David Archard

Biographic Data

ID968424
NAMEDavid Archard
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEArchard
SIGNATUREARCHARD D
AFFILIATIONSLancaster University
ORCID0000-0001-7059-8907
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS154
AUTHOR COUNT57
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX6

  • The WHO has ratified pandemic agreement: But what will it take to ensure equitable response for future pandemics?

    Open AccessMarija Antanavičiūtė, David Archard et al.ARTICLEGlobal Bioethics2026

    On 20 May 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted the Pandemic Agreement at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. After nearly three years of negotiations and after failing to adopt it in 2024, this is a decisive step towards more combined efforts to address future pandemics. The final text of the treaty highlights the need for equitable access to pandemic-related health products and aims to improve the ability of international health re…

  • Mary Warnock and ‘Public Philosophy’

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEJournal of Applied Philosophy2024

    This article responds to the familiar characterisation of Mary Warnock as someone whose major achievements as a public intellectual, such as the Report on human fertilisation and embryology, were at the expense of philosophical rigour and integrity. I explicate her lifelong commitment to practical morality, and her understanding of ethics and of the role of feelings in moral judgments, before analysing her important distinction between the privat…

  • Involving parents in paediatric clinical ethics committee deliberations: A current controversy

    David Archard, Emma Cave et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2023

    In cases where the best interests of the child are disputed or finely balanced, Clinical Ethics Committees (CECs) can provide a valuable source of advice to clinicians and trusts on the pertinent ethical dimensions. Recent judicial cases have criticised the lack of formalised guidance and inconsistency in the involvement of parents in CEC deliberations. In Manchester University NHS FT v Verden [2022], Arbuthnot J set out important procedural guid…

  • Clinical ethics support services during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: A cross-sectional survey

    Open AccessMariana Dittborn, Emma Cave et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2022

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for clinical ethics support provision to ensure as far as possible fair decision making and to address healthcare workers' moral distress. PURPOSE: To describe the availability, characteristics and role of clinical ethics support services (CESSs) in the UK during the COVID-19 pandemic. METHOD: A descriptive cross-sectional online survey was developed by the research team. The survey included …

  • Teaching good sex: The limits of consent and the role of the virtues

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEJournal of Philosophy of Education2022Cited by: 2References: 1

    I offer an account of sexual ethics, and thus of an education in sexual morality, that tries to make some sense of how a view of consent as central to those ethics might be combined with an education in certain virtues. I do so by exploring what some see as the shortcomings of a standard of consent, namely, how it can deal with instances of prima facie bad sex. I consider and reject various attempts to show that consensuality is sufficient for mo…

  • Challenging misconceptions about clinical ethics support during Covid-19 and beyond: A legal update and future considerations

    Open AccessJoe Brierley, David Archard et al.ARTICLEJournal of Medical Ethics2021

    The pace of change and, indeed, the sheer number of clinical ethics committees (not to be confused with research ethics committees) has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Committees were formed to support healthcare professionals and to operationalise, interpret and compensate for gaps in national and professional guidance. But as the role of clinical ethics support becomes more prominent and visible, it becomes ever more important to addr…

  • Philosophical Advice

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEPhilosophy2021

    Philosophers who publish articles that make practical ethical recommendations are thereby offering advice. I consider what obligations they incur in advising. I analyse the giving of advice as a communicative act whose defining and characteristic aim is to secure acceptance of what is advised. Such advice need not be solicited or taken up. I distinguish advice from incitement and threats and specify the scope of the adviser's responsibility for o…

  • The Child’s Right to a Voice

    Open AccessDavid Archard, Suzanne UniackeARTICLERes Publica. Revista de Historia…2020Cited by: 2References: 1

    This article provides a philosophical analysis of a putative right of the child to have their expressed views considered in matters that affect them. Article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 is an influential and interesting statement of that right. The article shows that the child’s ‘right to a voice’ is complex. Its complexity lies in the problem of contrasting an adult’s normative power of choice with a child…

  • Family and Family Law

    David ArchardBOOKPhilosophical Foundations of…2018

    Much contemporary writing on ‘family’ and ’family law’ cites extensive changes to the family as evidence that the very concept of the ‘family’ is redundant, or that the family has disappeared. Conceptual questions (What counts as a family?) should be distinguished from normative ones (Is the family a good thing? Are some families better than others?). The use of the term ‘the family’ can be normatively innocent such that there are different famil…

