Thomas Douglas

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Thomas Douglas

Thomas Douglas is a Wellcome Trust Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. He qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, before moving to Balliol College as a Rhodes Scholar, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics. He stayed on in Oxford to complete a Doctorate in Philosophy, writing his thesis on the ethics of human enhancement. Tom is currently working on the ethics of creating dangerous knowledge and of modifying moral dispositions. He has also written on organ donation policy, reproductive decision-making, slippery slope arguments and compensatory justice.

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