Sentences with phrase «trolley problems»

Aware of the buzz over trolley problems, Mikhail began to suspect that the foundations of moral judgment were innate as well.

Philosophical puzzles like the trolley problem become famous for a reason.

One of the key characteristics of the trolley problem is that it's a lose - lose situation: either you kill an innocent person, or you allow several people to die.

4) Will people in your organization recognize situations akin to the trolley problem as being ethical problems in the first place?

There's a famous philosophical thought experiment known as the «Trolley Problem.»

But the trolley problem can still serve as a useful starting point for talking about business ethics.

The so - called «Trolley Problem» has long been a philosophical conundrum of ethics.

A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....

Researchers test a famous ethical dilemma called the «trolley problem» in a very real setting.

Scientists asked 451 online survey - takers whether — in the event of an inevitable accident — it was more appropriate to sacrifice passengers or bystanders, a quandary known as the trolley problem in ethics.

Right about that time, Greene heard about an ethical thought experiment called the trolley problem, developed in the 1960s by British philosopher Philippa Foot and expanded by American philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson.

He took the trolley problem as his starting point, then invented questions designed to place volunteers on a spectrum of moral judgment.

Denis Villeneuve took on this unenviable task, and I am in awe that he not only beat the modern Hollywood franchise iteration of the trolley problem, but managed to create a work of art that will endure in much the same way as its predecessor.

How The Good Place Goes Beyond «The Trolley Problem» — Elizabeth Yuko says that the terrific NBC sitcom continues to explore ethics without sacrificing complexity or humor in Season 2.

This PP introduces the issues by asking students to think about the Trolley Problem, some case studies and then consider the Christian Principle, «The Sanctity of Life».

However, it's just occurred to me that an idea I've tried to express in the economistic terms of opportunity cost, without convincing anybody, might be more persuasive as a trolley problem.

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Is your business one in which trolley - problem - like dilemmas come up often?

This was vividly brought home to me recently, reading the vast work of academic moral philosophy On What Matters, by Derek Parfit, in which problems concerning the switching of trolleys from one rail to another in order to prevent or cause the deaths of those further down the line are presented as showing the essence of moral reasoning and its place in the life of human beings.

These looks like a brilliant idea; I do most of my shopping at Aldi and it has always bugged me that you have to put your stuff onto the conveyor belt, then back into your trolley and then move away and put them into your bags... this would completely solve that problem!

They agreed on one thing: there's not one «silver bullet» to completely solve traffic problems, but perhaps a combination of methods, whether they be trolley services or other mechanisms, to mitigate them.

People in the study experienced problems with signage, small writing on packaging, queueing and manoeuvring trolleys down the aisles.

As an advanced grad student and then a postdoc in Cohen's pioneering Neuroscience of Cognitive Control Laboratory, Greene first began using fMRI to scan volunteers as they considered trolley scenarios and other tough philosophical problems.

But now, most new trolleys are hybrid, with batteries that let them go short distances, get around problems and get through intersections when the poles come off the wires.

Prof. Lubet points out the practical problems and logical fallacies with Justice Scalia's infatuation with the fictional agent Jack Bauer on the television series 24 and Justice Scalia's twist on, and stretch of, the Trolley Car thought experiment.

Redesigned a Busse can trolley loader to resolve problem with product damage, using Intralox belting, to produce savings of about $ 20,000 per year.