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Trolley Problems and Other Difficult Moral Questions
www2.econ.iastate.eduPhilippa Foot introduced the trolley problem in “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect” (Foot, Philippa, 1967). Suppose that a judge or magistrate is faced with rioters demanding that a culprit be found for a certain crime and threatening otherwise to take their own bloody revenge on a particular section of the ...
The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double …
philpapers.orgPhilippa Foot 1967. Oxford Review, No. 5. Included in Foot, 1977/2002 Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy. (Minor stylistic amendments have been made.) One of the reasons why most of us feel puzzled about the problem of abortion is that we want, and do not want, to allow to the unborn child the rights that belong to adults
The Trolley Problem
rintintin.colorado.edu2. Intending vs. Foreseeing Harm: Philippa Foot (who authored the original Switch case) suggests that the difference is that, in Footbridge, one intends to harm the fat man as a means to saving the others. In that scenario, it is necessary to use the fat man as a tool in order to save the others (though using him this way will kill him). Meanwhile,
The Grammar of Goodness - Harvard University
www.hcs.harvard.eduPhilippa Foot is Griffin Professor, Emerita, at UCLA and an Honorary Fellow of Somerville College at Oxford. Foot describes her career as one of slow progress in developing a distinctive line of thought on the nature of moral judgment and the rationality of acting morally. Asked to …
The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double …
sites.pitt.eduPhilippa Foot Oxford Review, no. 5, 1967 One of the reasons why most of us feel puzzled about the problem of abortion is that we want,and do not want,to allow to the unborn child the rights that belong to adults and children. When we think of a baby about to be born it seems absurd to think that the next few minutes
Advantages & Disadvantages of Virtue Ethics
o.b5z.netfrom the virtues (e.g., Aristotle; Philippa Foot; Alasdair MacIntyre); (2) Standard Deontic Correspondence Thesis: virtues are derived from duties, rules, or principles; for every rule there is a corresponding virtue that is to be cultivated in one’s disposition (e.g.,William Frankena; John Rawls; Paul R. Shockley); (3)