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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Philippa Foot

Philippa Ruth Foot was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics, who was inspired by the ethics of Aristotle. 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.

You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more. — © Philippa Foot
You ask a philosopher a question and after he or she has talked for a bit, you don't understand your question any more.
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