Philippa Foot
(1920-2010)
English philosopher
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Philippa Ruth Foot FBA (née Bosanquet; 3 October 1920 – 3 October 2010) was an English philosopher and one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics, who was inspired by the ethics of Aristotle. She is credited (along with Judith Jarvis Thomson) with inventing the so-called 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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3 October 1920 Owston Ferry, Lincolnshire
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3 October 2010 (aged 90) Oxford, England
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