Jordan MacKenzie
Jordan MacKenzie, Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
220 Stanger Street
Blacksburg, VA 24061
jmackenzie@vt.edu
Jordan MacKenzie is an assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech. Prior to arriving in Blacksburg, she was an assistant professor/faculty fellow at the NYU Center for Bioethics. She works primarily in normative ethics and bioethics, and is interested in questions relating to the moral value of self-knowledge, the harms caused by self-deception, and the moral dilemmas that often confront us at the end of life.
- Self-respect
- Self-knowledge
- Self-deception
- The right to know and genetic information
- End-of-life ethical issues
- PhD in Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2017
- MA in Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
- BAH in Philosophy, Queen’s University, 2011
Journal Articles
“Knowing Yourself and Being Worth Knowing,” Journal of the American Philosophical Association 4(2): 243-261 (2018)
“Genetic Information, the Principle of Rescue, and Special Obligations,” with S. Matthew Liao, The Hastings Center Report 48(3):18-19 (2018)
“Agent-Regret and the Social Practice of Moral Luck,” Res Philosophica, 1:95-117 (2017)
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