Philippa Foot

Philippa Ruth Foot (1920-), (born Bosanquet) is a British philosopher, most notable for her works in ethics. She is one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics. Her work, especially her most recent work, may be seen as an attempt to modernize Aristotelian ethical theory, to show that it was adaptable to current issues, and thus that it could compete with such popular theories as modern deontological and utilitarian ethics. Some of her works were crucial in the re-emergence of normative ethics within analytic philosophy, especially her critique of consequentialism - a familiar example is the continuing discussion of her so-called "trolley problem".
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