Picture the following situation: You are taking a freshman-level philosophy class in college, and your professor has just asked you to imagine a runaway trolley barreling down a track toward a group ...

Think quickly: You are a bystander witnessing a runaway trolley that is careening toward five workers. You have just two choices: One, pull a switch diverting the trolley onto another track, where one ...

Woojin Lim ’22, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Winthrop House. Daniel Shin ’22 is a Philosophy and Math concentrator in Quincy House. Their column appears on alternate ...

An exploration of The Trolley Problem, a popular thought experiment in ethics first created by Philippa Foot. Film by Eoin Duffy produced for Ted-ED: At first it appears most would sacrifice one ...

Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...

The Moral Machine Experiment highlights the cultural and economic variations between countries responding to the ethical dilemma. As autonomous vehicles become more ubiquitous, thinking about the ...

There is quite a lot of work to be done before self-driving cars will be ready to take over the wheel from human drivers, in both technology as well as building a proper ethical foundation upon which ...

I imagine you’re all familiar with the concept of the Trolley Problem. You know the ethics-minefield thought experiment, right? A trolley barrels down railway tracks, hurtling towards five people. You ...

Review of Would You Kill The Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong. By David Edmonds. Princeton University Press. 220 pp. $19.95 You may well be familiar ...

Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...