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	eWorld: verbal intercourse: Refuting Judith Jarvis Thomson
		Thomson uses cunning logic illustrations to support her views on the right to life, but she is negligent when it comes to addressing the specifics of how her principle integrates with the actual practice of abortion.
		Thomson wishes to show that the right to life does not include the right to be given the means necessary for survival.
		Thomson establishes that the woman's right to the use of her body is a more stringent right than the right not to be killed, but then her conclusion that this makes abortion permissible seems to ignore the distinctions that must be drawn between the right to not be killed and the right to kill.
	ericrichardson.com /verbal/thomson (1176 words)

	Judith Jarvis Thomson: 'A Defence of Abortion' - Interim, Feb 2004
		Thomson believes that she has constructed a similitude that perfectly parallels the case in which a pregnant woman is yoked to her unwanted child for the same length of time.
		Thomson supposes that the violinist and the victim are unrelated.
		Thomson's defence of abortion, is, in itself, a significant contribution to the culture of death.
	www.theinterim.com /2004/feb/05judith.html (1256 words)

	Ethics Updates - Abortion & Ethics
		Among philosophers, there are several key essays that have set the stage for the philosophical discussion of abortion.
		The most reprinted essay in contemporary philosophy is probably Judith Jarvis Thomson's "A Defense of Abortion," which originally appeared in the inaugural issue of Philosophy and Public Affairs, Vol.
		Thomson's article has elicited a number of replies; one of the more recent and insightful of these is John Martin Fisher, "Abortion and Self-Determination," Journal of Social Philosophy, Vol.
	ethics.sandiego.edu /Applied/Abortion (2776 words)

	Free Essay Judith Thomson's take on Abortion, It is the Woman's Choice
		Thomson explains that "most opposition to abortion relies on the premise that the fetus is a human being.from the moment of conception" (153).
		Thomson thinks this is a premise that is strongly argued for, although she also feels it is argued for "not well" (153).
		Thomson asks the reader to imagine a situation in which she was extremely ill and was going to die unless Henry Fonda came and placed his cool hand on her brow.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27294 (1775 words)

	.:: d r i v e l . c a - on the permissibility of abortion ::.
		Judith Jarvis Thomson clearly outlines a set of circumstances in which abortion is permissible.
		Thomson argues that in the case of faulty equipment, the woman is not responsible for the resulting pregnancy.
		Thomson argues for the permissibility of abortion on the grounds of endangering the life of the mother, the rights of the fetus, and moral obligations.
	drivel.ca /writing/abortion.html (1994 words)

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		Thomson’s project is to challenge the following notion: if a fetus is a person, then abortion is never morally permissible.
		She grants for the sake of argument that a fetus is a person, before arguing that what she calls a “plausible sounding argument” cannot justify the notion that abortion is never morally permissible.
		Thomson argues that abortion – but NOT securing the death of the unborn child -- is permissible in some cases.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~lkeleher/Abortion.Thomson.htm (500 words)

	Doris Gordon -- Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomson asks the reader "to imagine" that you "wake up in the morning and find yourself back to back in bed with an unconscious violinist" who has a fatal kidney ailment.
		In Thomson's analogy the sequence is: The violinist develops a fatal kidney problem, his friends go to his aid; they capture an innocent stranger and plug the violinist into him; the stranger unplugs himself, which lets the violinist die.
		As Thomson correctly sees, the mere biological relationship of parents to their children is insufficient to establish a "special responsibility" to them.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /SFL/doris_gordon_--_thomson.htm (1952 words)

	Judith Jarvis Thomson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The scenario is meant to be analogous to at least some cases of pregnancy and is often taken (and is taken by Thomson herself) to support the moral permissibility of induced abortion.
		In this paper, Thomson argues on the basis of the violinist thought experiment that "the right to life consists not in the right not to be killed, but rather in the right not to be killed unjustly".
		And is it?" Thomson's article defends abortion rights and functions primarily as an argument by analogy in regards to the idea of mother/fetus consanguinity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Judith_Jarvis_Thomson (412 words)

