Dr Tom Douglas
Wellcome Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
Balliol College
thomas.douglas@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
Balliol College
Broad Street; Oxford; OX1 3BJ
Research Interests
Normative and practical ethics
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Tom Douglas is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Uehiro Centre, and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Otago (New Zealand) before taking up a Rhodes Scholarship in Oxford, where he received his BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics in 2005, and his DPhil in Philosophy in 2010. 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.
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