The De George Lecture 2026-27: Jeff McMahan

About the Speaker:

Jeff McMahan is Emeritus Sekyra and White's Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He studied at Oxford and Cambridge and works in normative and applied ethics, political philosophy, and legal theory. He has written about a range of issues concerning harming, killing, and saving. These issues include war, self- and other-defense, abortion, infanticide, euthanasia, the metaphysics of personal identity, the metaphysics of death, the evaluation of death, the moral status of animals, causing people to exist, disability, torture, philanthropy, and related subjects. His books include The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford, 2002) and Killing in War (Oxford, 2009).