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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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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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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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78Children: Rights and Childhood (3rd ed.)Routledge. 2014.Children: Rights and Childhood is widely regarded as the first book to offer a detailed philosophical examination of children’s rights. David Archard provides a clear and accessible introduction to a topic that has assumed increasing relevance since the book’s first publication. The third edition has been fully revised and updated throughout with a new chapter providing an in-depth analysis of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) and Part 2 has been restructured to mo…Read more
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86Hearing the child. 2009.Given that in our view the child has a fundamental right to be heard in all collective deliberative processes determining his or her future, we set out, firstly, what is required of such processes to respect this right – namely that the child's authentic voice is heard and makes a difference – and, secondly, the distance between this ideal and practice exemplified in the work of child welfare and child protection workers in Norway and the UK, chiefly in their display of an instrumental attitude …Read more
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Rape: A Philosophical Investigation; Carnal Knowledge: Rape on Trial (review)Radical Philosophy 81. 1997.
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Review Symposium: Hiding from Humanity by Martha NussbaumJournal of Applied Philosophy 25 (4): 291-349. 2008.
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99The Future of the FamilyEthics and Social Welfare 6 (2): 132-142. 2012.Much is said about the decline of the family, often in connection with the prevalence of certain social problems. In this article I consider two kinds of fear: (i) that the traditional family is disappearing; (ii) that new forms of family emerging are, in some or other respect, not worthy of the title. In themselves, neither fear, I argue, should give rise to pressing ethical concerns as such. On fear (i): if by ?traditional family? we mean one whose adult members are heterosexuals, normally mar…Read more
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82Marxism and existentialism: the political philosophy of Sartre and Merleau-PontyBlackstaff Press. 1980.This book undertakes a systematic comparative analysis of the political philosophies of Sartre and mealeau-Ponty between 1929 and 1960. It critically explores their pre-war discovery of Husserl, Hegel and Heidegger; It records the impact of the second world war and the subsequent founding of Les Temps Modernes. It also reviews their post-war writing, both journalistic and philosophical. Their eventual divergence of views is hows as developing, against the background of world events, from their i…Read more
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302Why 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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713. Family LawIn Jean-Christophe Merle (ed.), Johann Gottlieb Fichte: Grundlage des Naturrechts, De Gruyter. pp. 169-178. 2016.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty