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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]
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 ...
Along with Judith Jarvis Thomson, she is credited with inventing the trolley problem. [1] [2] She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.
The trolley problem is a thought experiment about the moral difference between doing and allowing harm. Thought experiments are used as a method in ethics to decide between competing theories. They usually present an imagined situation involving an ethical dilemma and explore how people's intuitions of right and wrong change based on specific ...
Whereas killing involves intervention, letting die involves withholding care (for example, in passive euthanasia), [1] [2] or other forms of inaction (such as in the Trolley problem). Also in medical ethics there is a moral distinction between euthanasia and letting die. Legally, patients often have a right to reject life-sustaining care, in ...
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.
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 ...