Jeff McMahan (philosopher)

Jeff McMahan is an American philosopher. McMahan took his first degree at the University of Oxford and his PhD at the University of Cambridge, and is currently professor of philosophy at Rutgers University. He has written extensively on normative and applied ethics. His publications include The Morality of Nationalism (co-edited with Robert McKim; Oxford, 1997), The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford, 2002) and Killing in War (Oxford, 2009), which deals with Just War theory and argues against the deeply held beliefs within the theory.

Jeff McMahan is an advocate of the higher brain death view. He claims that there is a difference between an organism's death and a person's death, because person (personhood) refers to the personality and higher-thinking type of responsiveness while organism refers only to the body in which a person is housed.

Selected bibliography

• The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford University Press July 2003) (ISBN 0-195-16982-4)
• Killing In War: (Oxford University Press May 2009) (ISBN 0-199-54866-8)

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

External links

• Personal website. Includes list of publications.
• Unjust War in Iraq. The Pelican Record XLI, no. 5 (December 2004): 21-33.
• Introduction to the work of Jeff McMahan. By Lucia Sommer.