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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 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

‘Thinking What We Want: A Moral Right to Acquire Control over our Thoughts’, forthcoming in Blitz MJ, Bublitz JC (eds) The Law and Ethics of Freedom of Thought, Volume 2 (Palgrave Macmillan), with E Dore-Horgan.

'Should We Use Behavioural Predictions in Organ Allocation?', Bioethics 2025, with M Drezga-Kleiminger, D Wilkinson, J Demaree-Cotton, J Koplin, J Savulescu.

'What Does It Take to Trespass on a Person’s Body?' Analysis 2025.

'Is Consent to Psychological Interventions Less Important than Consent to Bodily Interventions?’ Philosophical Quarterly 2025, with L Forsberg, J Savulescu.

'Right to Mental Integrity and Neurotechnologies: Implications of the Extended Mind Thesis', Journal of Medical Ethics 2024, with V Tesink, L Forsberg, S Ligthart, G Meynen.

'On the Relative Intrusiveness of Physical and Chemical Restraints', AJOB Neuroscience 2024, with G De Marco, L Forsberg, J Savulescu.

'Do AI Systems Allow Online Advertisers to Control Others?', in D Edmonds (ed), AI Morality (Oxford University Press, 2024), with G De Marco.

'An Intuitive, Abductive Argument for a Right Against Mental Interference’, Journal of Ethics 2024.

‘Wrongful Rational Persuasion Online’, Philosophy & Technology 2024, with T Mitchell.

'Criteria for Assessing AI-Based Sentencing Algorithms: A Reply to Ryberg', Philosophy and Technology 2024.

‘What Makes a Medical Intervention Invasive?’, Journal of Medical Ethics 2024, with G De Marco*, J Simons*, L Forsberg (* joint first authors).

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

'The Moral Permissibility of Perspective-taking Interventions', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2023, with H Read.

'How Moral Bioenhancement Affects Perceived Praiseworthiness', Bioethics 2023, with S Lucas, N Faber.

'The Normative Evaluation of Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: From Invasiveness to Human Rights', AJOB Neuroscience 2023, with S Ligthart, V Tesink, L Forsberg, G Meynen.

'Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice: On the Scope of the Moral Right to Bodily Integrity', Neuroethics 2023, with V Tesink, L Forsberg, S Ligthart, G Meynen.

'Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of 'Neurorights ', Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 2023, with S Ligthart, M Ienca, G Meynen, F Molnar-Gabor, R Andorno, C Bublitz, P Catley, L Claydon, N Farahany, JJ Fins, S Goering, P Haselager, F Jotterand, A Lavazza, A McCay, AW Paz, S Rainey, J Ryberg, P Kellmeyer.

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

'Rethinking the Right to Freedom of Thought: A Multidisciplinary Analysis', Human Rights Law Review 2022, with S Ligthart, C Bublitz, L Forsberg, G Meynen.

'Pragmatic Argument for an Acceptance-Refusal Asymmetry in Competence Requirements', Journal of Medical Ethics 2022.

'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.

'Persuasive Technologies and the Right to Mental Liberty: the 'Smart' Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders', in M Ienca, O Pollicino, L Liguori, E Stefanini, R Andorno (eds), The Cambridge Handbook of Information Technology, Life Sciences, and Human Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2022) with S Ligthart, G Meynen.

'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.

'Moral Enhancement ' in Routeledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Routeledge, 2021) with L Forsberg.

'Technology to Prevent Criminal Behaviour' in D Edmonds (ed), Future Morality (Oxford Academic, 2021) with G De Marco.

'Healthcare, Responsibility and Golden Opportunities', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2021, with G De Marco, J Savulescu.

‘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).

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