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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
- 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