Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (né McCord, born December 10, 1956) is an American philosopher who works in moral theory, ethics, meta-ethics, the history of ethics and epistemology.

[1] Sayre-McCord received his BA from Oberlin College and his PhD (working with David Gauthier, Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Clark Glamour, and Kurt Baier) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Sayre-McCord is the Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program at the University of North Carolina, where he has taught since 1985.

[citation needed] Sayre-McCord has written widely on metaethics, David Hume, contractualism and on issues at the intersection of philosophy, politics, and economics.

He is author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entries on moral realism[2] and metaethics.