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Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.
Dec 3, 2020 · Judith Jarvis Thomson, who created new fields of inquiry in philosophy through her writings on abortion and a moral thought experiment that she named the “Trolley Problem,” died on Nov. 20 at her...
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Judith Clare Thompson, OC (born September 20, 1954) is a Canadian playwright.
Dec 3, 2020 · Professor Emerita Judith Jarvis Thomson, a philosopher of morality and metaphysics, died on November 20 at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 91. Thomson transformed the philosophical discussion of abortion with her 1971 article “A defense of abortion” and devised the standard form of the “trolley problem.”.
Dec 4, 2020 · MIT Professor Emerita Judith Jarvis Thomson, one of the most influential moral philosophers of our time and "the atomic ice-breaker for women in philosophy,” has died at 91. She is best known for her work on the philosophy of abortion and the "trolley problem."
May 9, 2021 · 2021 marks 50 years since the publication of Judith Jarvis Thomson’s seminal paper, ‘A defense of abortion’, in which she introduced the world to a very famous and very unconscious violinist. It also marks mere months since Thomson’s passing in November 2020.
Jan 1, 1992 · In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, bringing out what in general makes an attribution of a right true.
