White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy, Corpus Christi College at the University of Oxford ABSTRACTMany people believe that collectives of certain kinds, such as corporations and states, are entities ca

p. 229-252 in: Animalism, Eds.:Stephan Blatti and Paul Snowdon, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016. New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity. What are we? What is the nature of the human person? An

Creating happy animals in order to eat them: Jeff McMahan and Tim Campbell

In recent debates about the ethics of eating animals, some have advanced the claim that if people cause animals to exist and give them good lives in order to be able to eat them, then even if the anim

Jeff McMahan 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. Abst

Tim Campbell, Personal Identity and Impersonal Ethics In: Principles and Persons: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Edited by: Jeff McMahan, Tim Campbell, James Goodrich, and Ketan Ramakrishnan, Oxford Unive

Bilden av Sverige – en förebild eller ett land i kris?

På senare tid har flera beskrivit Sverige som ett land i kris. Inte sällan kopplas krisen till svensk integrationspolitik. Samtidigt får vi rapporter om att mycket överlag har blivit bättre i dagens S

På senare tid har fler beskrivit Sverige som ett land i kris. Inte sällan kopplas krisen till svensk integrationspolitik. Samtidigt får vi rapporter om att mycket överlag har blivit bättre i dagens Sv

Professor Larry Temkin, a prominent figure within moral philosophy, is retiring. His career was celebrated at a conference at Rutgers University by a number of notable speakers and participants. Our d

How should we make decisions when we’re uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do? Very often we are uncertain about what we ought, morally, to do. We do not know how to weigh the interests of anim

This informal workshop focuses on four papers dealing with a variety of ethical questions associated with the use of age limits, especially in health care. Time: Wednesday, November 23, 14:00 - 18:00Plac The Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS), Holländardgatan 13, Stockholm According to Jeff McMahan, we ought to save an individual, A, from dying as a young adult (e.g., at age 30) rather than save some other individual, B, from dying as a newborn, even if the latter intervention would give B twice as many years of full-quality life as the former intervention would give A.  Call this claim .  I argue that if we accept , then we must reject at least one of three other claims: