The trolley problem is a story philosophers often use to get people thinking about ethics and their obligations to others. Traditionally, the problem has us imagine we are an onlooker standing next to ...

Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...

There was a mention of the classic trolley problem in your look at a new book on morality. This left me wondering whether – rather than choose to push an innocent bystander into the path of the ...