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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 ...
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.
What is it that makes Philippa Foot one the best and most important moral philosophers of our age? Is it because she possesses a razor-sharp mind and the kind of analytic skill that enables her to dissect an argument at twenty paces?
May 31, 2024 · Trolley problem, in moral philosophy, a question first posed by the contemporary British philosopher Philippa Foot as a qualified defense of the doctrine of double effect and as an argument for her thesis that negative duties carry significantly more weight in moral decision making than positive duties.
Oct 9, 2010 · Philippa Foot, a philosopher who argued that moral judgments have a rational basis, and who introduced the renowned ethical thought experiment known as the Trolley Problem, died at her home in...
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 ...
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.
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.
Dec 1, 2023 · Philippa Foot was a founder of modern virtue ethics, a theory of normative ethics that focuses on the outcomes of action and is founded in Aristotelian ethics. She devoted her career exclusively to moral philosophy, including issues in metaethics, moral psychology, and applied ethics.
