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Philippa Ruth Foot FBA ( / ˈfɪlɪpə ˈfʊt /; née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 – 3 October 2010) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics.
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 ...
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 · A comprehensive overview of the life and work of Philippa Foot, a leading philosopher of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Learn about her contributions to moral philosophy, virtue ethics, neo-Aristotelianism, and Wittgensteinian influence.
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.
Philippa Foot is a renowned moral philosopher who challenges the is/ought gap and speaker-relative accounts of ethics. In this interview, she explains her concept of natural goodness, based on the objective needs of living things, and her view of practical rationality and moral judgement.
Nov 28, 2017 · Philippa Foot, née Bosanquet, had a more privileged upbringing than most philosophers of her generation, but it was a privilege of the wrong sort. Her father was the prosperous manager of a steelworks in Yorkshire who brought her up in a world of hunting balls.
