David Birks Author & Editor

David Birks is a Departmental Lecturer in Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and an Early Career Research Fellow at the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH), University of Oxford. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Oxford, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Experimental Medicine, University of Kiel. His research focuses on issues such as paternalism, perfectionism, punishment, and public reason. Thomas Douglas is a Senior Research Fellow in the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Practical Ethics.