setting out the terms of the debate. It then critically evaluates the central idea of Callan that one might be under an obligation morally to improve one''s own pat…Read more
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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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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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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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7Whose body is it anyway? Justice and the integrity of the personContemporary Political Theory 9 (3): 345-347. 2010.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty