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3 october 2010 madrid , spain bernard john mcdowell , williams , candace vogler , michael slote , owston ferry , lincolnshire 20th century analytic philosophy ludwig aquinas , thomas nagel wittgenstein , g.e.m. anscombe , aristotle , thomas ethics , philosophy of mind trolley problem , virtue ethics 3 october 1920 philippa foot
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philippa foot

philippa ruth foot -lrb- ; née bosanquet ; 3 october 1920 3 october 2010 -rrb- was a british philosopher , most notable for her works in ethics .
she was one of the founders of contemporary virtue ethics , inspired by the ethics of aristotle .
her later career marked a significant change in view from her work in the 1950s and '60s , and may be seen as an attempt to modernize aristotelian ethical theory , to show that it is adaptable to a contemporary world view , and thus , that it could compete with such popular theories as modern deontological and utilitarian ethics .
some of her work was crucial in the re-emergence of normative ethics within analytic philosophy , especially her critique of consequentialism and of non-cognitivism .
a familiar example is the continuing discussion of an example of hers referred to as the trolley problem .
foot 's approach was influenced by the later work of wittgenstein , although she rarely dealt explicitly with materials treated by him .
