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Philippa Foot

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Also known as Philippa Ruth Bosanquet Foot, Philippa Ruth Bosanquet, Philippa Ruth Foot, Philippa Bosanquet

English philosopher (1920–2010)

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Philippa Ruth Foot (1920–2010) was a British philosopher, ethicist, and university teacher. Born in Owston Ferry, she was educated at Somerville College and served as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Foot received the award of Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focused on ethics, philosophy of mind, aesthetics, and philosophy within the contemporary period. She was influenced by Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Foot was employed by the University of California, Los Angeles. She was married to M. R. D. Foot and identified as an atheist. Her written works include *Virtues and reasons*, *Justice and Charity*, *Die Natur des Guten*, *Beyond Good and Evil (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)*, and *Textes Cles de Metaethique*. She died in Oxford.

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Person · Open Library

Works
18

Top works

  • Textes Cles de Metaethique
  • Beyond Good and Evil (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)
  • Justice and Charity
  • Die Natur des Guten
  • Virtues and reasons

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Group
Origin
United States
Active from
2004

Discography

Discogs

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Listeners
8
Total plays
14

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5 total works indexed

  1. A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence

    · 2003 · cited 2,362x

  2. Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    · 2018 · cited 2,240x

  3. ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed

    · 2016 · cited 1,877x

  4. Direct multiplexed measurement of gene expression with color-coded probe pairs

    · 2008 · cited 1,838x

  5. T cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus

    · 1987 · cited 1,549x

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Quotes

  • “The whole of moral philosophy, as it is now widely taught, rests on a contrast between statements of fact and evaluations. … If a man is given good evidence for a factual conclusion he cannot just refuse to accept the conclusion on the ground that in his scheme of things this evidence is not evidence at all. With evaluations, however, it is different. An evaluation is not connected logically with the factual statements on which it is based.”
  • “We will be asked how, on our theory, justice can be a virtue and injustice a vice, since it will surely be difficult to show that any man whatsoever must need to be just as he needs the use of his hands and eyes, or needs prudence, courage and temperance? Before answering this question I shall argue that if it cannot be answered then justice can no longer be recommended as a virtue.”

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Key facts

Born
Philippa Ruth Bosanquet , ( 1920-10-03 ) 3 October 1920, Owston Ferry , Lincolnshire , England
Died
3 October 2010 (2010-10-03) (aged 90), Oxford , England
Alma mater
Somerville College, Oxford
Academic advisor
Elizabeth Anscombe
Era
20th-century philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy , Aretaic turn , Aristotelianism
Institutions
Somerville College, Oxford, UCLA
Main interests
Ethics , aesthetics
Notable ideas
Trolley problem , modern revival of virtue ethics , critique of non-cognitivism

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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.

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