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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...
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  • Philippa Foot "Free Will As Involving Determinism," The Philosophical Review, vol LXVI, (1957). R. E. Hobart on Information Philosopher Philippa Foot...
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  • ethical terms have a function that is both emotive and descriptive." Philippa Foot adopts a moral realist position, criticizing the idea that when evaluation...
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  • educationalist Philippa Foot (1920–2010), British philosopher Philippa Forrester (born 1968), British television presenter and producer Philippa Gregory (born...
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    abortion and the doctrine of double effect by the English philosopher Philippa Foot. Later dubbed "the trolley problem" by Judith Jarvis Thomson in a 1976...
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    British philosopher Philippa Foot, who was a fellow at Oxford before holding several professorships in the States. Philippa Foot clearly had a sense of...
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    Folsom Esther Cleveland Ruth Cleveland Lewis F. Allen Rose Cleveland Philippa Foot Whittaker Chambers Alger Hiss Lloyd Paul Stryker Quinn, Sandra L.; Kanter...
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  • if trying to give the moral 'ought' a magic force. —Philippa Foot The British ethicist Philippa Foot elaborates that morality does not seem to have any...
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    clearance. Foot was very distantly related to his namesake Michael Foot. He was at one time married to the British philosopher Philippa Foot (née Bosanquet)...
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  • of moral philosophy. Philippa Foot defended naturalist moral realism and contributed several essays attacking other theories. Foot introduced the famous...
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    Richard (1897–1974), and Francis (1903–1995). British philosopher Philippa Foot (1920–2010) was their granddaughter. Ruth contracted diphtheria on January...
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  • Wittgenstein Oxford G. E. M. Anscombe J. L. Austin Michael Dummett Antony Flew Philippa Foot Peter Geach Paul Grice R. M. Hare Alasdair MacIntyre Derek Parfit Gilbert...
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  • Cleveland (grandfather) Rose Cleveland (aunt) Richard F. Cleveland (brother) Ruth Cleveland (sister) Esther Cleveland (sister) Philippa Foot (niece)...
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  • (1919–1999), Elizabeth Anscombe (1919–2001), Mary Midgley (1919–2018), Philippa Foot (1920–2010), Mary Warnock (1924–2019), Joyce Mitchell Cook (1933–2015...
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    virtue theory of happiness or eudaimonia throughout his published work. Philippa Foot, published a collection of essays in 1978 entitled Virtues and Vices...
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  • director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck; Michael Dummett, Gareth Evans, Philippa Foot, Christopher Peacocke, Gilbert Ryle, and Peter Strawson, philosophers;...
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  • experienced a resurgence thanks to philosophers such as Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Martha Nussbaum. There are many other schools...
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  • Revolution, Falley made guns for the Continental Army at an armory at the foot of Tekoa Mountain in Montgomery, Massachusetts. He was for many years superintendent...
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    studied and began his academic career at the university. Likewise, Philippa Foot, who mentioned the trolley problem, studied and taught at Somerville...
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    Cleveland (daughter) Richard F. Cleveland (son) Francis Cleveland (son) Philippa Foot (granddaughter) Richard Falley Cleveland (father) Rose Cleveland (sister)...
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  • following generation of philosophers, particularly Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, John McDowell, and Bernard Williams. She sent copies of her earlier...
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  • initiating the extensive literature on the trolley problem first posed by Philippa Foot which has found a wide range use since. Thomson also published a paper...
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  • essential to all ethical thinking. However, contemporary philosophers like Philippa Foot have called into question the validity of such assumptions. Others,...
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  • instead promoting virtue ethics. Other notable virtue ethicists included Philippa Foot and Alasdair MacIntyre. The latter combined it with communitarianism...
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  • This approach was then furthered and popularized by figures such as Philippa Foot, Alasdair MacIntyre, Rosalind Hursthouse as well as Paul Ricoeur. The...
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    practical wisdom. Hursthouse was a student of Elizabeth Anscombe and Philippa Foot, from whom she draws inspiration for much of her work in virtue ethics...
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  • campaigner and author Paul Foot (comedian) (born 1973), English comedian Philippa Foot (1920–2010), British philosopher Robert Foot (1889–1973), director general...
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    Wittgenstein Oxford G. E. M. Anscombe J. L. Austin Michael Dummett Antony Flew Philippa Foot Peter Geach Paul Grice R. M. Hare Alasdair MacIntyre Derek Parfit Gilbert...
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  • Wittgenstein Oxford G. E. M. Anscombe J. L. Austin Michael Dummett Antony Flew Philippa Foot Peter Geach Paul Grice R. M. Hare Alasdair MacIntyre Derek Parfit Gilbert...
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    been Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Hodgkin, Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Vera Brittain and Dorothy L. Sayers. It began admitting men in 1994...
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