Jeff McMahan

Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and author of Killing in War and The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life. 

Moral Wounds — Final Response

The value of civilian control does not outweigh a soldier’s reason to avoid killing in the service of unjust aims.

  • Jeff McMahan

The Moral Responsibility of Volunteer Soldiers

Traditional just war theory has it wrong. Soldiers are morally culpable for fighting in unjust wars—and thus deserve the option of selective conscientious objection.

  • Jeff McMahan
with responses from
  • Assaf Sharon
  • Brian Imiola
  • Shannon E. French
  • Seth Lazar
  • Adil Ahmad Haque
  • Lawrence J. Korb
  • Lionel K. McPherson
  • Charles J. Dunlap Jr.
  • Kimberley Brownlee
  • Matt Gallagher
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