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3 October: Philippa Foot's birthday.
Philippa Foot is the mother of the "trolley problem". See her original text from 1967 here: http://www2.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/foot.pdf.
Below, you can find the best 7 @ethicsinbricks tweets on the #trolleyproblem.
3 October: Philippa Foot's birthday.
Philippa Foot is the mother of the "trolley problem". See her original text from 1967 here: http://www2.pitt.edu/~mthompso/readings/foot.pdf.
Below, you can find the best 7 @ethicsinbricks tweets on the #trolleyproblem.
The original trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What should you do?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (1/7)
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you change its track by pulling the lever, only 1 will die.
What should you do?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (1/7)
A variation of the trolley problem:
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a big man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What should you do?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (2/7)
A brakeless trolley nears.
If you don't act, 5 people will die.
If you push a big man from an overpass, he will die while stopping and saving the 5 on the trolley track.
What should you do?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (2/7)
The trolley problem fallacy:
Perceiving the world as a collection of pullable levers.
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (4/7)
Perceiving the world as a collection of pullable levers.
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (4/7)
A variation of the trolley problem:
5 people die if they don't receive a different vital organ.
1 healthy person enters with all 5 vital organs functioning.
Is it better to save the 5 by killing the 1?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (5/7)
5 people die if they don't receive a different vital organ.
1 healthy person enters with all 5 vital organs functioning.
Is it better to save the 5 by killing the 1?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (5/7)
Confronted with a brakeless, self-driving car with 4 passengers in it, Jeremy Bentham regretted his work on utilitarianism.
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (6/7)
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (6/7)
A trolley nears.
No one is in danger.
You are an ethics teacher.
Should you put people on the trolley tracks in order to keep your job?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (7/7)
No one is in danger.
You are an ethics teacher.
Should you put people on the trolley tracks in order to keep your job?
#trolleyday #trolleyproblem (7/7)
If you don't get some of the tweets, have a look at this explanatory video about the trolley problem:
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Not everyone likes trolley problems:
"The trolley problem is just one more depressing example of academic philosophers’ obsession with concentrating on selected, artificial examples so as to dodge the stress of looking at real issues."
- Mary Midgley
"The trolley problem is just one more depressing example of academic philosophers’ obsession with concentrating on selected, artificial examples so as to dodge the stress of looking at real issues."
- Mary Midgley
