People

Judith Jarvis Thomson 1929- United States

Questions of

rights, abortion, ethanasia

Reading

• J. J. Thomson and Gerald Dworkin, eds. Ethics. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
  
  
• Acts and Other Events.
  Series: Contemporary Philosophy. Ithaca/London: Cornell University Press, 1977.
  
  
• Self-Defense and Rights.
  Series: The Lindley Lecture, 1976. New York: University of Kansas Philosophy Department, 1977.
  

   

• J. J. Thomson and William Parent. Rights, Restitution and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory.
  Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1986, 1991.
  

• On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright.
  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (cloth) 1987.
  

• The Realm of Rights.
  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
  
  
• Gilbert Harman and J. J. Thomson Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity.
  Series: Great Debates in Philosophy. Oxford, UK; Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1996.
  

• "A Defense of Abortion."
  Philosophy and Public Affairs 1, 1 (71): 47-66.
  
• "Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem."
  Philosophical Problems of Death. Richard Wasserstrom and Paul Edwards, eds. Special Issue: The Monist 59, 2 (Apr 76). LaSalle, IL: Hegeler Institute, 1976.
  
• "A Defense of Abortion."
  Moral Philosophy: An Introduction. Paul F. Fink, comp. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub. Co., 1977.
  
• "A Defense of Abortion."
  Philosophy and Women. Sharon Bishop and Marjorie Weinzweig, eds. Series: The Wadsworth Series in Social Philosophy. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1979.
  
• "Preferential Hiring."
  Philosophy and Women. Sharon Bishop and Marjorie Weinzweig, eds. Series: The Wadsworth Series in Social Philosophy. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1979.
  
• "Ruminations on an Account of Personal Identity."
  On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright. Judith Jarvis Thomson, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987.

   

• "Morality and Bad Luck."
  Metaphilosophy 20, 3/4 (JUL 1 89): 203. 
  
  
• "The No Good Reason Thesis."
  Social Philosophy & Policy 7, 1 (Fall 89): 1.
  

• "Ideology and Faculty Selection."
  Law and Contemporary Problems 53, 3 (Sumr 90): 155. 
  

• "The No Good Reason Thesis."
  Foundations of Moral and Political Philosophy. Ellen Frankel Paul, ed. Oxford, UK/Cambridge, MA: B. Blackwell for the Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, 1990.
  

• "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Criminal Defenses."
  University of Western Australia Law Review 21, 2 (DEC 1 91): 279. 
  

• "Self-Defense."
  Philosophy & Public Affairs 20, 4 (Fall 91): 283. 
  

• "On Some Ways in Which a Thing can be Good."
  The Good Life and the Human Good. Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds. Series: Social Philosophy & Policy 9, 2 (Sumr 92): 96. 
  

• "Morality and Bad Luck."
  Moral Luck. Daniel Statman, ed. Series: Ethical Theory. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
  

• "The Trolley Problem."
  Crimes and Punishments. Jules L. Coleman, ed. Series: Philosophy of Law; 4. New York: Garland, 1994.
  

• "Abortion."
  [Boston Review] 20, 3 (Jan 94/Dec 95): 96.
  

• "Response to 'Abortion' Replies."
  [Boston Review] 20, 4 (Oct/Nov 95): 96.
  

• "Some Ruminations on Rights."
  Rights and Their Foundations. Jules L. Coleman, ed. Series: Philosophy of Law; 2. New York: Garland Pub., 1994.
  

• "The Right to Privacy."
  Crime and Punishment: Philosophic Explorations. Michael J. Gorr and Sterling Harwood, eds. Series: The Jones and Bartlett Series in Philosophy. Boston: Jones and Bartlett, 1995.