Voluntary Consent

Maximilian Kiener is a Junior Professor of Philosophy and Ethics at Hamburg University of Technology, Germany, and an Associate Member of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, UK. He specialises in moral and legal philosophy, with a particular focus on consent, responsibility, and artificial intelligence. He is editor of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Responsibility (2023).

• Part 1: A Novel Account of Voluntary Consent 1. Introduction 2. The History and Definition of Voluntariness and Consent 3. My Proposal: Interpersonal Consenter-Consentee Justification (ICCJ) Part 2: The Theory of Voluntary Consent 4. Voluntariness and Causation 5. Voluntariness and Morality 6. Voluntariness and Coercion Part 3: The Practice of Voluntary Consent 7. Nudging and Manipulation 8. Payment in Clinical Trials 9. Living Organ Donation 10. Conclusion

"This book is extremely impressive. It presents a new and original approach to the issue of the role of voluntariness in valid consent, one emerging from and informed by a thorough knowledge of the extensive literature in the field and in a wide array of different debates. The presentation is very well organized, and the overall strategy is powerfully and clearly articulated. At the same time, it contains a remarkable number of fruitful and suggestive arguments."Roger Crisp, St Anne's College, University of Oxford, UK"Kiener proposes a radical, novel account of when consent is voluntary, namely that consent is voluntary by default and only becomes involuntary when motivated by influences that cannot be interpersonally justified. His account has striking implications for organ donation, payment in clinical trials and nudging, and also extends to sexual relations. The most significant and original contribution to consent in the last 20 years."Julian Savulescu, National University of Singapore