The academic study of ethics is full of ideas that shape how we think about the world, and many of them come from women whose work deserves to be better known. Women writers, thinkers and ethicists have contributed for millennia alongside their male counterparts, yet their work has been often forgotten or side-lined.
In our new series of reels #WomeninEthics, a collaboration between the Department of Social Ethics at the University of Bonn and the Uehiro Oxford Institute at the University of Oxford, we’re shining a light on women thinkers and the ideas they’ve brought to the field.
Our first featured thinker, Philippa Foot, was an Oxford-based philosopher and ethicist, who created the trolley problem – used in classrooms, ethics committees, even memes – but hardly anyone knows it was created by a woman.
In this series, we’ll be introducing you to brilliant women in ethics like her, past and present, whose ideas deserve to be known.
We’d love to hear from you if you have ideas about women we should feature in the series (tell us in the comments section below), and you can catch up on all the reels on our YouTube channel and Instagram page.
#WiE. More remarkable women, every Thursday on Instagram.
Stay curious.
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