Would You Kill the Fat Man? : The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong /

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A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge, he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Edmonds, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Ethics.
Thought experiments.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Prologue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. Philosophy and the Trolley
  • Chapter 1. Churchill's Dilemma
  • Chapter 2. Spur of the Moment
  • Chapter 3. The Founding Mothers
  • Chapter 4. The Seventh Son of Count Landulf
  • Chapter 5. Fat Man, Loop, and Lazy Susan
  • Chapter 6. Ticking Clocks and the Sage of Königsberg
  • Chapter 7. Paving the Road to Hell
  • Chapter 8. Morals by Numbers
  • Part 2. Experiments and the Trolley
  • Chapter 9. Out of the Armchair
  • Chapter 10. It Just Feels Wrong
  • Chapter 11. Dudley's Choice and the Moral Instinct
  • Part 3. Mind and Brain and the Trolley
  • Chapter 12. The Irrational Animal
  • Chapter 13. Wrestling with Neurons
  • Chapter 14. Bionic Trolley
  • Part 4. The Trolley and Its Critics
  • Chapter 15. A Streetcar Named Backfire
  • Chapter 16 The Terminal
  • Appendix: Ten Trolleys: A Rerun
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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