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Would You Kill The Fat Man?
Would you kill the fat man?
Subtitle:
the trolley problem and what your answer tells us about right and wrong
Book Category:
Juvenile Nonfiction > Philosophy
Author:
Edmonds, David
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN 13:
9780691154022
Price:
USD 19.95
Publication Year:
2013

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Princeton University Press.

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This is a witty and informative discussion of the trolley problem in philosophical ethics by Oxford University researcher Edmonds (coauthor, with John Eidinow, of Wittgenstein's Poker, 2001). Roughly, the trolley problem is a thought experiment.

 

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