Description: Trolley Problem Mysteries, Hardcover by Kamm, F. M.; Rakowski, Eric (EDT); Thomson, Judith Jarvis (CON); Hurka, Thomas (CON); Kagan, Shelly (CON), ISBN 0190247150, ISBN-13 9780190247157, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US A rigorous treatment of a thought experiment that has become notorious within and outside of philosophy - The Trolley Problem - by one of the most influential moral philosophers alive today
Suppose you can stop a trolley from killing five people, but only by turning it onto a side track where it will kill one. May you turn the trolley? What if the only way to rescue the five is to topple a bystander in front of the trolley so that his body stops it but he dies? May you use a device to
stop the trolley that will kill a bystander as a side effect? The "Trolley Problem" challenges us to explain and justify our different intuitive judgments about these and related cases and has spawned a huge literature. . Kamms 2013 Tanner Lectures present some of her views on this notorious
moral conundrum. After providing a brief history of changing views of what the problem is about and attempts to solve it, she focuses on two prominent issues: Does who turns the trolley and how the harm is shifted affect the moral permissibility of acting? The answers to these questions lead to
general proposals about when we may and may not harm some to help others.
Three distinguished philosophers - Judith Jarvis Thomson (one of the originators of the trolley problem), Thomas Hurka, and Shelly Kagan - then comment on Kamms proposals. She responds to each comment at length, providing an exceptionally rich elaboration and defense of her views. The Trolley
Problem Mysteries is an invaluable resource not only to philosophers concerned about the Trolley Problem, but to anyone worried about how we ought to act when we can lessen harm to some by harming others and how we can reach a decision about the question.
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Book Title: Trolley Problem Mysteries
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Topic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Philosophy, Psychology
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Author: F. M. Kamm
Item Length: 5.6 in
Item Width: 8.3 in
Book Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
Format: Hardcover
