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5 days ago · Goodness is Objective. Judith Jarvis Thomson is my favorite philosopher. Not my favorite American philosopher, or modern philosopher, or female philosopher - just my favorite philosopher, period. She’s best known for her 1971 paper “A Defense of Abortion,” which introduced that classic thought experiment where you wake up attached to a ...
3 days ago · The beginning of the article focuses largely on praising Judith Jarvis Thomson. I don’t have much to say for or against that, but this remark caught my attention: Although Thomson’s treatment of goodness is both intuitively appealing and perfectly suited for resolving many important philosophical puzzles, it’s not one you’re likely to come across unless you engage with more specialized literature.
2 days ago · Bracketting classical Analytic philosophy, and some notable exceptions in the post-classical period—for example, undoubtedly original and important work by G.E.M. Anscombe, Peter Strawson, Ruth Barcan Marcus, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Gareth Evans, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Phillipa Foot, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Harry Frankfurt, Rorty, Bernard Williams, Thomas Nagel, Brian O’Shaughnessy, Richard Wollheim, David Lewis, Derek Parfit, John McDowell, Robert Brandom, Susan Haack, and a few ...
12 hours ago · An argument first presented by Judith Jarvis Thomson in her 1971 paper "A Defense of Abortion" states that even if the fetus is a person and has a right to life, abortion is morally permissible because a woman has a right to control her own body and its life-support functions (i.e. the right to life does not include the right to be kept alive ...
3 days ago · He is the winner of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication’s 2021 Visual Communication Teaching Excellence award and the 2022 Linda Shockley Award for Excellence in Teaching. Publications. Thomson, T., (2019). To see and be seen: The environments, interactions and identities behind news images.
3 days ago · The actual formulation of the trolley problem with the word "trolley" in it was popularized by MIT philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson about ten years after Foot published her paper. For the purpose of this essay, we’ll talk about Foot and her formulation of the trolley problem.
2 days ago · July 7, 2024 by Francis J. Beckwith. 0 Comments. While working on the revised edition of my 2007 book, Defending Life, I came across a June 8, 1981 New York Times opinion piece written by the ...
