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(1929-2020) Author. Judith Jarvis Thomson was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Judith Jarvis Thomson

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline

Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Thomson studied at Columbia University.

1929

BIRTH

Judith Jarvis was born in Manhattan, New York, on October 4, 1929.

1930

RESIDENCE

As a child, Ms. Thomson lived in the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York, in the 1930s 40s.

1950

OTHER

Ms. Thomson received a degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1950.

1977

LITWORK

Acts and Other Events
Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press
0801410509 / 978-0801410505
Nonfiction.

1986

LITWORK

Rights, Restitution, and Risk: Essays in Moral Theory
Cambridge, Massaachusetts: Harvard University Press
0674769805 / 978-0674769809
Nonfiction.

1987

LITWORK

On Being and Saying: Essays for Richard Cartwright
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press
978-0262200639
Nonfiction.

1990

LITWORK

The Realm of Rights
Harvard University Press
0674749480 / 978-0674749481
Nonfiction.

2001

LITWORK

Goodness and Advice
Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press
978-1-4008-2472-4
Nonfiction.

2020

DEATH

Judith Jarvis Thomson died at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on November 20, 2020.

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