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Would you kill the fat man? : the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong / David Edmonds.

Edmonds, David, 1964-
2014
BJ1012 .E34 2014eb
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Title
Would you kill the fat man? : the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong / David Edmonds.
Author
Edmonds, David, 1964-
ISBN
9781400848386 (electronic book)
1400848385 (electronic book)
1299874215 (electronic book)
9781299874213 (electronic book)
9780691154022
0691154023
Published
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 220 pages) : illustrations
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BJ1012 .E34 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
150
Summary
In this book, David Edmonds, coauthor of the best-selling Wittgenstein's Poker, tells the riveting story of why and how philosophers have struggled with the ethical dilemma posed by the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Part I. Philosophy and the trolley : Churchill's dilemma
Spur of the moment
The founding mothers
The seventh son of Count Landulf
Fat man, loop, and lazy Susan
Ticking clocks and the sage of Königsberg
Paving the road to hell
Morals by numbers
Part II. Experiments and the trolley : Out of the armchair
It just feels wrong
Dudley's choice and the moral instinct
Part III. Mind and brain and the trolley : The irrational animal
Wrestling with neurons
Bionic trolley
Part IV. The trolley and its critics : A streetcar named backfire
The terminal
Appendix : Ten trolleys: a rerun.

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