	Introduction to Ethics: Lecture Notes: University of West Georgia - Robert Lane, Ph.D. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomson says that some (not all) pregnancies are analogous to the case of the violinist.
		In effect, Thomson is rejecting the following claim made by Marquis: in order for the mother's right to self-determination to override her obligation not to destroy the fetus, the loss she suffers if she remains pregnant must be greater than the loss suffered by the fetus if it is destroyed.
		But Thomson gives other analogies to support the claim that it is morally permissible for a woman to abort a pregnancy that she had attempted to prevent with contraceptives.
	www.westga.edu /~rlane/ethics/lecture14_abortion6.html (1271 words)

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		Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value -- that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expressing an attitude or feeling.
		Thomson makes the striking argument that this familiar theory must ultimately fall because its basic requirement -- that people should act to bring about the "most good" -- is meaningless.
		Judith Jarvis Thomson is Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
	www.princeton.edu /~uchv/publications/jjt.html (374 words)

	Virtue Ethics without Character Traits
		Thomson flirts with a utilitarian virtue ethics in suggesting that the true moral virtues might be distinguished from the all-purpose ones like courage in that "the fact of there being people who possess the virtues is good for us" (282).
		Thomson's way of explaining moral requirement also avoids the problem that a person might be in a situation that a fully virtuous person would never be in.
		Maybe Thomson thinks we have a better grip on what it is for someone to act unjustly or to be inconsiderate on a particular occasion and Ross thinks we have a better grip on what is involved in the prima facie duty to be honest or benevolent.
	www.princeton.edu /~harman/Papers/Thomson.html (4350 words)

	The Unsound Argument » Blog Archive » “A Defense of Abortion” Judith Jarvis Thomson
		Thomson argues that even if one grants the fetus a serious right to life it does not follow that aboriton is morally impermissable.
		One Response to ““A Defense of Abortion” Judith Jarvis Thomson”
		Judith Jarvis Thompson has argued[6] that even if we assume for the moment that the fetus has a right to life, a pro-abortion position can still be maintained (My notes on her article are not completely entered into that post, please bear with me).
	unsoundargument.com /ethics/a-defense-of-abortion-judith-jarvis-thomson (711 words)

	Amazon.com: The Realm of Rights: Books: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Thomson works her way through to a comprehensive account of what our rights are (and aren't: she is wonderfully resistant to rights extravaganzas).
		Thomson imports Hohfeld's taxonomy into her discussion of moral rights, in the process subjecting it to exacting scrutiny (and some tweezing), and uses it as a foundation for a thorough analysis of just what is involved in possessing a "right."
		Thomson's foundational claim, as explained in an introduction that alone is worth the price of the entire book, is that we really do have rational insight into necessary moral truths; she therefore stands firmly in the rationalist-intuitionist line of succession that Rand rejected.
	www.amazon.com /Realm-Rights-Judith-Jarvis-Thomson/dp/0674749480 (1569 words)

	Talking Leaves Books on the Web
		Judith Jarvis Thomson's work on ethics is refreshing, distinctive, and beautiful.
		Thomson's theory is vaguely Kantian, in that it is concerned with objective ethical laws - what one ought to do - and is not a theory of human goals and desires.
		But Thomson's theory is not at all Kantian in its resolute pluralism about the ways that things may be good, and in its pragmatic stance that rights can always be overridden in some situations.
	www.tleavesbooks.com /aaronpicks.htm (1053 words)

	Goodness and Advice -- Judith Jarvis Thomson
		Thomson begins by testing the erstwhile moral claim, "Act always to bring about the most good in the world," and uncovers cracks in the ethical theories of utilitarianism and consequentialism.
		In her introduction, Gutmann explains Thomson's position, "Good is always good in someway, in some context, for some beings." Thomson proposes that the consequences of our actions are important but should not be the sole criteria for judging what we do.
		Thomson provides a coherent and concise argument that draws on hypothetical and real-world examples to advance a compelling theory of morality.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0691086737 (569 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Realm of Rights by Judith Jarvis Thomson
		Thomson says that the question what it is to have a right precedes the question which rights we have, and she therefore begins by asking why our having rights is a morally significant fact about us.
		Thomson asks what those other things are that may or may not be equal, and describes the tradeoffs that relieve us of the requirement to accord a right.
		The second class includes rights that issue from promises and consent, and Thomson shows how they are generated; she also argues that property rights issue only from a legitimate legal system, so that the second class includes them as well.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/THOREA.html (352 words)

