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Judith Jarvis Thomson (October 4, 1929 – November 20, 2020) 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.
A Defense of Abortion is a moral philosophy essay by Judith Jarvis Thomson first published in Philosophy & Public Affairs in 1971. Granting for the sake of argument that the fetus has a right to life, Thomson uses thought experiments to argue that the right to life does not include, entail, or imply the right to use someone else's body to survive and that induced abortion is therefore morally ...
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Later dubbed "the trolley problem" by Judith Jarvis Thomson in a 1976 article that catalyzed a large literature, the subject refers to the meta-problem of why different judgments are arrived at in particular instances. Philosophers Judith Thomson, [2] [3] Frances Kamm, [4] and Peter Unger have also analysed the dilemma extensively. [5]
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity is a 1996 book by Gilbert Harman and Judith Jarvis Thomson, in which Harman tries to provide a defense of moral relativism and Thomson tries to refute it. Reception
Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson is a 2001 book edited by Alex Byrne, Robert C. Stalnaker and Ralph Wedgwood in which the authors discuss moral and political issues, foundations of moral theory, metaphysics and epistemology. The book is dedicated to Judith Jarvis Thomson. [1]
An argument first presented by Judith Jarvis Thomson in her 1971 paper "A Defense of Abortion" states that even if the fetus is a person and has a right to life, abortion is morally permissible because a woman has a right to control her own body and its life-support functions (i.e. the right to life does not include the right to be kept alive ...
Judith Butler, "Performative Acts and Gender Constitution", 1988; Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, 1990; Thomas Sowell, Black Rednecks and White Liberals, 2006; Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity, 2005; Harvey Mansfield, Manliness, 2006; Sara Ahmed, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life, 2012