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Professor Judith Thomson

Normative theory (concerning particularly what makes a normative judgment true, whether moral or non-moral) and metaphysics (concerning particularly the theory of action, part-hood, causality, and identity across time)

Elected 2016

Year elected
2016
Subjects
Philosophy
Website
http://web.mit.edu/philosophy/thomson.html

Current post

Professor Emerita in Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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