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Philippa Ruth Foot FBA (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 ...
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.
Oct 25, 2010 · Philippa foot, who died Oct. 3, her 90th birthday, helped transform the field of moral philosophy. Carefully attending to the way we actually reason about what we should do, she joined her...
Feb 22, 2001 · Philippa Foot sets out a naturalistic theory of ethics, which she calls ‘natural normativity’ and which is radically opposed to the subjectivist, non‐naturalism tradition deriving from David Hume and to be found in G. E. Moore and modern theories of ethics influenced by Moore, such as emotivism and prescriptivism.
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.
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Oct 4, 2022 · Philippa Foot looked for a natural raison d’être to morality – one that would ensure its reality – without always being sure what “natural” means. Her work evolved around this theme across three distinct periods. To begin, she was simply a realist.
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Apr 7, 2020 · Two cornerstones in the thinking of British philosopher Philippa Foot (∗1920; †2010) were her rigorous rejection of ethical Non-Cognitivism as well as her firm belief that a successful ethics must be based on a plausible explanation of virtues and vices.
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.
