David Archard (born 19 January 1951) is a British

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who is

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of Philosophy at

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. He is known for his work on children and families.

Career

As an undergraduate, Archard studied philosophy at Corpus Christi,

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from 1969 to 1972, and then read for a

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at the

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from 1972 to 1976. In 1976, he took up a

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, later being promoted to senior Lecturer. In 1995, he moved to St. Andrews as a reader in moral philosophy, and, in 2003, became a

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of philosophy & public policy in 2003. He left Lancaster in 2018 and became a professor of philosophy at

. In 2018, he became emeritus professor. From 2005 to 2016, he was a member of the board of the

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. He has been the

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of the

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since 2017. Other roles Archard has undertaken over his career include editorial or management roles at the journals ''

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'', ''

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'', the ''

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'', and ''

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'', and at the scholarly organisations the

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, the

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, and the

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Selected publications

;Books *David Archard (1980). ''Marxism and Existentialism: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty''. Belfast: Blackstaff Press. (Second edition 1992.) *David Archard (1984). ''Consciousness and Unconscious''. London: Hutchinson. *David Archard (1993). ''Children: Rights and Childhood''. London: Routledge. (Second edition 2004; third edition 2014.) *David Archard (1998). ''Sexual Consent''. Oxford: Westview Press. *David Archard (2003). ''Children, Family, and the State''. Aldershot: Ashgate. *David Archard (2010). ''The Family: A Liberal Defence''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ;Edited collections *David Archard, ed. (1996). ''Philosophy and Pluralism''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *David Archard and Colin M. Macleod, eds. (2002). ''The Moral and Political Status of Children''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *Paul Gifford, David Archard, Trevor A. Hart, and Nigel Rapport, eds. (2002). ''2000 Years and Beyond: Faith, Identity and the Common Era''. London: Routledge. *David Archard and

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, eds. (2010). ''Bearing and Rearing: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood''. Oxford: Oxford University Press. *David Archard,

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, Neil Manson, and Daniel Weinstock, eds. (2013). ''Reading Onora O'Neill''. London: Routledge.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Archard, David 1951 births Living people British philosophers British bioethicists Medical ethicists Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Oxford Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of Ulster University Academics of the University of St Andrews Academics of Lancaster University Academics of Queen's University Belfast People educated at Wyggeston Grammar School for Boys