  • Parental power, children’s rights, and normative theory

    David ArchardARTICLEJournal of Political Power2018References: 1

    Few political philosophers read the First Treatise of John Locke’s Two treatises of government; fewer still read the critical target of that Treatise, Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha. Locke’s status

  • Philosophizing About Sex

    David ArchardARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2016

    Journal Article Philosophizing About Sex Get access Philosophizing About Sex.BySchrage B. Laurie J. and Stewart Robert Scott. (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2015. Pp. x + 284. Price £27.95.) David Archard David Archard Queen's University Belfast, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 264, July 2016, Pages 629–631, https://doi.org/1…

  • The ethics of patriotism

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEContemporary Political Theory2016Cited by: 1

  • Children, Adults, Autonomy and Well-Being

    Open AccessDavid ArchardCHAPTERNature of Children's Well-Being2015

  • Children's Rights

    Open AccessDavid ArchardCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of…2013

    Any discussion of children's rights must ask whether children do have rights and, if they do, what rights they have. It should at the outset acknowledge the basic distinction between moral and legal or positive rights ( see Rights). The latter are those rights which, as a matter of fact, have been accorded to persons in law or by existing institutional rules; the former are those rights whose ascription to individuals can be morally justified. Cl…

  • Dirty Hands and the Complicity of the Democratic Public

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEEthical Theory and Moral Practice2013

  • Reading Onora O'Neill

    Neil C Manson, David Archard et al.BOOKReading Onora O'Neill2013

    Onora O'Neill is one of the foremost moral philosophers writing today. Her work on ethics and bioethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of Kant is extremely influential. Her landmark Reith Lectures on trust did much to establish the subject not only on the philosophical and political agenda but in the world of media, business and law more widely. Reading Onora O'Neill. Is the first book to examine and critically appraise the work of this…

  • Reading Onora O'Neill

    David Archard, Monique Deveaux et al.BOOKReading Onora O'Neill2013

  • The Future of the Family

    David ArchardARTICLEEthics and Social Welfare2012Cited by: 1References: 2

    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 w…

  • Assisted Dying and Legal Change - Penney Lewis: Book Reviews

    David ArchardARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2011

    Applied moral philosophers might and do address the question whether or not it is morally permissible for doctors to assist their patients to die. They do so by considering whether or not there is a duty to keep alive those whose continued existence is intolerably undignified, painful or distressing, and who, moreover, have repeatedly expressed a clear wish to die. If the question is settled in favour of allowing doctors to assist death in such c…

  • Procreation and Parenthood

    David Archard, David BenatarBOOKProcreation and parenthood2010

    Producing and rearing children are immensely important human activities. This collection offers new and original essays by leading philosophers on some of the main ethical issues raised by these activities.

  • Procreation and parenthood: The Ethics of Bearing and Rearing Children

    David ArchardBOOKProcreation and parenthood2010

    Seven essays on some of the main ethical issues raised by producing and rearing children.

  • The Obligations and Responsibilities of Parenthood

    David ArchardCHAPTERProcreation and parenthood2010

    The chapter distinguishes between the parental obligation to ensure that the child has a parent and the responsibilities of acting as a parent. It argues that a causal theory of parental obligation—that those who cause children to exist thereby incur an obligation to ensure that they are adequately cared for—can be defended independently of a theory of parental rights, and has much to commend it. Nevertheless the causal theory must meet the diffi…

  • Deciding best interests: General principles and the cases of Norway and the UK

    David Archard, Marit SkivenesARTICLEJournal of Children s Services2010Cited by: 2References: 6

    This article addresses the difficult matter of interpreting the best interest principle, and offers advice for those who must make laws, and those who make decisions within the constraints of those laws. Our approach rests on an assumption that conclusions about best interest are best reached through a reasoned deliberative process. We suggest that legislators should not write substantive assumptions about what is best for every child into their …

  • Whose body is it anyway? Justice and the integrity of the person

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEContemporary Political Theory2010Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Messy morality, the challenge of politics

    Open AccessDavid ArchardARTICLEContemporary Political Theory2010References: 1