Resume
Education
2017-20
University of Southampton
PhD in Philosophy, supervised by Prof. Elselijn Kingma, as member of ERC-funded project Better Understanding the Metaphysics of Pregnancy (BUMP).
2016-17
Jesus College Oxford
MSt Women's Studies.
2013-16
Selwyn College Cambridge
BA Hons Philosophy (Parts IA and IB) and Sociology (Part II)
Academic posts and visiting positions
2022-current
University of Nottingham
Nottingham Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy
2023
University of Oslo
Visiting Research Fellow
2020-2022
Czech Academy of Sciences
Postdoc in Interdisciplinary Research Lab for Bioethics (IRLaB)
2021-2022
Institute for Human Sciences Vienna
Jan Patočka Visiting Research Fellow
2019
Interdisciplinary Centre for Ethics, Jagiellonian University
Visiting Research Fellow
Publications
Baron, T. (2023) 'Double-donor surrogacy and the intention to parent'. Bioethics. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13204
Baron, T. (2023) 'Surrogacy and the fiction of medical necessity'. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. DOI: 10.1017/S0963180123000269
Baron, T. (2023) The Philosopher’s Guide to Parenthood: Storks, Surrogates, and Stereotypes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Baron, T. (2022) ‘The Ethics of Parenthood’ in The Rowman and & Littlefield Handbook of Bioethics, eds. E. Di Nucci, J. Lee, & I. Wagner, Rowman & Littlefield.
Baron, T. (2022) ‘Stem Cells: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd Edition. By Jonathan Slack’. Teaching Philosophy 45(3), pp. 368–71. DOI: 10.5840/teachphil2022453167.
Baron, T. (2022) ‘COVID-19, care ethics, and vulnerability’ in Philosophical Perspectives on the Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic, ed. G. Schweiger, Springer.
Baron, T. (2021) ‘Ruth E. Groenhout, Care Ethics and Social Structures in Medicine.’ Journal of Moral Philosophy 18(6), pp. 663-665. DOI: 10.1163/17455243-18060004
Baron, T. & G. Dierckxsens (2021) ‘Defending two dilemmas.’ Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(9):639-640. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107856.
Baron, T. & G. Dierckxsens (2021) ‘Two ethical dilemmas for the medical treatment of gender dysphoria in youth.’ Journal of Medical Ethics. 48(9): 603-607. DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2021-107260.
Baron, T. (2021) ‘Moving forwards: A problem for full ectogenesis.’ Bioethics, 35:5, pp.407-413. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12848.
Baron, T. (2020) ‘Gestationalism and the Rights of Adolescent Mothers’. Moral Philosophy and Politics 7(2): 239–54. DOI: 10.1515/mopp-2019-0045.
Baron, T. (2020) ‘A Lost Cause? Fundamental Problems for Causal Theories of Parenthood’. Bioethics 34(7): 664–70. DOI: 10.1111/bioe.12719.
Baron, T. (2019) ‘Nobody Puts Baby in the Container: The Foetal Container Model at Work in Medicine and Commercial Surrogacy’. Journal of Applied Philosophy 36(3): 491–505. DOI: 10.1111/japp.12336.