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
David Benatar, eds. (2010). Bearing and Rearing: The Ethics of Procreation and Parenthood. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
David Archard,
Monique Deveaux, Neil Manson, and Daniel Weinstock, eds. (2013). Reading Onora O'Neill. London: Routledge.