Jeff McMahan

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• UIUniversalist Impulse

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  6 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Wilfrid SellarsCARTOGRAPHER

  Myth of the Given — manifest and scientific images side by side.

• Timothy WilliamsonCARTOGRAPHER

  Knowledge first — knowing as the unanalyzable starting point.

• Crispin WrightCARTOGRAPHER

  Realism in question — meaning, truth, and rule-following.

• Donald DavidsonCARTOGRAPHER

  Anomalous monism; radical interpretation as the test of meaning.

• Helen FroweCARTOGRAPHER

  Just war revisited — defensive liability and individual moral standing.

• Toby OrdFORGE

  The Precipice — humanity's long future as a moral category.

Short exercises in the same tradition as Jeff McMahan's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Argument mapping →

  Draw the structure of an argument as boxes and arrows. See its load-bearing walls.

• Reductio ad absurdum →

  Take a claim seriously, run it to its logical limit, see if you still believe it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.