Would you kill the fat man? : the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong /
Pt. 1. 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 K©œnigsberg ; Paving the road to hell ; Morals by numbers -- pt. 2. Experiments and the trolley...
| Основен автор: | Edmonds, David. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2015.
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Съдържание:
- 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.