Jeff McMahan (philosopher)

Jeff McMahan
Jeff McMahan
Born	Jefferson Allen McMahan; August 30, 1954 (age 70)
Education
Alma mater	University of the South; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; St. John's College, Cambridge
Thesis	Problems of Population Theory (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	St. John's College, Cambridge; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Rutgers University; University of Oxford
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]

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Jeff McMahan
Born	Jefferson Allen McMahan (1954-08-30) August 30, 1954 (age 70)

Education
Alma mater	University of the South Corpus Christi College, Oxford St. John's College, Cambridge
Thesis	Problems of Population Theory (1986)
Doctoral advisor	Jonathan Glover, Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams
Philosophical work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic
Institutions	St. John's College, Cambridge University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rutgers University University of Oxford
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