Mark Sheldon

{{short description|American philosopher}}

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|name = Mark Sheldon

|birth_date = 1944

|birth_place = Camp Blanding, FL

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| institutions = Northwestern University, Indiana University, University of Chicago

|main_interests =medical ethics

| thesis_title = Analysis of the Concept of Imagination with a Related Theory of Metaphor

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| thesis_year = 1975

| doctoral_advisor = Henry David Aiken

|academic_advisors= Morris Weitz, Stuart Hampshire, William Johnson, Marvin Fox

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| education = Brandeis University (PhD), Shimer College (AB)

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|website = https://philosophy.northwestern.edu/people/emeriti-faculty/sheldon-mark.html

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Mark Sheldon is an American philosopher and Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Philosophy at Northwestern University. He is known for his works on medical ethics.{{cite journal |last1=Boverman |first1=Maxwell |title=Truth Telling in Medicine |url=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/377641 |journal=JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association |pages=1307 |doi=10.1001/jama.1982.03330110015005 |date=17 September 1982|volume=248 |issue=11 }}{{cite web |last1=Nadig |first1=Ajay |title=Letter to the Editor: Response to letter by philosophy lecturer Mark Sheldon |url=https://dailynorthwestern.com/2017/02/05/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-response-to-letter-by-philosophy-lecturer-mark-sheldon/ |website=The Daily Northwestern |date=6 February 2017}}{{cite journal |title=Contributors |journal=The American Journal of Bioethics |date=2003 |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=iv–vi |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/44124 |issn=1536-0075}}{{cite journal |last1=Macklin |first1=R. |title=Applying the four principles |journal=Journal of Medical Ethics |date=1 October 2003 |volume=29 |issue=5 |pages=275–280 |doi=10.1136/jme.29.5.275 |pmid=14519836 |language=en |issn=0306-6800|pmc=1733786 }}

Previously, he was Professor of Philosophy and adjunct professor of medicine at Indiana University.