Jordan MacKenzie

Selected Publications

"Survivor Guilt," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming (with Michael Zhao).

Pre-print.

"Self-Deception as a Moral Failure,"The Philosophical Quarterly, 72(2) (2022):402-21. Pre-print. Journal.

"Caring By Lying,"Bioethics, 35(9) (2021): 877-833. Pre-print. Journal.

"Knowing Yourself and Being Worth Knowing,"Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 4(2) (2018): 243-261. Pre-print. Journal.

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Academic Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia.

Before arriving at UVA, I was an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Tech. While at VT, I had the pleasure of directing the department's incredible MA program. I completed my PhD at UNC Chapel Hill under the supervision of Thomas E. Hill in 2017, and my postdoc at the NYU Center for Bioethics.

You can find my CV here.

I work primarily in normative ethics, feminist philosophy, practical ethics, moral psychology, and social/political philosophy. At present, I'm interested in ethical issues related to self-knowledge and self-deception, the rational defensibility of seemingly irrational emotions like survivor guilt and agent-regret, and our ethical obligations at the end of life.

In 2022, I received an Excellence in Advising Award and was selected as the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences' Outstanding Faculty Mentor of the Year.