Philippa foot, who died Oct. 3, her 90th birthday, helped transform the field of moral philosophy. Carefully attending to the way we actually reason about what we should do, she joined her friends ...

The Women Are Up to Something. By Benjamin Lipscomb. Oxford University Press; 326 pages; $27.95 and £20 “THERE HAS never been a woman who could do philosophy as she can.” So said Philippa Foot of her ...

Tracing the transformation of moral philosophy through the friendships of four utterly unique women who gathered around Oxford in the mid-20th century requires getting those four people into a room ...

Four women mapped “a route for themselves where none existed” and changed the field of ethics, according to this refreshing group biography. Lipscomb, a philosophy professor at Houghton College, ...

Two papers I love: “Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives” and “Moral beliefs.” Two papers I love: “Morality as a system of hypothetical imperatives” and “Moral beliefs.” In “Moral Beliefs” ...