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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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72Ethics, 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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92Disgust, 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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54Should 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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299Why 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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29IntroductionRoyal 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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18Genetic Enhancement and Procreative Autonomy (review)Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology 1 (1). 2008.
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76Children, 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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7Pathologien des Sozialen: die Aufgaben der Sozialphilosophie (edited book)Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 1994.
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186The 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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117Freedom 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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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty