Tom Dougherty
I'm a Professor in the Philosophy Department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Associate Editor of the journal, Ethics. If you'd like to get in touch, my email is emailtom@unc.edu. My CV is here. My dog's name is Hazel.
My first book, The Scope of Consent, was published in 2021. It investigates what consent is in order to explain which actions are permitted by someone's consent.
My second book, Consent under Duress, entered the production stage in January 2024. It investigates how consent is undermined by different types of duress.
I've recently started a new project on relational morality and wronging. I am also writing essays on being nonjudgmental, welfare, contractualism, and antitrust.
Here is a full list of my publications, along with links to them.
Books
The scope of consent (penultimate version before copyediting)
Oxford University Press, 2021
Consent under duress, (penultimate version before copyediting)
Oxford University Press, forthcoming
Philosophy articles and chapters
Social scripts and sexual agency
Ergo, forthcoming
Paradoxical proposals and consent
in M. Timmons (ed.) Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics,
Volume 13 (Oxford University Press 2024), pp. 9-30
Social constraints on sexual consent
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, 21 (2022): 393–
414
Morality and institutional detail in the law of torts: reflections on Goldberg's and Zipursky's Recognizing Wrongs, (with J. Frick)
Law and Philosophy, 41 (2022): 1-37
Republicanism, justice, and equality of opportunity
in D. Sobel & S. Wall (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, (Oxford University Press 2021), pp. 105-126
Coerced consent with an unknown future
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 103 (2021): 441–461
Sexual consent without passivity
Journal of Tort Law, 14 (2021): 27–43
Why does duress undermine consent?
Nous 55 (2021): 317–333
Sexual misconduct on a scale: gravity, coercion, and consent
Ethics 131 (2021): 319–344
The grounds of the disclosure requirement for informed consent.
American Journal of Bioethics 21 (2021): 68–70
Informed consent, disclosure, and understanding
Philosophy and Public Affairs 48 (2020): 119–150
Disability as solidarity: political not (only) metaphysical
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2020): 219–224
On Wrongs and Crimes: does consent require only an attempt to communicate?
Criminal Law & Philosophy 43 (2019): 409–423
Consent, abandonment, and communication
Law and Philosophy 38 (2019): 387–405
Affirmative consent and due diligence
Philosophy and Public Affairs 46 (2018): 90–112
Altruism and ambition in the dynamic moral life
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (2017): 716–729
The burdens of morality: why act-consequentialism demands too little
Thought 5 (2016): 82–85
Moral indeterminacy, normative powers and convention
Ratio, Special Issue on Ethical Indeterminacy 29 (2016): 448–465
Yes means yes: consent as communication
Philosophy and Public Affairs 43 (2015): 224–253
Future bias and practical reason
Philosophers' Imprint 15 (2015): 1–16
Expecting the unexpected (with S. Horowitz & P. Sliwa)
Res Philosophica 92 (2015): 301–321
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (2014): 352–372
Thought 3 (2014): 21–29
Philosophical Studies 167 (2014): 25–40
Rational numbers: a non-consequentialist explanation of why you should save the many and not the few
Philosophical Quarterly 63 (2013): 413–427
Ethics 123 (2013): 717–744
Aggregation, beneficence and chance
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7 (2013): 1–19
No way around consent: a reply to Rubenfeld on rape by deception
Yale Law Journal Forum 123 (2013): 321–334
Philosophical Studies 163 (2013): 527–537
On whether to prefer pain to pass
Ethics 121 (2011): 521–537
Handbook and encyclopedia chapters
Consent: ethical issues
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), forthcoming
The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, ed. D. Boonin, forthcoming
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, eds. A. Mueller & P. Schaber (2018)
Vagueness and indeterminacy in ethics
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, eds. T. McPherson & D. Plunkett (2018)
Female under-representation articles
Why do female students leave philosophy? The story from Sydney (with S. Baron and K. Miller)
Hypatia 30 (2015): 467–474
Why is there female under-representation among philosophy majors? Evidence of a pre-university effect (with S. Baron & K. Miller)
Ergo 2 (2015): 329–365
Female under-representation among philosophy majors: a map of the hypotheses and a survey of the evidence (with S. Baron & K. Miller)
Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 1 (2015): 1–31