Allen E. Buchanan

About

Allen E. Buchanan was the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Duke University, as well as Investigator at the Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy (Duke) and Distinguished Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre. He is currently a Laureate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Arizona, where he is part of the Department of Philosophy in the Social Sciences. His professional roles include a focus on ethics and political philosophy. His background includes distinguished positions at Duke University and collaborations with research institutes related to genome sciences and policy. His work involves contributions to philosophical discussions in ethics and political philosophy, and he is engaged in academic activities at the University of Arizona.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Computer Science
• Business
• Medicine
• Public relations
• Philosophy
• Operations research
• Epistemology
• Social psychology
• Management science

Selected publications

• An ethical framework for global vaccine allocation

  Science · 2020 · 351 citations

  The Fair Priority Model offers a practical way to fulfill pledges to distribute vaccines fairly and equitably

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• What are the obligations of pharmaceutical companies in a global health emergency?

  The Lancet · 2021 · 46 citations

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• Secession and Self-Determination

  New York University Press eBooks · 2022 · 39 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The many questions that surround movements for secession and self-determination are both practically urgent and theoretically perplexing. The United States settled its secession crisis in the 1860s. But the trauma and unfinished business of those events are still with us. Around the world secession and self-determination are the key issues that cause strife and instability. This volume provides an unusually comprehensive consideration of the many challenges of law and political philosophy that a…

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• On the Ethics of Vaccine Nationalism: The Case for the Fair Priority for Residents Framework

  Ethics & International Affairs · 2021-01-01 · 39 citations

  articleOpen access

  COVID-19 vaccines are likely to be scarce for years to come. Many countries, from India to the U.K., have demonstrated vaccine nationalism. What are the ethical limits to this vaccine nationalism? Neither extreme nationalism nor extreme cosmopolitanism is ethically justifiable. Instead, we propose the fair priority for residents (FPR) framework, in which governments can retain COVID-19 vaccine doses for their residents only to the extent that they are needed to maintain a noncrisis level of mort…

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• Our Moral Fate : Evolution and the Escape from Tribalism

  2020-03-17 · 34 citations

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  "The subject of this book is moral change, including moral progress and regression. The intention is to use the best thinking about the evolution of morality and the best available social science research to determine the possibilities for progressive change in human moralities by examining important morally progressive changes that have already occurred, in order to determine the social conditions that are conducive to moral progress"--

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Frequent coauthors

• Jeffrey Paul

  University of Manitoba

  101 shared

• Fred D. Miller

  Bowling Green State University

  101 shared

• James S. Fishkin

  Stanford University

  65 shared

• George Mason

  Royal North Shore Hospital

  65 shared

• Jason Brennan

  64 shared

• Richard A. Epstein

  Northwestern University

  64 shared

• Tamara Sharp

  New York Law School

  64 shared

• Jennifer M. Baker

  64 shared

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