Trolley Problem Mysteries

Zusatztext Professor Frances Myrna Kamm, a moral philosopher who for decades has been a leading analyst of this thought experiment, has now published her richly stimulating Tanner Lectures. Joining her lectures as chapters in the book are a trio of rigorous and unrelenting responses from a panel of philosophersProfessors Judith Jarvis Thomson, Thomas Hurka, and Shelly Kaganas well as an introduction by legal scholar Professor Eric RakowskiThe beating heart of this book is a fresh, often raw, analytical quarrel between Kamm and ThomsonThe books timing is impeccabledue in part to its uncanny resemblance to emergent questions about how to program autonomous vehiclessuch as military drones or driverless carsto act ethically. Informationen zum Autor F. M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences within the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. Kamm is also author of Intricate Ethics (OUP 2010) and Bioethical Prescriptions (OUP 2013), and others.Eric Rakowski is Edward C. Halbach Jr. Professor of Law at University of California Berkeley. Klappentext The Trolley Problem Mysteries considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others. Zusammenfassung The Trolley Problem Mysteries considers whether who turns the trolley and/or how it is turned (or otherwise stopped) affect the moral permissibility of acting and suggests general proposals for when we may and may not harm some people to help others.

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• Authors: KAMM, F. M. Kamm, F.M. Kamm, F.m. (Littauer Professor of Philosophy and P Kamm
• Assisted by: Eric Rakowski (Editor), Rakowski Eric (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.01.2016
• EAN: 9780190247157
• ISBN: 978-0-19-024715-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Ethical issues, topics and debates