<i>The Scope of Consent</i>, by Tom Dougherty
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Abstract
Consent, on a standard theoretical framework, is a way of giving permission or waiving a right. Dougherty’s book is about the ‘scope’ of consent: which acts are permitted by a given act of consent? Along the way, Dougherty offers a view about what consent consists in and why it does its morally transformative work. The book is an exemplar of careful analytic philosophy. Philosophers working on consent in that tradition will find it essential reading. Following are more specific reactions that will, I hope, convey a more specific sense of the book, and also engage and critique it and the tradition it exemplifies. What role should consent play in our ethical theorizing? There is a temptation in some discussions — especially of sexual consent — to try to do almost all of our ethics in terms of consent. One recognizes that an action is morally bad, and posits a new constraint on consent to explain how it’s nonconsensual, thereby explaining its badness.
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| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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