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378The wrong of rapePhilosophical Quarterly 57 (228). 2007.If rape is evaluated as a serious wrong, can it also be defined as non-consensual sex (NCS)? Many do not see all instances of NCS as seriously wrongful. I argue that rape is both properly defined as NCS and properly evaluated as a serious wrong. First, I distinguish the hurtfulness of rape from its wrongfulness; secondly, I classify its harms and characterize its essential wrongfulness; thirdly, I criticize a view of rape as merely ‘sex minus consent’; fourthly, I criticize mistaken attempts to …Read more
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34IntroductionRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 40 1-5. 1996.As befits a volume devoted to the topic of pluralism the contributing pieces collected here are varied. Their concern is with very different kinds of difference, and their conclusions range from an insistence that pluralism is both inevitable and desirable to a belief that it is unsustainable and perhaps remediable. The starting point for any discussion of pluralism is a recognition that we inhabit a world of differences. These differences are exhibited in moral outlooks, cultural identities, wa…Read more
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74The Moral and Political Status of Children (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2002.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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78Children, Family and the StateRoutledge. 2003.This title was first published in 2003. This book critically examines the moral and political status of the child by a consideration of three interrelated questions: What rights if any does the child have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child do parents have? What rights over and duties in respect of a child does the state have? David Archard adopts three areas for particular discussion on the practical implications of the general theoretical issues: education, child protection poli…Read more
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Realistic Holism: A Reply to CoadyAustralian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics 7 (2). 2005.
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59Letting babies dieJournal of Medical Ethics 33 (3): 125-126. 2007.Prolonging neonatal lifeThe paradox that medicine’s success breeds medicine’s problems is well known to readers of the Journal of Medical Ethics. Advances in neonatal medicine have worked wonders. Not long ago, extremely premature birth babies, or those born with very serious health problems, would inevitably have died. Today, neonatologists can resuscitate babies born at ever-earlier stages of gestation. And very ill babies also benefit from advances in neonatal intensive care. Infant lives can…Read more
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21Genetic Enhancement and Procreative Autonomy (review)Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 1 (1). 2008.
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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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119Freedom not to be free: The case of the slavery contract in J. S. mill's on libertyPhilosophical Quarterly 40 (161): 453-465. 1990.
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129Should We Teach Patriotism?Studies in Philosophy and Education 18 (3): 157-173. 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
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Just between ourselves+ new books on justiceInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 4 (1): 128-138. 1996.
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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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203Informed consent: Autonomy and self-ownershipJournal of Applied Philosophy 25 (1). 2008.Using the example of an unconsented mouth swab I criticise the view that an action of this kind taken in itself is wrongful in respect of its being a violation of autonomy. This is so much inasmuch as autonomy merits respect only with regard to ‘critical life choices’. I consider the view that such an action is nevertheless harmful or risks serious harm. I also respond to two possible suggestions: that the action is of a kind that violates autonomy; and, that the class of such actions violates a…Read more
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1Michael Freeden, Ideologies and Political Theory: A Conceptual ApproachRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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22The Non‐Identity Problem and the Ethics of Future People by David Boonin, 2014 Oxford, Oxford University Press320 pp., £45.00 (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 33 (1): 110-112. 2016.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty