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Normative and applied ethics. Notable ideas. The ethics of intensive animal farming, the ethics of wild animal suffering, the ethics of killing in war, the ethics of nuclear weapons. Jefferson Allen McMahan (/ məkˈmɑːn / mək-MAHN; born August 30, 1954) is an American moral philosopher.
Nov 11, 2023 · I walk into Corpus Christi and I’m greeted by Jeff McMahan, a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Oxford. He’s just had a long chat with a student of his, and there’s a faux changing of the guards as McMahan hugs his student goodbye and then shakes my hand.
White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Oxford. Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Title A Fellow in Philosophy, St. John’s College, Cambridge.
Jun 6, 2017 · In his moral and social philosophy, Jeff McMahan has focused on issues surrounding rights to life and the ethics of killing. He is the leading figure in a group of scholars seeking to significantly revise the received moral and legal norms that govern the ethics of war.
- Mark A. Wilson
- mark.wilson@villanova.edu
Professor Jeff McMahan Jeff is White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, a distinguished research fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and a fellow of Corpus Christi College.
Oct 15, 2017 · Jeff McMahan is an Oxford moral philosopher and vegetarian of almost 50 years. He still doesn’t know if it’s wrong to eat meat. I discovered this when I called McMahan in June to discuss...
I’m the founder and editor of Contrary Magazine. It all started with a review of Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose in 1984 in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, where in 1986 I served as editor. I’m proudest of an article that appeared not long ago in Tricycle.
