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33Should Nationalists be Communitarians?Journal of Applied Philosophy 13 (2): 215-220. 1996.John O'Neill argues in a recent article, ‘Should Communitarians be Nationalists?’, that communitarians are wrong to be committed to the defence of ties of nationhood, both because the nation‐state's rise is associated with the disappearance of the ties of community and because the nation is an illusory community. I argue that the evidence that communitarianism is committed as charged to the defence of nationality is unconvincing. Further, the familiar accusation that the nation is a false or unr…Read more
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83Inequality Re-examinedPhilosophical Quarterly 45 (181): 553. 1995.This book develops some of the most important themes of Sen's works over the last decade. He argues in a rich and subtle approach that we should be concerned with people's capabilities rather than their resources or welfare
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5A Brief Tribute to Stephen MillsInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 9 (4): 499-500. 2001.
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70Choosing Tomorrow's Children: The Ethics of Selective Reproduction – By Stephen WilkinsonJournal of Applied Philosophy 28 (1): 101-104. 2011.
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19Review: R. A. Duff and Stuart P. Green (eds): Defining Crimes: Essays on the Special Part of the Criminal Law (review)Mind 117 (465): 174-176. 2008.
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202Children, multiculturalism and educationIn David Archard & Colin M. Macleod (eds.), The Moral and Political Status of Children, Oxford University Press. pp. 150--158. 2002.There are three possible justifications of the claim cultural communities make for their right to transmit an identity to their children. A group strategy and a parenting strategy are both defective. More promising is the view that there is value to children in the sharing of a familial life. But parental authority is limited by the requirement that children acquire sufficient autonomy. Some multicultural policies are thus not ruled out by the recognition of the need to accommodate children's in…Read more
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174Liberalism and Prostitution * By PETER DE MARNEFFEAnalysis 70 (3): 595-597. 2010.(No abstract is available for this citation)
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41Child 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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94Political disagreement, legitimacy, and civilityPhilosophical Explorations 4 (3). 2001.For many contemporary liberal political philosophers the appropriate response to the facts of pluralism is the requirement of public reasonableness, namely that individuals should be able to offer to their fellow citizens reasons for their political actions that can generally be accepted.This article finds wanting two possible arguments for such a requirement: one from a liberal principle of legitimacy and the other from a natural duty of political civility. A respect in which conversational res…Read more
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The Dialogue of Justice; Justice by Lottery; Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Arguing for Basic Income (review)Radical Philosophy 65. 1993.
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252Procreation and parenthood: the ethics of bearing and rearing children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.Procreation and Parenthood offers new and original essays by leading philosophers on some of the main ethical issues raised by these activities.
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23The Marxist ethic of self-realization: individuality and communityIn J. D. G. Evans (ed.), Moral Philosophy and Contemporary Problems, Cambridge University Press. 1987.
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113Exploited consentJournal of Social Philosophy 25 (3): 92--101. 1994.The article considers whether a professional's sexual relations with a client are wrong, even if the client's consent is not coerced, incapacitated or manipulated, the impartial conduct of professional affairs is not interfered with, and there are no damaged third parties. It argues that consent may be ``exploited'' if it is forthcoming only due to the occupancy of respective positions within an unequal relationship whose scope excludes such intimacy. The article explains the use of the term, ex…Read more
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120Selling yourself: Titmuss's argument against a market in blood (review)The Journal of Ethics 6 (1): 87-102. 2002.This article defends Richard Titmuss''s argument, and PeterSinger''s sympathetic support for it, against orthodoxphilosophical criticism. The article specifies thesense in which a market in blood is ``dehumanising'''' ashaving to do with a loss of ``imagined community'''' orsocial ``integration'''', and not with a loss of valued or``deeper'''' liberty. It separates two ``domino arguments''''– the ``contamination of meaning'''' argument and the``erosion of motivation'''' argument which support, i…Read more
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty