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Philippa Foot
English philosopher (1920-2010) · United Kingdom · Academics · Died at 90
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Something wrong?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.
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Lived 1920 to 2010 · aged 90
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