Shelly Ian Kagan is the Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, where he has taught since 1995. He is best known for his writings about animal ethics, moral philosophy, normative ethics, and philosophy of death. In 2007, Kagan's course about death was offered for free online, and was very popular. 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.

Death
2012
ISBN 9780300180848
The limits of morality
1991
ISBN 9780198239161
Normative ethics
1997
ISBN 9780813345468
The Geometry Of Desert
2005
ISBN 9780199895601
Ling ren zhao mi de sheng yu si
2015
ISBN 9789861342573
How to Count Animals, More or Less
2019
ISBN 9780192862761