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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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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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The Erosion of Childhood, Child Oppression in Britain 1860-1918 (review)Radical Philosophy 62. 1992.
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59. JUSTICE David ArchardIn Guillaume de Stexhe & Johan Verstraeten (eds.), Matter of Breath: Foundations for Professional Ethics, Peeters. pp. 3--147. 2000.
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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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13Philosophy and PluralismCambridge University Press. 1996.We inhabit a world of differences - cultural, religious, moral, philosophical. The question that preoccupies the contributors to this volume is whether the fact of difference - plurality - inevitably leads to the conclusion that there cannot be a single truth, even in moral matters. As befits a volume on pluralism, it brings together a wide variety of contributors with different backgrounds and distinctive skills and attitudes. The implications of plurality are examined with regard to religion, …Read more
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Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr. and Jeffrey Paul, eds, Cultural Pluralism and Moral KnowledgeRadical Philosophy. forthcoming.
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132Dirty Hands and the Complicity of the Democratic PublicEthical Theory and Moral Practice 16 (4): 777-790. 2013.The alleged problem of the dirty hands of politicians has been much discussed since Michael Walzer’s original piece (Walzer 1974). The discussion has concerned the precise nature of the problem or sought to dissolve the apparent paradox. However there has been little discussion of the putative complicity, and thus also dirtying of hands, of a democratic public that authorizes politicians to act in its name. This article outlines the sense in which politicians do get dirty hands and the degree to…Read more
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334Insults, Free Speech and OffensivenessJournal of Applied Philosophy 31 (2): 127-141. 2013.This article examines what is wrong with some expressive acts, ‘insults’. Their putative wrongfulness is distinguished from the causing of indirect harms, aggregated harms, contextual harms, and damaging misrepresentations. The article clarifies what insults are, making use of work by Neu and Austin, and argues that their wrongfulness cannot lie in the hurt that is caused to those at whom such acts are directed. Rather it must lie in what they seek to do, namely to denigrate the other. The causi…Read more
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355Children: Rights and ChildhoodRoutledge. 1993.Whether children have rights is a debate that in recent years has spilled over into all areas of public life. It has never been more topical than now as the assumed rights of parents over their children is challenged on an almost daily basis. David Archard offers the first serious and sustained philosophical examination of children and their rights. Archard reviews arguments for and against according children rights. He concludes that every child has at least the right to the best possible upbri…Read more
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304Sexual consent (review)In Peter Schaber & Andreas Müller (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, Routledge. pp. 643-644. 2018.
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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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19Reviews Cultural Identity and Political Ethics. By Paul Gilbert. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780748623884, pb. £19.99 (review)Philosophy 86 (4): 627-631. 2011.
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Liberals and Communitarians; Liberalism and Modern Society: an Historical Argument (review)Radical Philosophy 64. 1993.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRetired faculty