Tom Douglas
Role or Position
Tom is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, and a James Martin Fellow in the Program on Ethics of the New Biosciences.
Email address
thomas.douglas@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Academic Background
He received degrees in bioethics (B.Med.Sc.) and medicine (M.B.Ch.B.) from the University of Otago, New Zealand before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford, where he received his B.A. in Philosophy, Politics & Economics and recently completed his D.Phil. in Philosophy.
Research Interests
Tom Douglas is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre, and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. His research lies mainly in normative and practical ethics and currently focuses on the ethics of enhancing or modifying moral capacities, the nature of moral improvement, and the ethics of producing and disseminating dangerous knowledge. He has also written on the philosophical foundations of compensation for injury and illness, slippery slope arguments, reproductive ethics, and organ donation policy.
Further Researcher in: Cognitive Enhancement.
Publications include
1. Douglas, T., Savulescu, J. (forthcoming), 'Synthetic Biology and the Ethics of Knowledge,' Journal of Medical Ethics [via journal site]
2. Douglas, T. (2010), 'Should Institutions Prioritize Rectification over Aid?' Philosophical Quarterly, 60 (241): 698-717 [html version]
3. Douglas, T. (2010), 'Intertemporal Disagreement and Empirical Slippery Slope Arguments,' Utilitas, 22(2):184-197 [via journal site]
4. Douglas, T., Devolder, K., Rippon, S., Stafforini, P., Powell, R. (2010), 'Resisting Sparrow's Sexy Reductio: Selection Principles and the Social Good,' American Journal of Bioethics,10 (7):16-18 [journal version]
5. Douglas, T. (2009), 'Medical Injury Compensation: Beyond 'No-Fault', Medical Law Review,17 (1): 30-51 [html]
6. Douglas, T. (2008), 'Moral Enhancement', Journal of Applied Philosophy, 25 (3): 228-245[html]
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