It’s a lesson embedded within Star Trek’s Prime Directive — but as the Trolley Problem illustrated, sometimes inaction can be morally problematic. In this thought experiment, we are asked to ...

Or do you do nothing? This haunting choice is a variation of the “trolley problem,” an iconic philosophical thought experiment. (If you’ve never heard of it before, try this.) Puzzling ...

The real question is what we value in creative work. 3. The Synthetic Samaritan (Challenging the Trolley Problem) The thought ...

“I think almost everyone within this field has considered running this experiment in real life ... In the end, the value of the trolley problem as a research tool may not depend on whether ...

A variation of Foot’s trolley case runs as follows ... In 1987 an American, Judith Jarvis Thomson (whom we’ve met in this column before – see Thought Experiment 2: The Unconscious Violinist) entered ...

Oh, shoot. The trolley problem is happening to me.

to actually live out the “trolley problem” thought experiment that forces you to choose between killing five people or just one person. On Tuesday, “Good Place” creator Mike Schur ...

That’s the most famous version of the trolley problem, a philosophical thought experiment popularized in the 1970s. There are other variants; the next most famous asks if you’d push a fat man ...

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