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Allen E. Buchanan, James B Duke Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	203C West Duke Building
Office Phone:	+1 919-660-2426
Email Address:

Office Hours:

Fall 2004: W 1:45-3:00 pm

Education:

Ph.D.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	1975
B.A.	Columbia University	1970
B.A., Magna cum laude	Columbia Uiversity	1970

Specialties:

Political Philosophy
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International Affairs
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Research Interests:

Allen Buchanan (Ph.D. 1975, UNC Chapel Hill) joined the faculty in 2002 as professor of philosophy and of public policy in the Sanford Institute. He was previously at the Universities of Arizona, Wisconsin and Minnesota. He is the author of over one hundred articles and six books: Marx and Justice: Radical Critique of Liberalism (1982), Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market (1985), Deciding For Others: The Ethics of Surrogate Decision Making (with Dan W. Brock, 1989), Secession: The Morality of Political Divorce From Fort Sumter to Lithuania and Quebec (1991) and (with Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels, and Daniel Wikler), From Chance to Choice (1999). He served as Staff Philosopher for the President's commission on Medical Ethics, where he was a principal author of the Commission's two book-length reports on ethical issues in genetics (1983). As Staff-Consultant for the U.S. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, Buchanan authored the ethical framework chapter for the Committee's final report (1995). From 1996 to 2000 he served as a member of the Advisory Council for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Buchanan is currently Director of the Consortium on Pharmacogenetics. His most recent book is Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law(2003).

Areas of Interest:

Political Philosophy
 Bioethics
 Philosophy of Social Science

Keywords:

World • U.S. • Political Philosophy • Bioethics

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Aaron Ancell  
• Heather Wallace  
• Antoinette Scherz  
• Matt DeCamp  
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• Monica A Hlavac  
• Russell Powell  
• Allison Schmidt  

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Buchanan, A; Powell, R, Evolving Measures of Moral Success, in Human Success: Evolutionary Origins and Ethical Implications (January, 2023), pp. 270-294, ISBN 9780190096168 [doi]
2. Barrett, J; Buchanan, A, Social Experimentation in an Unjust World, in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy: Volume 9, vol. 9 (January, 2023), pp. 127-152, ISBN 9780198877639 [doi]  [abs]
3. Buchanan, A, When Knowing What Is Just and Being Committed to Achieving it Is Not Enough, Journal of Applied Philosophy, vol. 38 no. 5 (November, 2021), pp. 725-735 [doi]  [abs]
4. Emanuel, EJ; Buchanan, A; Chan, SY; Fabre, C; Halliday, D; Heath, J; Herzog, L; Leland, RJ; McCoy, MS; Norheim, OF; Saenz, C; Schaefer, GO; Tan, K-C; Wellman, CH; Wolff, J; Persad, G, What are the obligations of pharmaceutical companies in a global health emergency?, Lancet (London, England), vol. 398 no. 10304 (September, 2021), pp. 1015-1020 [doi]
5. Emanuel, EJ; Buchanan, A; Chan, SY; Fabre, C; Halliday, D; Leland, RJ; Luna, F; Mccoy, MS; Norheim, OF; Schaefer, GO; Tan, KC; Wellman, CH, On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism: The Case for the Fair Priority for Residents Framework, Ethics & International Affairs, vol. 35 no. 4 (January, 2021), pp. 543-562 [doi]  [abs]