• Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges...
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  • A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake...
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    philosopher Philippa Foot. Later dubbed "the trolley problem" by Judith Jarvis Thomson in a 1976 article that catalyzed a large literature, the subject...
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  • ethics. Her work was inspired by Aristotelian ethics. Along with Judith Jarvis Thomson, she is credited with inventing the trolley problem. She was elected...
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  • Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson is a 2001 book edited by Alex Byrne, Robert C. Stalnaker and Ralph Wedgwood...
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    book by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, in which Harman tries to provide a defense of moral relativism and Thomson tries to refute it. The book...
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  • review of the book Fact and Value in honor of MIT's philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson, has formulated – somewhat tongue-in-cheek – 13 conditions that...
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  • American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson. They separated in 1976 and divorced in 1980; they remained colleagues until James Thomson’s death in 1984. In...
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  • Anita Superson (fl. 2014) Lisa Tessman Amie Thomasson (born 1968) Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020)W C O Valerie Tiberius (fl. 2014) Lynne Tirrell (fl....
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  • affects moral obligations. Another thought experiment, proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson, examines the moral implications of abortion by imagining a situation...
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  • Sorting out Ethics (Oxford University Press) Gilbert Harman & Judith Jarvis Thomson, Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell Publishing),...
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    with other objects and laboring is not an object, but an activity. Judith Jarvis Thomson points out that the act of laboring makes Locke's argument either...
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    dissertation which was submitted to Harvard University in 1964] (with Judith Jarvis Thomson), Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (Blackwell, 1996) ISBN 0-631-19211-5...
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  • professional golfer Edward Thomson, bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church Iain Donald Thomson, American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020), American...
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  • Jordan Howard Sobel (Nov 1987). "Gödel's ontological proof". In Judith Jarvis Thomson (ed.). On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright. Cambridge/MA...
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  • Wolfgang Smith Robert Stalnaker Peter F. Strawson Eleonore Stump Judith Jarvis Thomson Peter Unger Peter van Inwagen David Wiggins Stuart Wilde Colin Wilson...
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  • Marcus, J.B. Schneewind, Anita Silvers, Ernest Sosa, Karen Hanson, Judith Jarvis Thomson, John Perry, Michael Bratman, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Audi, Peggy...
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  • Irving Thalberg, Jr. Laurence Thomas Paul B. Thompson Iain Thomson Judith Jarvis Thomson Henry David Thoreau Paul Tillich Samuel Martin Thompson Samuel...
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  • Strauss Sun Yat-sen Gabriele Taylor Jenny Teichman Larry Temkin Judith Jarvis Thomson Paul Tillich Hsun Tzu Leo Tolstoy Joan Tronto Konstantin Tsiolkovsky...
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  • Defense of Abortion" from Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 1, no. 1, Judith Jarvis Thomson (Fall 1971) "After the Death of God the Father" from Commonweal...
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    Korsgaard, Saul Kripke, John McDowell, Martha Nussbaum, Hilary Putnam, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Willard Van Orman Quine, Wlodek Rabinowicz, Amartya Sen, Patrick...
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  • the ethics of abortion. For example, in "A Defense of Abortion", Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that one person's right to bodily autonomy trumps another's...
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  • not permissible after two weeks. An argument first presented by Judith Jarvis Thomson in her 1971 paper "A Defense of Abortion" states that even if the...
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    1973 Psychoanalyst Dame Emma Thompson 1959 Actress, screenwriter Judith Jarvis Thomson 1929 2020 Philosopher Constance Tipper 1894 1995 Metallurgist, crystallographer...
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  • Christian Thomasius (1655–1728)[4] William Thompson (1775–1833) Judith Jarvis Thomson (1929–2020)[1][3] Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)[1][3][4][5] Thrasymachus...
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  • to prevent. This view has been widely discussed, for example by Judith Jarvis Thomson. In 1992, he was the John Locke Lecturer at the University of Oxford...
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  • Chisholm, Jaakko Hintikka, Martha C. Nussbaum, Derek Parfit, and Judith Jarvis Thomson. The journal has published interviews with notable scholars such...
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  • Ramsey, The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics, 1970 Judith Jarvis Thomson, "A Defense of Abortion", 1971 Don Marquis, "Why Abortion is Immoral"...
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  • her well-known and influential article "A Defense of Abortion", Judith Jarvis Thomson argues that abortion is in some circumstances permissible even if...
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  • Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Pittsburgh Penguins). Judith Jarvis Thomson, 91, American moral philosopher. Takao Yaguchi, 81, Japanese manga...
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