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Philippa Foot
Sign in to saveAlso known as Philippa Ruth Bosanquet Foot, Philippa Ruth Bosanquet, Philippa Ruth Foot, Philippa Bosanquet
English philosopher (1920–2010)
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- 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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ruth
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Owston Ferry
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Spouse
- M. R. D. Foot
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Somerville College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Field of work
- philosophy
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- date of birth
- 1920-10-03
- date of death
- 2010-10-03
- time period
- contemporary philosophy
- influenced by
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Encyclopedic overview
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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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