The trolley problem, 2021 style. [PDF]
Br J Gen Pract, 2021 To ethicists ‘the trolley problem’ does not relate to the number of patients spilling out into hospital corridors, waiting to receive care. It relates to a 1960s thought experiment from a well known ethicist, Philippa Foot. The trolley in question is the American word for a tram or railway carriage.
Misselbrook D.
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Medical ethics and the trolley problem [PDF]
Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine, 2019 The so-called Trolley Problem was first discussed by Philippa Foot in 1967 as a way to test moral intuitions regarding the doctrine of double effect, Kantian principles and utilitarianism. Ever since, a great number of philosophers and psychologists have
Gabriel Andrade
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Ethical Considerations of the Trolley Problem in Autonomous Driving: A Philosophical and Technological Analysis [PDF]
World Electric Vehicle JournalThe trolley problem has long posed a complex ethical challenge in the field of autonomous driving technology. By constructing a general trolley problem model, this paper demonstrates that the default loss assumption is a necessary condition for the ...
Hao Zhan, Dan Wan
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How to Regulate Moral Dilemmas Involving Self-Driving Cars: The 2021 German Act on Autonomous Driving, the Trolley Problem, and the Search for a Role Model [PDF]
German Law Journal, 2023 With the promulgation of the Autonomous Driving Act in summer 2021, Germany took the worldwide lead on regulating self-driving cars. This Article discusses the (non-)regulation of moral dilemmas in this act.
Lando Kirchmair
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Clarifying ethical stances in conservation: a trolley problem thought experiment. [PDF]
BioscienceConservation policies often need to integrate scientific predictions with ethical considerations. However, different normative ethical systems at the root of conservation approaches often support different decisions, and the moral stances of stakeholders
Latombe G +11 more
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Solving the Single-Vehicle Self-Driving Car Trolley Problem Using Risk Theory and Vehicle Dynamics. [PDF]
Sci Eng Ethics, 2020 Questions of what a self-driving car ought to do if it encounters a situation analogous to the ‘trolley problem’ have dominated recent discussion of the ethics of self-driving cars. This paper argues that this interest is misplaced.
Davnall R.
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Partisanship and the trolley problem: Partisan willingness to sacrifice members of the other party
Research & Politics, 2022 Do partisans view members of the other party as having lower moral status? While research shows that partisans view the out-group quite poorly, we show that affective polarization extends to expressing a willingness to sacrifice an out-partisan’s life ...
Michael Barber, Ryan Davis
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The Transplant Trolley Problem
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2022 Since being introduced by Philippa Foot in 1967, The Trolley Problem has generated somuch debate and discussion that it has earned its own droll designation “Trolleyology.”However, the circumstances differ, and the dilemmas in these scenarios involve a ...
Robert, Osorio, Guillermo, Palchik
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The Outlandish, the Realistic, and the Real: Contextual Manipulation and Agent Role Effects in Trolley Problems [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 Hypothetical trolley problems are widely used to elicit moral intuitions, which are employed in the development of moral theory and the psychological study of moral judgments.
Natalie eGold +2 more
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PLoS ONE, 2021 Researchers often use moral dilemmas to investigate the specific factors that influence participants' judgments of the appropriateness of different actions. A common construction of such a dilemma is the Trolley Problem, which pits an obvious utilitarian
Jeffrey Winking, Jeremy Koster
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