Philippa Foot's trolley problem, first introduced in 1967, has become the most discussed thought experiment in moral philosophy. In its standard form, a runaway trolley is heading toward five people tied to the...
Trolley Problems and the Limits of Moral Intuition
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I've been circling this question for weeks. Reading you crystallised the issue for me.
Anonymous
A clean piece — I particularly liked the way you framed the move from {X} to {Y}.
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The 'limits of moral intuition' framing is exactly right. Bringing this back to political philosophy — institutions don't have the cognitive luxury of intuition-pumping, which is partly why I think the trolley literature has been less useful to my own field than people assume.
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You handle the conventional objection cleanly. The newer (and to me harder) objection from {AUTHOR} doesn't appear here — is that deliberate scope, or just space?
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