Trains, Trolley Cars, and Lifeboats: A Solution to Agent-Centered Restrictions and Tragic Questions through the Application of Middle Theory
This Thesis will examine how the framing of ‘trolley problems’ incorrectly motivates arithmetic rankings of states of affairs by removing context. This is problematic because the context of these problems provides the tools to solve moral dilemmas by allowing one to analyze the relevant motivations,...
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Scholarship @ Claremont
2014
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| Online Access: | http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/887 http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1858&context=cmc_theses |