Judith Jarvis Thomson

Judith Jarvis Thomson (* 1929 ) is an American philosopher and professor emeritus of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who has made a name for herself primarily as a moral philosopher and metaphysicist .

Life

Thomson attended Hunter College Hight School in New York and later worked mostly at MIT . She was best known for her original defense of abortion and her discussion of the trolley problem . But also of importance for the philosophical debate is its theoretical discussion of moral rights.

Her philosophical contributions can be attributed to the areas of action theory , normative ethics , metaethics or the discussion of personal identity .

In 1989 she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , in 2016 as a foreign member of the British Academy , and in 2019 to the American Philosophical Society .

Fonts (selection)

Essays

A Defense of Abortion. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs , Vol. 1 (1971), ISSN 0048-3915
The time of a killing. In: The Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 68 (1971), Issue 5, pp. 115-132, ISSN 0022-362X
Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem. In: The Monist , Vol. 59 (1976), No. 2, pp. 204-217, ISSN 0026-9662
Self-defense. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs , Vol. 20 (1991), Issue 4, pp. 283-310, ISSN 0048-3915
On Some Ways in Which a Thing Can Be Good. In: Social Philosophy and Policy , Vol. 9 (1992), Issue 2, pp. 96-117, ISSN 0265-0525
People and their bodies. In: Jonathan Dancy (Ed.): Reading Parfit . Blackwell, Oxford 1997, pp. 202-229, ISBN 0-631-16871-0

Books

Acts and Other Events. Cornell University Press, Ithaca 1977, ISBN 0-8014-1050-9 (Contemporary Philosophy)
The Realm of Rights. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1990, ISBN 0-674-74948-0 .
together with Gilbert Harman : Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity. Blackwell, Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-631-19209-3 .
Goodness and Advice. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2001, ISBN 0-691-11473-0 .

Web links

Judith Jarvis Thomson's website at MIT
Texts by Judith Jarvis Thomson on Philpapers
Literature by and about Judith Jarvis Thomson in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

^ Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs (1971); see. Debra Satz : Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2010.
^ Judith Jarvis Thomson: Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem. In: The Monist , 1976.
^ Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Realm of Rights. Harvard University Press 1990; see. Leif Wenar : Rights. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Thomson, Judith Jarvis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1929

[1] Judith Jarvis Thomson: A Defense of Abortion. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs (1971); see. Debra Satz : Feminist Perspectives on Reproduction and the Family. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2010.

[2] Judith Jarvis Thomson: Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem. In: The Monist , 1976.

[3] Judith Jarvis Thomson: The Realm of Rights. Harvard University Press 1990; see. Leif Wenar : Rights. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2011.