BIO

I'm Tom Douglas, Professor of Applied Philosophy and Director of Research at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. My research lies in applied and normative ethics and currently focuses on the ethics of predicting and influencing behaviour. Since January 2020, I've been leading 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. 

SOME RECENT PUBLICATIONS

'Nudge Transparency Is Not Required for Nudge Resistibility', Ergo 2023, with G De Marco.

'Gene Editing, Identity and Benefit', Philosophical Quarterly 2022, with K Devolder.

Learning to Discriminate: The Perfect Proxy Problem in Artificially Intelligent Criminal Sentencing’, in J Roberts, J Ryberg (eds), Principled Sentencing and Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2022) with B Davies.

'If Nudges Treat Their Targets as Rational Agents, Nonconsensual Neurointerventions Can Too', Ethical Theory & Moral Practice 2022.

‘The Mere Substitution Defence of Nudging Works for Neurointerventions Too’, Journal of Applied Philosophy 2022.

‘(When) Is Adblocking Wrong?’, in C Véliz (ed), Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2022).  

'What is Criminal Rehabilitation?', Criminal Law and Philosophy, 2022, with L Forsberg.

‘The Expressivist Objection to Nonconsensual Neurocorrectives’, Criminal Law & Philosophy 2021, with G De Marco.

‘Three Rationales for a Legal Right to Mental Integrity’ in D Van Toor, S Ligthart, T Kooijmans, T Douglas, G Meynen (eds), Neurolaw: Ways forward for Neuroscience, Justice & Security (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), with L Forsberg.

‘Is Moral Status Good for You?’, in S Clarke, H Zohny, J Savulescu (eds), Rethinking Moral Status (Oxford University Press, 2021). 

'Compulsory Medical Intervention versus External Constraint in Pandemic Control', Journal of Medical Ethics, online 2020, with L Forsberg and J Pugh.

'Punishing Wrongs from the Distant Past', Law and Philosophy 2019.

'A Conception of Genetic Parenthood', Bioethics 2019, with K Devolder.

'Enhancement & Desert', Politics, Philosophy & Economics 2019.

'Parental Partiality and Future Children', Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 2019.