Primary Sources

When abbreviations are used to cite Foot’s works in the text, the abbreviation begins the bibliographic item below.

Foot’s principal essays are collected in the following two volumes.

• [MD] Moral Dilemmas and Other Topics in Moral Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. doi:10.1093/019925284X.001.0001. Includes:
  • 1970, “Morality and Art”, Proceedings of the British Academy, 56: 131–144; reprinted MD, 5–19.
  • 1983, “Moral Realism and Moral Dilemma”, The Journal of Philosophy, 80(7): 379–398; reprinted MD, 37–58. (Scholar)
  • 1984, “Killing and Letting Die”, in Jay L. Garfield and Patricia Hennessey (eds.), Abortion: Moral and Legal Perspectives, Amherst: University of Amherst Press; reprinted MD, 78–87. (Scholar)
  • 1985, “Morality, Action, and Outcome”, in Ted Honderich (ed.), Morality and Objectivity: A Tribute to J.L. Mackie, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, pp. 23–38; reprinted MD, 88–104. (Scholar)
  • 1989, “Von Wright on Virtue”, The Philosophy of Georg Henrik von Wright, P.A. Schilpp (ed.), Open Court Publishing Company; reprinted MD, 105–116. (Scholar)
• [VV] Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (first edition 1978). doi:10.1093/0199252866.001.0001. Includes:
  • 1958, “Moral Arguments”, Mind, 67(268): 502–513; reprinted VV, 96–109. doi:10.1093/mind/LXVII.268.502
  • 1959, “Moral Beliefs”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 59(1): 83–104; reprinted VV, 110–131. doi:10.1093/aristotelian/59.1.83 (Scholar)
  • 1961, “Goodness and Choice”, Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volumes, 35(1): 45–80, part I of a two part article with Alan Montefiore; reprinted VV, 132–147. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/35.1.45 (Scholar)
  • 1967, “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”, Oxford Review, 5: 5–15; reprinted VV, 19–32. (Scholar)
  • [MSHI] 1972, “Morality as a System of Hypothetical Imperatives”, The Philosophical Review, 81(3): 305–316; reprinted VV, 157–173 with a long footnote added. doi:10.2307/2184328. (Scholar)
  • 1975, “A Reply to Professor Frankena”, Philosophy, 50(194): 455–459; reprinted VV, 174–180. (Scholar)
  • 1977, “Euthanasia”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 6(2): 85–112; reprinted VV, 33–61. (Scholar)
  • 1978, “Virtues and Vices”, essay for this volume, VV, 1–18.

Foot has one monograph:

• [NG] Natural Goodness, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. doi:10.1093/0198235089.001.0001

Individual papers cited in the text:

• [RG] “Rationality and Goodness” in Modern Moral Philosophy, (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 54), Anthony O’Hear (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004: 1–14. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511550836.002 (Scholar)
• 1954, with Jonathan Harrison, “When is a Principle a Moral Principle?” (Symposium), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume), 28(1): 95–134. doi:10.1093/aristoteliansupp/28.1.95 (Scholar)

Secondary Literature

• Andreou, Chrisoula, 2006, “Getting on in a Varied World”, Social Theory and Practice, 32(1): 61–73. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract20063213 (Scholar)
• Annas, Julia, 2011, Intelligent Virtue, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199228782.001.0001 (Scholar)
• Conradi, Peter J. and Gavin Lawrence, 2010, “Professor Philippa Foot: Philosopher regarded as being among the finest moral thinkers of the age” The Independent, October 19, 2010. (Scholar)
• FitzPatrick, William J., 2000, Teleology and the Norms of Nature, New York: Garland Pub. (Scholar)
• Gollwitzer, Helmut, Käthe Kuhn, and Reinhold Schneider (eds), 1956, Dying We Live (Du hast mich heimgesucht bei Nacht), Reinhard C. Kuhn (trans.), London: The Harvill Press. (Scholar)
• Hacker-Wright, John, 2009, “What Is Natural About Foot’s Ethical Naturalism?” Ratio, 22(3): 308–321. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2009.00434.x (Scholar)
• –––, 2009, “Human Nature, Personhood, and Ethical Naturalism”, Philosophy, 84(3): 413–427. doi:10.1017/s0031819109000394 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Ethical Naturalism and the Constitution of Agency”, Journal of Value Inquiry, 46(1): 13–23. doi:10.1007/s10790-012-9321-5 (Scholar)
• –––, 2013a, “Human Nature, Virtue, and Rationality”, in Aristotelian Ethics in Contemporary Perspective, Julia Peters (ed.), London: Routledge, ch. 6. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013b, Philippa Foot’s Moral Thought, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Hursthouse, Rosalind, 1999, On Virtue Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/0199247994.001.0001 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Philippa Ruth Foot 1920–2010”, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XI: 176–196. [Hursthouse 2012 available online] (Scholar)
• Hursthouse, Rosalind, Gavin Lawrence, and Warren Quinn (eds.), 1995, Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory: Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Lawrence, Gavin, 1995, “The Rationality of Morality” in Hursthouse, Lawrence, & Quinn 1995: ch. 5. (Scholar)
• Lott, Micah, 2012, “Have Elephant Seals Refuted Aristotle? Nature, Function, and Moral Goodness”, Journal of Moral Philosophy, 9(3): 353–375. doi:10.1163/174552412x625727 (Scholar)
• –––, 2012, “Moral Virtue as Knowledge of Human Form”, Social Theory and Practice, 38(3): 407–431. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract201238323 (Scholar)
• Millgram, Elijah, 2009, “Life and Action”, Analysis, 69(3): 557–564. doi:10.1093/analys/anp087 (Scholar)
• Odenbaugh, Jay, 2017, “Nothing in Ethics Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution? Natural Goodness, Normativity, and Naturalism”, Synthese, 194(4): 1–25. doi:10.1007/s11229-015-0675-7. (Scholar)
• Quinn, Warren, 1994, Morality and Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9781139172677 (Scholar)
• Rachels, James, 1975, “Active and Passive Euthanasia”, New England Journal of Medicine 292(2): 78–80. doi:10.1056/nejm197501092920206 (Scholar)
• Smith, Michael, 1994, The Moral Problem, Malden, MA: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Thompson, Michael, 2003, “Three Degrees of Natural Goodness”, originally appeared in Italian translation as “Tre gradi di bontà naturale”, Iride, 38: 191–197; author's preprint in English available online. (Scholar)
• –––, 2004, “Apprehending Human Form”, Modern Moral Philosophy, (Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 54), Anthony O’Hear (ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511550836.004 (Scholar)
• –––, 2008, Life and Action: Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical Thought, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Thomson, Judith Jarvis, 1971, “A Defense of Abortion”, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1(1): 47–66. (Scholar)
• Voorhoeve, Alex, 2009, Conversations on Ethics, Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1953 [2009], Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe, P.M.S. Hacker, and Joachim Schulte, 4^th edition, London: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Woodcock, Scott, 2006, “Philippa Foot’s Virtue Ethics has an Achilles’ Heel”, Dialogue, 45(3): 445–468. doi:10.1017/s0012217300001013 (Scholar)