Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics
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Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics. / Di Nucci, Ezio.
Experimental Ethics: Toward an Empirical Moral Philosophy. ed. / Christoph Lütge; Hannes Rusch; Matthias Uhl. London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. p. 80-93.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Trolleys and Double Effect in Experimental Ethics
AU - Di Nucci, Ezio
PY - 2014/10
Y1 - 2014/10
N2 - I analyse the relationship between the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Trolley Problem: the former offers a solution for the latter only on the premise that killing the one in Bystander at the Switch is permissible. Here I offer both empirical and theoretical arguments against the permissibility of killing the one: firstly, I present data from my own empirical studies according to which the intuition that killing the one is permissible is neither widespread nor stable; secondly, I defend a normative principle according to which killing the one in Bystander at the Switch is not permissible. In conclusion, there just is no trolley problem.
AB - I analyse the relationship between the Doctrine of Double Effect and the Trolley Problem: the former offers a solution for the latter only on the premise that killing the one in Bystander at the Switch is permissible. Here I offer both empirical and theoretical arguments against the permissibility of killing the one: firstly, I present data from my own empirical studies according to which the intuition that killing the one is permissible is neither widespread nor stable; secondly, I defend a normative principle according to which killing the one in Bystander at the Switch is not permissible. In conclusion, there just is no trolley problem.
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781137409799
SP - 80
EP - 93
BT - Experimental Ethics
A2 - Lütge, Christoph
A2 - Rusch, Hannes
A2 - Uhl, Matthias
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - London
ER -
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