	Violinist (Thought Experiment) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In her introduction to her "Famous Violinist Problem", Thomson notes that much of the inadequate debate on abortion was getting lost within the issue of whether the fetus is, in fact, a person or whether it is, simply, a mass of tissue.
		Judith Jarvis Thomson provided one of the most striking and effective thought experiments in the moral realm.
		In the opinion of some critics, Thomson failed to note a key difference between the thought experiment and the realities that she applied it to.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violinist_(Thought_Experiment) (868 words)

	Harvard University Press: Rights, Restitution, and Risk : Essays in Moral Theory by Judith Jarvis Thomson
		In a set of vivid examples, stories, and cases Judith Thomson shows just how wide an array of moral considerations bears on all but the simplest of problems.
		She is a philosophical analyst of the highest caliber who can tease a multitude of implications out of the story of a mere bit of eavesdropping.
		Thomson's essays determinedly confront the most difficult questions: What is it to have a moral right to life, or any other right?
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/THORIG.html?show=catalogcopy (227 words)

	"Normativity", A Public Lecture By Prof. Judith Jarvis Thomson, MIT (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Judith Jarvis Thomson has made seminal contributions in the fields of applied ethics, moral theory, and metaethics.
		Thomson is an innovator in the study of moral thinking and explores its long-dominant themes.
		Thomson has advanced the current thinking on the philosophies of science, language, and the mind.
	www.mitcnc.org /Events_Print.asp?EventID=1093 (163 words)

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		Concession: For purposes of argument, Thomson concedes that every fetus (conceptus) is a person.
		Note: Up until Thomson wrote her article, almost everyone thought the controversy over abortion would be over, once we accepted (3).
		According to J.J. Thomson, killing the fetus is unjust if the pregnant woman has given the fetus a right to use her body.
	web.nmsu.edu /~jvessel/Philosophy/thomson.html (406 words)

	A Defense of Abortion Articles Essays -- A Defense of Abortion by Judith Jarvis Thomson
		In her article Thomson starts off by giving antiabortionists the benefit of the doubt that fetuses are human persons.
		Also she states that someone’s right to life is stronger than another person’s autonomy and that the only conflict with a fetuses right to life is a mother’s right to autonomy.
		Then Thomson precedes to attacks the premise that one’s right to autonomy can be more important to another’s right to life in certain situations.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=93837 (1690 words)

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		Thomson begins by lamenting the prevalence of the idea that there is an unbridgeable gap between fact and value--that to say something is good, for example, is not to state a fact, but to do something more like expressing an attitude or feeling.
		Thomson makes the striking argument that this familiar theory must ultimately fail because its basic requirement--that people should act to bring about the "most good"--is meaningless.
		The book, which originated in the Tanner lectures that Thomson delivered at Princeton University's Center for Human Values in 1999, includes two chapters by Thomson ("Goodness" and "Advice"), provocative comments by four prominent scholars--Martha Nussbaum, Jerome Schneewind, Philip Fisher, and Barbara Herrnstein Smith--and replies by Thomson to those comments.
	www.spc.uchicago.edu /orgs/poltheory/thompson.html (294 words)

	CSLI Calendar, 19 May 1994, vol.9:29
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		Thomson was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1989, was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1988, and was President of the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division in 1992--93.
		She is the author of _Acts and Other Events_ (1977), _Rights, Restitution, and Risk_ (1986), and _The Realm of Rights_ (1990), as well as many extremely influential essays in moral philosophy, philosophy of law, and philosophy of action.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /Archive/calendar/1993-94/msg00028.html (3006 words)

	Brainiac - The Boston Globe
		Chris is absolutely right to praise Judith Jarvis Thomson's rightly famous abortion paper.
		But Thomson's brilliant move was this: let's just assume the fetus does have a right to life.
		Her argument reconceives the fetus as a famous violinist -- i.e., you might think, a particularly socially valuable human being.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/brainiac/2006/11/thomson_continu.html (323 words)

	Judith Jarvis Thomson's Defense of Abortion
		Thomson will attempt to show that premise 8 is false; that is, it is not necessarily true that one person's right to life outweighs another person's right to control what happens to her body when these rights come into conflict.
		Premise 1 is usually going to be true.
		Thomson’s next two cases can usefully be seen as a challenge to premise 2.
	home.myuw.net /himma/phil241/trans5.htm (638 words)

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