BIO

I'm Tom Douglas, Professor of Applied Philosophy and Director of Research at the Uehiro Oxford Institute, University of Oxford, where I am also a member of the Faculty of Philosophy. My research lies in applied and normative ethics and currently focuses on the ethics of bodily and mental interference and of behavioural prediction. I'm currently one of the directors of the Oxford Martin Programme on Decarceration, and from January 2020 to December 2025, I led the project Protecting Minds: The Right to Mental Integrity and the Ethics of Arational Influence, funded by a Consolidator Award from the European Research Council. Other recent projects include Neurointerventions in Crime Prevention: An Ethical Analysis (funded by the Wellcome Trust) and the Oxford Martin Programme on Collective Responsibility for Infectious Disease.