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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 . What s more, it may provide essential ingredients for Solving or dissolving the normative Trolley the uninitiated, the Trolley Problem arises from a set of moral dilemmas, most of which involve tradeoffs between causing one death and preventing several more deaths.
as self‐driving cars (Wallach and Allen 2008). ... reflect the limitations of our cognitive architecture rather than a deep moral truth. As noted earlier, the psychological theory presented in the article reprinted here is only an ... bad when the harm is caused indirectly and as a side effect. These include cases of damaging
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