Philippa Foot | Academic Influence

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Philippa Foot

Philosophy

#30

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#108

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Virtue Ethics

#2

World Rank

#2

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Ethics

#11

World Rank

#18

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Logic

#179

World Rank

#413

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Philosophy

Philippa Foot's Degrees

Bachelors Philosophy, Politics and Economics University of Oxford
PhD Philosophy University of Oxford

Why Is Philippa Foot Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Philippa Ruth Foot was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics. Her work was inspired by Aristotelian ethics. Along with Judith Jarvis Thomson, she is credited with inventing the trolley problem. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society. She was a granddaughter of the U.S. President Grover Cleveland.

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Philippa Foot's Published Works

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Published Works

The problem of abortion and the doctrine of double effect (1967) (1501)
Virtues and Vices (1983) (535)
Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives (1972) (352)
The Varieties of Goodness. (1965) (291)
Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (1978) (264)
Utilitarianism and the Virtues (1983) (259)
Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma (1983) (97)
Theories of ethics (1967) (94)
Reasons for Action and Desires (1972) (62)
Moral Dilemmas: and other topics in moral philosophy (2003) (55)
V—Moral Beliefs (1959) (46)
Does moral subjectivism rest on a mistake? (1995) (37)
The Grammar of Goodness (2003) (34)
Morality, Action, and Outcome (2002) (33)
Goodness and Choice (1961) (33)
Free Will Involving Determinism (1957) (32)
Killing and Letting Die (2002) (22)
Rationality and Goodness (2004) (22)
Are Moral Considerations Overriding (2002) (22)
Nietzsche's Immoralism (2002) (20)
Morality and Art (1970) (19)
Moral Dilemmas Revisited (2002) (17)
Nietzsche: The Revaluation of Values (2002) (14)
When Is a Principle a Moral Principle (1954) (14)
Rationality and Virtue (1994) (13)
The problem of abortion and negative and positive duty: a reply to James LeRoy Smith. (1978) (12)
Hume on Moral Judgement (1963) (11)
Hume’s Theory of the Passions (1963) (9)
Ethics and the Death Penalty (1990) (9)
Hart and Honore: Causation in the Law (1963) (8)
Symposium: When Is a Principle a Moral Principle? (1954) (7)
Modern Moral Philosophy: Rationality and Goodness (2004) (6)
‘Is Morality a System of Hypothetical Imperatives?’ A Reply to Mr. Holmes (1974) (5)
A Reply to Professor Frankena (1975) (5)
Approval and Disapproval (2002) (5)
Hume on Religion (1963) (4)
Hume’s Empiricism and Modern Empiricism (1963) (4)
Hume’s Place in Philosophy (1963) (4)
Peacocke on Wittgenstein and Experience (1983) (3)
The Philosopher's Defence Of Morality (1952) (3)
William Frankena’s Carus Lectures (1981) (2)
Locke, Hume, and Modern Moral Theory: (2002) (2)
Von Wright on Virtue (2002) (2)
Hume as a Historian (1963) (2)
Killing, Letting Die, and Euthanasia: A Reply to Holly Smith Goldman (1981) (1)
A Fresh Start (2001) (1)
Hume on Causation (1963) (1)
Happiness and Human Good (2001) (0)
Can An ‘Ought’ Be Derived From An ‘Is’? (2019) (0)
The Philosophy of Ernst Cassirer. Edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp. Volume VI in “The Library of Living Philosophers.” (The Library of Living Philosophers, Inc., Evanston. 1949. Pp. xviii + 936. Price $6.) (1951) (0)
Symposium: Goodness and Choice (1961) (0)
PHS volume 54 Cover and Front matter (2004) (0)
Title Moral judgment and virtue in the early period of Philippa Foot (2019) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2004) (0)
In Defense of the Hypothetical Imperative (1971) (0)
Nature and Judgment . By Justus buchler. (Columbia University Press. 1955. Pp. 210. 30s.) (1957) (0)
Transition to Human Beings (2001) (0)
Edinburgh Research Explorer Reasoning Naturally (2018) (0)

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