Allen Buchanan

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Allen Edward Buchanan
bioethicist, professor

Allen Edward Buchanan is a moral, political and legal philosopher. As of 2022, he held multiple academic positions: Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the

King's College, London, and James B. Duke Professor Emeritus at Duke University.[1]

Education and career

Professor Buchanan received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1970 and his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1975. Dr. Buchanan's initial academic job was at the University of Minnesota, where he was promoted to associate professor of philosophy with tenure. He was a professor at the University of Arizona from 1982 to 1993; a professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 1993 to 1998; before returning to Arizona for 4 years. He was recruited to Duke in 2001.[2][3]

Earlier in his career, Buchanan served as a staff philosopher for the President's Commission on Medical Ethics; served on the Advisory Council for the

Hastings Center
, an independent bioethics research institution.

Philosophical work

He has written six books covering such topics as Marx, applied ethics (especially bio-medical ethics), social justice, and international justice, including the foundations of international law.

His academic collaborators have included

Daniel Wikler
.

Bibliography

Articles published

Buchanan, Allen, Keohane, Robert O. "The Preventive Use of Force: A Cosmopolitan Institutional Proposal." Ethics and International Affairs, 18(1), 1-22, 22 p. 2004.

See also

  • Liberal eugenics

References

  1. ^ "People | The Dickson Poon School of Law | King's College London". Kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  2. ^ "CV" (PDF). fds.duke.edu. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
  3. ^ "Allen Edward Buchanan | Scholars@Duke".
  4. ^ "Professor Allen Buchanan". Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics. Archived from the original on 2017-12-15. Retrieved 2021-11-02.

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