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Philippa Ruth Foot FBA (/ ˈ f ɪ l ɪ p ə ˈ f ʊ t /; 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.
Aug 17, 2018 · Philippa Foot wrote many articles treating issues in metaethics, moral psychology, and applied ethics, as well as one monograph on moral philosophy. Throughout her career, she defended the objectivity of morality against various forms of noncognitivism and tangled with issues of moral motivation, notoriously changing her mind about whether ...
Nov 28, 2017 · Philippa Foot was one of a group of brilliant women philosophers who swam against the tide of 20th-century moral thought. Philippa Foot photographed in Oxford, 23 August 1990. Photo by Steve Pyke/Getty Images.
Philippa Foot has for decades been one of Oxford’s best-known and most original ethicists. Her groundbreaking papers won her worldwide recognition but at the dawn of the new century she has finally published her first full-length book.
Feb 27, 2019 · Philippa Foot (b. 1920–d. 2010) is one of the leading philosophers of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Her two collections of essays and her one monograph include important contributions to debates concerning the objectivity of morality, the meaning of moral terms, the logical status of moral judgments, the nature of practical rationality ...
May 16, 2024 · Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth century, Philippa Foot (1920 - 2010). Her central question was, “Why be moral?”
Notes to Philippa Foot 1. The arguments in “Moral Beliefs” have a noticeable affinity with Wittgenstein’s Private Language argument as well as his arguments about pain.
Jan 1, 2021 · Philippa Foot was a British author and philosopher who is best known for her work in ethics, particularly her work developing the trolley problem. She died on her 90th birthday on October 3, 2010.
So, Foot’s view seems to be that philosophers have special insight Introduction: From Natural Goodness to Morality 3 only over a range of issues that pertain to a framework. ˚e framework
Mapping the Quartet traces the legacy of four distinguished philosophers G.E.M. Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, and Mary Midgley.
