Jefferson McMahan (mcmahan)

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Bibliography

Campbell, Tim and McMahan, Jefferson. 2016. “Animalism and the Varieties of Conjoined Twinning.” in Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, edited by Stephan Blatti and Paul F. Snowdon, pp. 229–252. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608751.003.0011.
Davis, Nancy Ann, Keshen, Richard and McMahan, Jefferson, eds. 2010. Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325195.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 1981. “Problems of Population Theory: Review of Sikora and Barry (1978).” Ethics 92: 96–127.
McMahan, Jefferson. 1991. “War and Peace.” in A Companion to Ethics, edited by Peter Singer, pp. 384–398. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
McMahan, Jefferson. 1998. “Preferences, Death, and the Ethics of Killing.” in Preferences, edited by Christoph Fehige and Ulla Wessels, pp. 471–502. Perspektiven der analytischen Philosophie / Perspectives in Analytic Philosophy n. 19. Berlin: de Gruyter.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2000. “Moral Intuition.” in The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory, edited by Hugh LaFollette, 1st ed., pp. 92–110. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Reprinted in LaFollette and Persson (2013, 103–121).
McMahan, Jefferson. 2002. The Ethics of Killing. Problems at the Margins of Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/0195079981.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2005a. “The Basis of Moral Liability to Defensive Killing.” in Philosophical Issues 15: Normativity, edited by Ernest Sosa and Enrique Villanueva, pp. 386–405. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2005b. “Summary of McMahan (2002).” Philosophical Books 46(1): 1–3.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2005c. “On Harming and Killing: Replies to Hanser (2005), Persson and Savulescu (2005) and Wasserman (2005).” Philosophical Books 46(1): 34–44.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2005d. “Animals.” in A Companion to Applied Ethics, edited by Christopher Heath Wellman and Ray G. Frey, pp. 525–536. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2006. “Preventive War and the Killing of the Innocent.” in The Ethics of War. Shared Problems in Different Traditions, edited by Richard Sorabji and David Rodin, pp. 169–190. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2007. “Just War.” in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit, and Thomas W. Pogge, 2nd ed., pp. 669–677. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy n. 2. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2008. “Aggression and Punishment.” in War: Essays in Political Philosophy, edited by Larry May and Emily Crookston, pp. 67–84. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2009a. Killing in War. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199548668.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2009b. “Cognitive Disability and Cognitive Enhancement.” Metaphilosophy 40(3–4): 583–605.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2009c. “Intention, Permissibility, Terrorism, and War.” in Philosophical Perspectives 23: Ethics, edited by John Hawthorne, pp. 345–372. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley; Sons, Inc.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2009d. “Death, Brain Death, and Persistent Vegetative State.” in A Companion to Bioethics, edited by Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, 2nd ed., pp. 286–298. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, doi:10.1002/9781444307818.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2010. “Humanitarian Intervention, Consent, and Proportionality.” in Ethics and Humanity: Themes from the Philosophy of Jonathan Glover, edited by Nancy Ann Davis, Richard Keshen, and Jefferson McMahan, pp. 44–73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325195.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2011a. “Summary.” Analysis 71(3): 511–512.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2011b. “Who is Morally Liable to Be Killed in War.” Analysis 71(3): 544–559.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2012. “War.” in The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy, edited by David Estlund, pp. 298–318. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195376692.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2013. “Can Soldiers be Expected to Know whether Their War is just?” in The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War. Just War Theory in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans, and Adam Henschke, pp. 13–22. Routledge Handbooks. London: Routledge.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2014a. “Potential.” in Potentiality: Metaphysical and Bioethical Dimensions, edited by John P. Lizza, pp. 140–173. Baltimore, Maryland: John Hopkins University Press.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2014b. “What Rights May Be Defended by Means of War?” in The Morality of Defensive War, edited by Cécile Fabre and Seth Lazar, pp. 115–158. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199682836.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2014c. “Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners.” in How We Fight. Ethics in War, edited by Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang, pp. 104–137. Mind Association Occasional Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199673438.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2015. “The Comparative Badness for Animals of Suffering and Death.” in The Ethics of Killing Animals, edited by Tatjana Višak and Robert Garner, pp. 65–85. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199396078.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2016a. “The Limits of Self-Defense.” in The Ethics of Self-Defense, edited by Christian Coons and Michael Weber, pp. 185–210. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190206086.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2016b. “A Challenge to Gun Rights.” in Philosophers Take On the World, edited by David Edmonds, pp. 17–20. New York: Oxford University Press.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2017. “Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors.” in The Ethics of War. Essays, edited by Saba Bazargan-Forward and Samuel C. Rickless, pp. 3–27. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
McMahan, Jefferson. 2018. “Human Dignity, Suicide, and Assisting Others to Die.” in Human Dignity and Assisted Death, edited by Sebastian Muders, pp. 13–29. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190675967.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson, Campbell, Tim, Goodrich, James and Ramakrishnan, Ketan, eds. 2021. Principles and Persons; The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192893994.001.0001.
McMahan, Jefferson, Campbell, Tim, Goodrich, James and Ramakrishnan, Ketan, eds. 2022. Ethics and Existence: The Legacy of Derek Parfit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192894250.001.0001.

Further References

Hanser, Matthew. 2005. “Where’s the Harm in Dying? [on McMahan (2002)].” Philosophical Books 46(1): 4–10.
LaFollette, Hugh, ed. 2000. The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. 1st ed. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Second edition: LaFollette and Persson (2013).
LaFollette, Hugh and Persson, Ingmar, eds. 2013. The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory. 2nd ed. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. First edition: LaFollette (2000), doi:10.1111/b.9780631201199.1999.x.
Persson, Ingmar and Savulescu, Julian. 2005. “McMahan on the Withdrawal of Life-Prolonging Aid [on McMahan (2002)].” Philosophical Books 46(1): 11–22.
Sikora, Richard I. and Barry, Brian M. 1978. Obligations to Future Generations. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press.
Wasserman, David. 2005. “Prenatal Harm and Preemptive Abortion in a Two-Tiered Morality [on McMahan (2002)].” Philosophical Books 46(1): 22–33.