Judith Jarvis Thomson

Judith Jarvis Thomson ( born 1929 ) is an American philosopher and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which has made mainly as Moralphilosophin and Metaphysikerin a name.

Thomson attended Hunter College Hight School in New York and later worked mostly at MIT. She was known especially for their original defense of abortion and for their discussion of the trolley problem. Also of importance for the philosophical debate but their theoretical discussion of moral rights.

Your philosophical contributions are attributable to, among other areas of action theory, normative ethics, meta-ethics, or the discussion of personal identity.

Texts

  • A Defense of Abortion. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs (1971).
  • The Time of a Killing. In: Journal of Philosophy ( 1971).
  • Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem. In: The Monist (1976).
  • Acts and Other Events. Cornell University Press 1977.
  • The Realm of Rights. Harvard University Press 1990.
  • Self-Defense. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs (1991).
  • On Some Ways in Which a Thing Can Be Good. In: Social Philosophy and Policy (1992).
  • People and their bodies. In Jonathan Dancy ( ed.) Reading Parfit. Blackwell 1997.
  • Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity. ( with Gilbert Harman ) Blackwell ( 1996).
  • Goodness and Advice. Princeton University Press, 2001.
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