Philosopher
Philippa Foot
Overview
Philippa Ruth Foot (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.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Philosophers who discussed Philippa Foot
- J. O. Urmson
- Thomas Nagel
- John Finnis
- John McDowell
- Thomas Aquinas
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Peter Geach
- J. J. C. Smart
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Iris Murdoch
- Mary Midgley
- Susan R. Wolf
- Rosalind Hursthouse
Ideas Philippa Foot discusses
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Grover Cleveland
- Western philosophy
- Atheism
- Analytic philosophy
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- The Guardian
- A. J. Ayer
- Non-cognitivism
- Aesthetics
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Normative ethics
- Oxford
- University of California Press
- R. M. Hare
- Virtue ethics
- Deontology
- Trolley problem
- Aristotelian ethics
- Aristotelianism
- University of California, Berkeley
- Is–ought problem
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Morality
Place in the tradition
Part of American philosophy.