Solving the Trolley Problem - Harvard University

A Companion to Experimental Philosophy, First Edition. Edited by Justin Sytsma and Wesley Buckwalter. 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The Trolley Problem has baffled ethicists for decades (Foot 1978; Thomson 1985; Fischer and Ravizza 1992) and has, more recently, become a focal point for research in moral psychology (Petrinovich, O Neill, and Jorgensen 1993; Greene et al. 2001; Edmonds 2013; Greene 2015). As the Trolley Problem s interdisciplinary history suggests, it is actually two closely related prob-lems, one normative and one descriptive. The empirical research paper reprinted here (Greene et al. 2009) presents an approximate solution to the descriptive Trolley Problem .

principles. Instead, it would sway comfortably in the hammock of “reflective equilibrium,” sup-ported by a network of “considered judgments” (Rawls 1971 ). The second, more discomfiting possibility is that a better understanding of moral psychology will prompt us to reconsider many of our “considered judgments.”

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