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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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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
Kleingeld, Pauline
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Moral Dilemmas in the A.I. Era: A New Approach [PDF]
Journal of Ethics and Legal Technologies, 2020 In this paper, we analyse the structure of evolving moral dilemmas with an eye of regard for the increasing importance of the role of artificial intelligence in such context.
Paolo Sommaggio, Samuela Marchiori
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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, 2021 style [PDF]
British Journal of General Practice, 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.
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Religions, 2020 The television series The Good Place (2016–2020), created by Michael Schur revolves around four humans who—after their deaths—end up in what they believe to be heaven: the “Good Place”. In reality, however, they are in a very sophisticated torture place,
Frank G. Bosman
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Sociologica, 2020 This essay draws on Mary Douglas' theory of institutional styles of thinking to analyze the debate about how and when the Coronavirus crisis can be brought to an end. The dominant approach, I show, frames the problem in utilitarian terms, akin to what is
Gil Eyal
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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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S. Kahn. Kant and the trolley / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article explores the applicability of Kant’s ethics, which prohibited the use people as mere means, in solutions to various Trolley problem scenarios. Based on the distinction between notions ‘using as mere means’ and ‘treating as mere means’, the
A. V. Nekhaev
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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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