JUDITH JARVIS THOMSON

• Born: October 4, 1929
• Died: November 20, 2020
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Judith Jarvis Thomson was an American philosopher who studied and worked on ethics and metaphysics. She is credited with naming, developing, and initiating the extensive literature on the trolley problem first posed by Philippa Foot. She was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.