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Tom Dougherty is a core faculty member of UNC’s Philosophy, Politics and Economics Program. He completed his B.A., in PPE, at Oxford (2004) and his PhD, in Philosophy, at MIT (2010). Before coming to UNC, he was a post-doctoral scholar at Stanford (2010-2012), a lecturer at the University of Sydney (2012-2014), a University Lecturer in the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall (2014-2019) and a Faculty Fellow at the Murphy Institute of the University of Tulane (2018-2019).
Dougherty is writing books on the ethics of consent and on the rational (in)significance of the fact that we act from a temporal perspective. Among other topics, he has also researched the debate over consequentialism, ethical vagueness and female under-representation in philosophy.
Personal website: https://sites.google.com/site/tomdoughertyphilosophy/
Philosophy articles
Why does duress undermine consent?
Forthcoming in Nous
Informed consent, disclosure, and understanding
Philosophy and Public Affairs, 48 (2020): 119-150
Disability as solidarity: political not (only) metaphysical
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 100 (2020): 219-224
Consent, abandonment and communication
Law and Philosophy 38 (2019): 387-405
On Wrongs and Crimes: does consent require only an attempt to communicate?
Criminal Law & Philosophy 43 (2019): 409-423
Affirmative consent and due diligence
Philosophy and Public Affairs 46 (2018): 90-112
Altruism and ambition in the dynamic moral life
Australasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (2017): 716-729
The burdens of morality: why act-consequentialism demands too little
Thought 5 (2016): 82-85
Moral indeterminacy, normative powers and convention
Ratio, Special Issue on Ethical Indeterminacy 29 (2016): 448-465
Yes means yes: consent as communication
Philosophy and Public Affairs 43 (2015): 224-253
Future bias and practical reason
Philosophers’ Imprint 15 (2015): 1-16
Expecting the unexpected (with S. Horowitz & P. Sliwa)
Res Philosophica 92 (2015): 301-321
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (2014): 352-372
Thought 3 (2014): 21-29
Philosophical Studies, Special Issue for the 2013 Bellingham Summer Philosophy Conference, 167 (2014): 25-40
Rational numbers: a non-consequentialist explanation of why you should save the many and not the few
Philosophical Quarterly 63 (2013): 413-427
Ethics 123 (2013): 717-744
Aggregation, beneficence and chance
Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 7 (2013): 1-19
No way around consent: a reply to Rubenfeld on rape by deception
Yale Law Journal Forum 123 (2013): 321-334
Philosophical Studies 163 (2013): 527-537
On whether to prefer pain to pass
Ethics 121 (2011): 521-537
Handbook and encyclopedia chapters
“Sex and consent I: The importance of consent,”
Invited for The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Sex, eds. C. Chambers, B. Earp & L. Watson
Consent: ethical issues
Contracted for Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online)
The Routledge Handbook of the Ethics of Consent, eds. A. Mueller & P. Schaber (2018)
Vagueness and indeterminacy in ethics
The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, eds. T. McPherson & D. Plunkett (2018)
Female under-representation articles
Why do female students leave philosophy? The story from Sydney (with S. Baron and K. Miller), Hypatia 30 (2015): 467-474
Why is there female under-representation among philosophy majors? Evidence of a pre-university effect (with S. Baron & K. Miller), Ergo 2 (2015): 329-365
Female under-representation among philosophy majors: a map of the hypotheses and a survey of the evidence (with S. Baron & K. Miller), Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 1 (2015): 1-31