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The trolley problem mysteries / F.M. Kamm ; with commentaries by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas Hurka, Shelly Kagan ; edited and introduced by Eric Rakowski.

Title
The trolley problem mysteries / F.M. Kamm ; with commentaries by Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas Hurka, Shelly Kagan ; edited and introduced by Eric Rakowski.
Author
Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna)
Publication
New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors
Rakowski, Eric,
Description
xi, 256 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
'The Trolley Problem Mysteries' considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others.
Series Statement
The Berkeley Tanner lectures
Uniform Title
University press scholarship online.
Subject
  • Consequentialism (Ethics)
  • Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Decision making > Moral and ethical aspects
  • Dilemma
  • Dilemma
  • Responsibility
  • Responsibility
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Eric Rakowski -- Lecture I: Who turned the trolley? -- Lecture II: How was the trolley turned? -- Diagrams -- Kamm on the trolley problems / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Trolleys and permissible harm / Thomas Hurka -- Solving the trolley problem / Shelly Kagan -- The trolley problem mysteries on trial : defending the trolley problem, a type of solution to it, and a method of ethics / F. M. Kamm.
ISBN
  • 9780190247157 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0190247150 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2015000999
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library