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Judith Jarvis Thomson

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Judith Jarvis Thomson
Philosophy
#172
World Rank
#428
Historical Rank
#76
USA Rank
Ethics
#33
World Rank
#44
Historical Rank
#15
USA Rank
Logic
#237
World Rank
#498
Historical Rank
#102
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Judith Jarvis Thomson 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. She is credited with naming, developing, and initiating the extensive literature on the trolley problem first posed by Philippa Foot which has found a wide range use since. Thomson also published a paper titled "A Defense of Abortion", which makes the argument that the procedure is morally permissible even if it is assumed that a fetus is a person with a right to life. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

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