Shelly Kagan

Shelly Kagan
Born	Shelly Ian Kagan 1956 (age 68–69) Skokie, Illinois, US
Academic background
Alma mater	Wesleyan University Princeton University
Thesis	The Limits of Morality
Doctoral advisor	Thomas Nagel
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Moral philosophy social philosophy political philosophy
Institutions	University of Pittsburgh University of Illinois at Chicago Yale University
Doctoral students	Samantha Brennan
Main interests	Animal ethics desert death
Influenced	Derek Parfit
Website	campuspress.yale.edu/shellykagan

Shelly Ian Kagan (/ˈkeɪɡən/; born 1956) is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1995. He is best known for his writings about moral philosophy and normative ethics.^[1] In 2007, Kagan's course about death was offered for free online, and was very popular.^[2] This led him to publish a book on the subject in 2012. Kagan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2016.