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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 ...
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.
The psychology of learning refers to theories and research on how individuals learn. There are many theories of learning. Some take on a more behaviorist approach which focuses on inputs and reinforcements. [1] [2] [3] Other approaches, such as neuroscience and social cognition, focus more on how the brain's organization and structure influence ...
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]
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]
Another thought experiment, proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson, examines the moral implications of abortion by imagining a situation in which a person gets connected without their consent to an ill violinist. In this scenario, the violinist dies if the connection is severed, similar to how a fetus dies in the case of abortion.
1998-99 (Princeton): Judith Jarvis Thomson—"Goodness and Advice" 1998-99 (Oxford): Sidney Verba—"Representative Democracy and Democratic Citizens: Philosophical and Empirical Understandings" 1998-99 (UC Davis): Richard White—"The Problem with Purity" 1999-2000 (Stanford): Jared Diamond—"Ecological Collapses of Pre-industrial Societies"
"A Defense of Abortion" from Philosophy & Public Affairs, Vol. 1, no. 1, Judith Jarvis Thomson (Fall 1971) [317] "After the Death of God the Father" from Commonweal, Mary Daly (1971) [318] "Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School", Chicago Women's Liberation Union (1971) [319] "And Jill Came Tumbling After" from Womankind (1971) [320]