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

• VerfasserIn: Edmonds, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 10 line illus.

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...

Table of Contents

• 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