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Judith Jarvis Thomson

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Gender Female
Death3 years ago
Date of birth October 4,1929
Zodiac sign Libra
Born New York
United States
EraContemporary philosophy
Regions Western philosophy
Job Physician
Philosopher
Education Columbia University
Hunter College High School
Barnard College
Books Normativity
Goodness and Advice
The Realm of Rights
Rights, restitution, and risk
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Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1991-2000
A Defense of Abortion
Spous James Thomson
SchoolAnalytic philosophy
Notabl ideaThe trolley problem, ethics concerning abortion
DiedCambridge
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died November 20,2020
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada
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Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion.

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