The Scope of Consent, by Tom Dougherty

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