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The Trolley Problem Revisited. An Exploratory Study [PDF]
Annales Etyka w Życiu Gospodarczym, 2018 Recent studies by cognitive scientists demonstrate that people’s choices are more complex than the image provided by rational choice theory, and consistency of choice is not a characteristic to be expected in real-life situations.
Sharaf Rehman +1 more
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The Pandemic Doesn’t Run on Trolley Tracks: A Comment on Eyal's Essay "Beware the Trolley Zealots"
Sociologica, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic raises various ethical questions, one of which is the question of when and how countries should move from lockdown to reopening. In his paper “Beware the Trolley Zealots” (2020), Gil Eyal looks at this question, arguing against a ...
Cansu Canca
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Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 2017 No one has done more over the past four decades to draw attention to the importance of, and attempt to solve, a particularly vexing problem in ethics—the Trolley Problem—than Judith Jarvis Thomson. Though the problem is originally due to Philippa Foot (“The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect”), Thomson showed how Foot’s simple ...
Peter Graham
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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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A Kantian Solution to the Trolley Problem [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter proposes a solution to the Trolley Problem in terms of the Kantian prohibition on using a person ‘merely as a means.’ A solution of this type seems impossible due to the difficulties it is widely thought to encounter in the scenario known as
Timmons, Mark, Kleingeld, Pauline
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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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PLoS ONE, 2021 Crews operating remotely piloted aircrafts (RPAs) in military operations may be among the few that truly experience tragic dilemmas similar to the famous Trolley Problem.
Markus Christen +5 more
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Spatial transportation of the beam on a bifilar fastening [PDF]
FME Transactions, 2022 The complex problem of the spatial motion of the "trolley-beam" mechanical system is investigated. Three stages are considered: 1) movement of the beam on a bifilar suspension to the movable trolley; 2) movement of the beam after the breakage of one ...
Stadnik Alexander +3 more
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Turkish Journal of Bioethics, 2016 The replacement of trolley systems by buses, a process which fundamentally reshaped America's urban landscape, has long been viewed as inevitable. However, in this paper, I look beyond arguments of financial necessity to show that, in New Haven, Connecticut, a massive engineering and publicity campaign coordinated between business, government, and ...
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The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, the ethical and spiritual aspects of the trolley problem are discussed in connection with the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Morioka, Masahiro +3 more
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