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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.)
moral advice, you would probably not say, “Well, that depends. Would you have to push the guy, or could you do it with a switch?” The second factor, the means/side‐effect factor, has a long and distinguished philosophical history (Aquinas 2006 ). But, as I argue elsewhere (Greene 2013 ),
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