Jeff McMahan

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Jeff McMahan (born August 30, 1954 ) is an American moral philosopher and teaches as "White's Professor for Moral Philosophy" at Oxford University . He received special attention through his work on the ethics of killing (especially in war). Furthermore, McMahan was the first to formulate the peculiarity of the so-called " asymmetry " as a philosophical problem.

Life

education

McMahan graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee (US state Tennessee) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature in 1976 . In 1978 he received the same degree in philosophy , political science and business administration from Oxford University , from which he graduated in 1983 as a Master of Arts in philosophy. In 1986 he received his PhD from Cambridge University .

Professional background

From 1982 to 1984 he taught philosophy in Cambridge and at the University of Illinois in Chicago . From 1983 to 1986 he was a research fellow in philosophy at Cambridge. From 1986 to 2001 he was initially an assistant professor and from 1992 an associate professor at the University of Illinois. The same university appointed him professor of philosophy in 2001. He has been teaching at Rutgers University since 2003 . Since 2006 he has also been a visiting professor at Princeton University .

Prices

  • 1977 and 1978: Sidgwick Prize from Corpus Christi College, Oxford for the best philosophical essay
  • 1990: Arnold O. Beckman Research Award from the University of Illinois
  • 2007: Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize from the American Philosophical Association for best unpublished essay in philosophy on war and peace for manuscript of The Morality and Law of War .

Works

  • British Nuclear Weapons: For and Against ; London; Junction books; 1981
  • Reagan and the World: Imperial Policy in the New Cold War ; London; Pluto Press; 1984
  • Reagan and the World: Imperial Policy in the New Cold War ; edited version; New York; Monthly Review Press; 1985
  • The Morality of Nationalism ; New York and Oxford; Oxford University Press; 1997
  • The Ethics of Killing. Problems at the Margins of Life ; Oxford; 2002
  • Killing in war ; Oxford; 2009

Literature on Jeff McMahan

  • Bernhard Koch; Recent discussions about the ius in bello , published in: Ines-Jacqueline Werkner, Antonius Liedhegener (ed.): Gerechter Krieg - Gerechter Friede ; Wiesbaden; 2009

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Curriculum vitae on the Rutgers University website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 111 kB)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.fas.rutgers.edu  
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Bibliography on the author's website
personal data
SURNAME McMahan, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1954