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Philippa Foot | |
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 Philippa Foot (1939) | |
| Born | Philippa Ruth Bosanquet 3 October 1920 Owston Ferry, England |
| Died | 3 October 2010 (aged 90) Oxford, England |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Analytic philosophy Aretaic turn Aristotelianism |
| Institutions | Somerville College, Oxford UCLA |
Main interests | Ethics, aesthetics |
Notable ideas | Trolley problem, modern revival of virtue ethics |
Philippa Ruth Foot FBA (née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 – 3 October 2010) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics. Her work was inspired by Aristotelian ethics. Along with Judith Jarvis Thomson, she is credited with inventing the trolley problem.[1][2] She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. She was a granddaughter of the U.S. President Grover Cleveland.: 354
- ^ Philippa Foot, The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect Archived 24 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine in Virtues and Vices (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1978) (originally in the Oxford Review, No. 5, 1967).
- ^ Edmonds, Dave (2013). Would You Kill the Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong. Princeton University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780691154022. "Philippa Foot set Trolleyology going, but it was Judith Jarvis Thomson, a philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who delivered its most high-voltage jolt. Struck by Foot's thought experiment she responded with not one but two influential articles on what she labelled The Trolley Problem."