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    Judith Jarvis Thomson — Carmelics
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    Judith Jarvis Thomson

    Judith Jarvis Thomson

    contemporaryAnalytic Philosophy

    1929 – 2020

    Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American moral philosopher at MIT, renowned for her work in ethics and metaphysics. She is best known for her influential defense of abortion rights through the 'violinist' thought experiment and her extensive contributions to the theory of rights, action theory, and moral philosophy.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Developed the famous violinist thought experiment in 'A Defense of Abortion' (1971)

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    Made major contributions to the trolley problem literature, distinguishing killing from letting die

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    Authored 'The Realm of Rights' (1990), a systematic theory of rights

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    Contributed to action theory and the metaphysics of events in 'Acts and Other Events' (1977)

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    One of the first women to receive tenure in philosophy at a major US university (MIT)

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    Justice & Punishment

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    Gender inequality persists in access to elite positions in the economy and government.

    Rights & Liberty

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    Gender inequality persists in access to elite positions in the economy and government.

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    Philosophers speculating about women ought to take into account the obstacles to women's opportunities for subjecthood and choice created by those who constructed an oppressive situation for women.

    Moral Responsibility

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    Philosophers speculating about women ought to take into account the obstacles to women's opportunities for subjecthood and choice created by those who constructed an oppressive situation for women.

    Modality & Possibility

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    The apparent multiplication of word-tokens from a single inscription based on different readings is not a genuine mereological multiplication of entities

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