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Practical Philosophy Political and Philosophy of Ethics Social Aesthetics Law Philosophy Normative Philosophy of Applied Ethics Metaethics Ethics Literature Moral Moral Philosophy of Bioethics psychology Epistemology Film

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Practical Philosophy Ethics Applied Ethics Bioethics Business Ethics ... Normative Ethics Moral psychology Value Theory Metaethics Moral Epistemology Moral Language Political and Social Philosophy Philosophy of Law Aesthetics Philosophy of Literature Philosophy of Film ...

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  • (Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stcrX2VAfuk)
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Exercise

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killing one to save five Trolley Driver Trans- plant

  • These two thought experiments have an important

similarity: an agent can kill one person to save five

  • But: we differ in our moral assessment of these cases
  • 1. How do we know this?
  • 2. Is this important?
  • 3. What do we do now?
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killing one to save five Trolley Driver Trans- plant killing vs killing killing vs letting die

  • Foot finds what she thinks is a relevant dissimilarity: in

Trolley Driver, we weigh killing vs killing, but in Transplant, we weigh killing vs letting die

  • Proposed Principle: Killing is worse than letting die

How does Thomson reply to this?

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  • (from http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10foot.html?_r=0)
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Trans- plant By- stander killing vs letting die killing vs letting die

  • Thomson constructs a

new case where it’s killing vs letting die in both cases

  • But: we still judge the

cases differently

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killing one to save five Trolley Driver Trans- plant By- stander killing vs killing killing vs letting die killing vs letting die ... more examples, counterexamples, problems

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Exercise

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  • Information for this slide and the next taken from Sinnott-Armstrong’s paper

“Framing Moral Intuitions” on http://sites.duke.edu/wsa/papers/files/2011/05/wsa- framingmoralintuitions2008.pdf.

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(Petrinovich, Lewis, and Philip O’Neil. 1996. “Influence of Wording and Framing Effects on Moral Intuitions.” Ethology and Sociobiology 67:145-171.)

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  • Fig. 5 from Weinberg, Jonathan M., Shaun Nichols, and Stephen Stich. “Normativity and

Epistemic Intuitions.” Philosophical Topics, 29, no. 1–2 (2001): 429–460.