Would You Kill the Fat Man? : : The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong / / David Edmonds.
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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Edmonds, David, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Would You Kill the Fat Man? : The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong / David Edmonds. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2013] ©2013 1 online resource (240 p.) : 10 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 will topple onto the line and, although he will die, his chunky body will stop the train, saving five lives. Would you kill the fat man? The question may seem bizarre. But it's one variation of a puzzle that has baffled moral philosophers for almost half a century and that more recently has come to preoccupy neuroscientists, psychologists, and other thinkers as well. 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 this ethical dilemma, sometimes called the trolley problem. In the process, he provides an entertaining and informative tour through the history of moral philosophy. Most people feel it's wrong to kill the fat man. But why? After all, in taking one life you could save five. As Edmonds shows, answering the question is far more complex--and important--than it first appears. In fact, how we answer it tells us a great deal about right and wrong. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) Ethics. Thought experiments. PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy. bisacsh print 9780691165639 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400848386?locatt=mode:legacy Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400848386.jpg |
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Edmonds, David, Edmonds, David, Would You Kill the Fat Man? : The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong / 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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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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