Category
Ethical Dilemmas
Thought experiments such as the trolley problem rebuilt one variant at a time and set beside real cases, showing which changed detail moves which intuition.
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Flagship entry
Trolley Problem Variations: 18 of 26 Keep Five vs. One
26 trolley problem variations from Kamm's 2013 lectures, two Stanford Encyclopedia entries and German law, mapped: 18 keep five against one. See what changes.
Image credit
"The motorman LCCN2004677189" by Heine Service, Ltd.; Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LCCN 2004677189 — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_motorman%22_LCCN2004677189.jpg — Public domain (US: published in 1923, before 1931, and copyrighted by Heine Service, Ltd.; the Library of Congress record notes no renewal found; EU: no photographer is named and the photograph was published in 1923, so the 70-year term for anonymous works ended in 1993)
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Trolley Problem: Foot's Original Has a Driver, No Bystander
Philippa Foot's 1967 trolley problem has a tram driver, not a bystander. Thomson named it in 1976, added the switch bystander in 1985 or 1986, reversed in 2008.
Image credit
"St. R'y (i.e., street railway) Switch Tender, Berlin LCCN2014700260" by Bain News Service; George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._R%27y_(i.e.,_street_railway)_Switch_Tender,_Berlin_LCCN2014700260.jpg — Public domain (US: published by the Bain News Service before 1931, per the Commons PD-old-70-1923 tag; EU: the photographer is not named, and an anonymous photograph made public more than 70 years ago is out of copyright)
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