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Obituary

Philippa Foot (1920-2010)

Lawrence Solum on one of the greats of moral philosophy.

Philippa Foot, for many years associated with Somerville College, Oxford and also with the University of California Los Angeles, passed away on October 3, 2010. She was born exactly ninety years earlier, on October 3, 1920. Her mother, Esther Cleveland, was the daughter of the American President, Grover Cleveland; her father was William Sidney Bence Bosanquet. Her marriage to the historian M.R.

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