"Many women of my generation, in many fields, had good reason to be grateful to the women's colleges."
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Philosophers from the United StatesWomen from the United StatesWomen born in the 1920sMassachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
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Judith Jarvis Thomson, "How it Was" Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association vol. 87, November 2013, pgs. 109-121
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Judith Jarvis Thomson
(October 4 1929 - November 20, 2020) was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. Her work ranges across a variety of fields, but she is most known for her work regarding the thought experiment titled the trolley problem and her writings on abortion. She is credited with naming, developing, and initiating the extensive literature on the trolley problem first posed by Philippa Foot which has found a wide range use since..
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