Normativity with Judith Jarvis Thomson

Judith Jarvis Thomson is widely recognized for her work in moral philosophy and metaphysics. In moral philosophy, Thomson has made significant contributions to its sub-fields of applied ethics, moral theory, and meta-ethics. Her studies in metaphysics have largely covered the ontology of events and the identity across time of people and other physical objects. She is currently working on the question of what it is for one event to cause another. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures" [5/2005] [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 9543]

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• philosophy
• metaphysics
• ethics
• Judith
• Jarvis
• Thomson

[r3em4]

@whatitduz23 Wait, what? When did she die? I'm not seeing anything about this on the internet.

[whatitduz23]

rip judith

[robbriancoleman]

@jp2feminist I think Thomson would reply to your question with one of her own. Is part of a toaster's function to be able to work in all countries with the same type of plug? Since, I'm assuming one would say, it is not, this means a toaster is not defective for not working in Italy, but that this fact can be accomodated for in Thomson's normative theory.

[robbriancoleman]

@hannahrichards0904 Do we really need to know the outcome of an action to know if the agent/object responsible is defective? We certainly need outcomes or consequences to PROVE that something is defective. But, say, a broken toaster's defectiveness is not dependent on whether or not it makes toast. This merely comes along for the ride. What makes a toaster defective or not is whether it CAN make toasted bread. This seems to me to be independent of outcomes, whilst producing them.

[Braves4321]

The intro music is badass.

[jp2feminist]

@carlyrose19 Thank you.

[carlyrose19]

@jp2feminist hmm very deep

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[plinden]

She sounds like 50s Oxford philosophy! Linguistic ordinary language philosophy.

[theyangist]

That would probably fall into one of those "unsuitable circumstances."