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Philippa Foot. 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. 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 was born Philippa Ruth Bosanquet on October 3, 1920, in Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, and grew up in Kirkleatham, in North Yorkshire, England. Her mother, Esther, was a daughter of U.S. President Grover Cleveland. Her father, William was an industrialist, running a large Yorkshire steel works. Foot studied philosophy, politics, and ...
Philippa Foot. 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. Editor Rick Lewis asked her about goodness, vice, plants and Nietzsche.
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 ...
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 objective human needs, and her view of practical rationality and moral judgement.
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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.
FOOT, PHILIPPA(1920–) In the last half of the twentieth century, few philosophers figured as prominently and persistently in the central debates of English-speaking moral philosophy as Philippa Foot. N é e Philippa Ruth Bosanquet, she was born in 1920 in Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire, in the United Kingdom. She studied for the PPE (philosophy ...
