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Archard

Professor David Archard

Contact Details

Room 026.03.003
email: d.archard@qub.ac.uk

Member of http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/CentreforChildrensRights/

Teaching Areas

Philosophy and the Good Life; Moral Theories; Philosophy of Law; Applied Ethics
 
Research Interests

Applied Ethics (especially Children, Family and the State); Philosophy and Public Policy; Moral and Legal Philosophy (especially conceptions of responsibility, agency and embodiment)

Recent/Selected Publications  

  • Procreation and Parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing  co-edited with David Benatar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
  • The Family: A Liberal Defence (Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011)
  • 'Moral Compromise,' Philosophy 87:3 (July 2012): 403-420
  • 'Informed Consent: Autonomy and Self- Ownership,' Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (2008): 19–34