Jeff McMahan | |
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| Born | Jefferson Allen McMahan August 30, 1954 |
| Alma mater | University of the South Corpus Christi College, Oxford St. John's College, Cambridge |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic |
| Institutions | St. John's College, Cambridge University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rutgers University University of Oxford |
| Thesis | Problems of Population Theory (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams |
Main interests | 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. He has been Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford since 2014.[1]