Philippa Foot
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1920-10-03
- Died
- 2010-10-03
- Works
- 18
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 8
- Total plays
- 14
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A DNA damage checkpoint response in telomere-initiated senescence
· 2003 · cited 2,334x
- Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome
· 2018 · cited 2,177x
- Direct multiplexed measurement of gene expression with color-coded probe pairs
· 2008 · cited 1,827x
- ROBIS: A new tool to assess risk of bias in systematic reviews was developed
· 2016 · cited 1,794x
- T cell tolerance by clonal elimination in the thymus
· 1987 · cited 1,549x
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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 3 October 1920
- Died
- 3 October 2010
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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
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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.