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Self-Sacrifice and the Trolley Problem [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical Psychology, 2013
Judith Jarvis Thomson has recently proposed a new argument for the thesis that killing the one in the Trolley Problem is not permissible. Her argument relies on the introduction of a new scenario, in which the bystander may also sacrifice herself to save
Ezio Di Nucci
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The Trolley Problem

American Journal of Physics, 1970
A rectangular current circuit in which one conductor is moving along its own axis is Lorentz equivalent to a two-trolley loop sliding along a stationary wire. The body and surface densities of charge and current are deduced on the basis of a simplifying idealization.
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Trolley Problem Applied

International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2022
Even a dog can tell if he was tripped over or kicked. Would entrepreneurs know? To slow down the progress of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, many states have taken restrictive measures, including the closing of private businesses. Are entrepreneurs therefore entitled to compensation? The answer is not obvious. In this paper, I suggest a solution which follows
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The Organ Conscription Trolley Problem

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2009
Delaney and Hershenov (2009) describe two scenarios intended to elicit the intuition that we have the right to use the organs of a non-consenting deceased donor in order to save a life.
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The Cortex and the Trolley Problem

2023
Abstract This chapter discusses Joshua Greene’s contribution to the recently salient field of empirical moral psychology. The grounds for the empirical hypotheses that he offers about human morality are of three types: psychological experiments, observations of brain activity, and evolutionary theory.
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A SUGGESTED SOLUTION TO THE TROLLEY PROBLEM

Journal of Social Philosophy, 1995
L'A. presente la solution d'ordre utilitaire qu'il propose au Probleme du Trolley souleve par J. Thomson. Dans les differents cas de figure, dits du spectateur, du conducteur ou de la greffe, il s'agit de se placer dans la situation qui precede l'action (pre-action situation), afin de definir les interets de l'agent a realiser ou ne pas realiser l'acte
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The Transplant Trolley Problem

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2022
Robert, Osorio, Guillermo, Palchik
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The Trolley Problem as a Problem for Libertarians

Utilitas, 2007
Many political libertarians argue, or assume, that negative moral duties (duties not to harm others) prevail over positive moral duties (duties to aid others), and that the legal system ought to reflect such pre-eminence. I call into question this strategy for defending a libertarian order. I start by arguing that a successful account of the well-known
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A problem with trolleys

2016
This talk will present an overview of how the commercial development of self driving cars is significantly shaping conceptions of ethics in data societies, and what this means for an understanding of human and machine interactions, intelligence and autonomy.
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