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	Trolley problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Similar problems have traditionally been addressed by criminal lawyers and are sometimes regulated in penal codes, especially in civil legal systems.
		trolley problem has been a significant feature in the field of neuroethics, which tends to approach philosophical questions from a neuroscientific approach.
		On the other hand, Thomson argues that an essential difference between the original trolley problem and this version with the fat man, is that in the first case, you merely deflect the harm, whereas in the second case, you have to do something to the fat man to save the five.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trolley_problem (1805 words)

	Electric Trolley Spares
		Trolley does not free wheel away from you easily when not under power or is generally difficult to manoeuvre when not under power.
		Problem: Trolley does not free wheel away from you easily when not under power or is generally difficult to manoeuvre when not under power.
		Newer trolleys are fitted with an adjustable front wheel housing which has a slot on the left-hand side where the wheel spindle goes through.
	www.electrictrolleyspares.com /trouble.htm (806 words)

	Consequentialism, Group Acts, and Trolleys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But notice that a trolley driver is a professional who is plausibly specially responsible for the trajectory of their trolley by virtue of a specific cooperative practice.
		The problem isn’t that the options which I consider in the moment include longer acts than that; indeed that is part of my point in introducing the notion of atomic agents, to reveal the way in which atomic agents consider options of what are in fact group agents which constitute one persisting life.
		Thomson, “The Trolley Problem”, in Fischer and Ravizza, pp.
	www.unl.edu /philosop/people/faculty/mendola/consequentialism.htm (10410 words)

	The Problem With Trolleys
		First of all, taking the trolley and the human driver as a unit, this is fairly close to the centre of the whole unit.
		In a FRW trolley, this is not so important, because the lateral friction on the rear wheels counteracts this effect and keeps the COR near the rear, giving you more control.
		When the trolley is at rest, moving at low speeds, or moving in reverse at any speed at all, it is in NFW mode (all wheels completely free to turn), so that it can easily be manoeuvered out of tight spaces.
	www.mwillett.org /mind/trolleys.htm (1388 words)

	THE ELECTRIC TROLLEY ERA BEGINS
		The trolley allowed people, for the first time, to live outside the city, and commute to their jobs in the city.
		The shoe or wheel at the very end of the trolley pole, the part that actually touches, and runs along the underside of the overhead wire, is called the trolley.
		So, the trolley is attached to the trolley pole, which is attached to the trolley car, and that’s how the trolley car got it’s name.
	www.trolleystop.com /trolleycar.htm (1262 words)

	Children's Knowledge of Problem Solving: A Gifted Group of Problem Solvers.
		Self-efficacy for problem solving is enhanced when students believe that they have the capabilities to solve problems and reach desired outcomes by effectively employing their skills and knowledge.
		During the problem solving interview the students were asked for their views about their problem solving ability, the possibility of improving their problem solving and whether their problem solving ability varies in relation to different types of problems.
		Problem solving knowledge is composed of both explicit knowledge which can be stated by the student and implicit knowledge which is evident in the actions of the student when problem solving.
	www.aare.edu.au /98pap/van98115.htm (5725 words)

	glome: The Trolley Problem
		According to the way the problem is worded, yes, this case should be exactly the same, but I think it makes us wonder whether it's really 'inevitable'...
		The problem states he is on a coliision course but not that he doesn't have time to brake.
		Posted by: chris at December 12, 2003 01:32 AM Well, that would be nice, but we're assuming that it's not possible to stop the train or notify the people on the tracks...
	www.glome.org /000201.html (1174 words)

	Violinist (Thought Experiment) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This problem, which is a famous thought experiment, was first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971.
		In her introduction to her "Famous Violinist Problem", Thomson notes that much of the inadequate debate on abortion was getting lost within the issue of whether the fetus is, in fact, a person or whether it is, simply, a mass of tissue.
		Foot, P., "The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect", reprinted at pp.19-32 in Foot, P., Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy, Basil Blackwell, (Oxford), 1978 (originally published in 1967).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Violinist_(Thought_Experiment) (867 words)

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		The article, and this problem in particular, spurred Judith Jarvis Thomson to write “Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem,” in which she elaborated upon Foot’s earlier example and contrasted it with a seemingly similar scenario: David is a great transplant surgeon.
		The problem is that, on strict consequentialist grounds, it is impossible to arrive at the appropriate moral intuition: in each case, the results are one dead and five saved.
		Note that this aim makes the unfamiliarity of the various Trolley Problem examples unimportant; the very fact that people consistently make the same permissibility judgments about the cases is enough—just as people’s ability to judge the grammaticality of unfamiliar sentences still explains syntactic intuitions, despite their unfamiliarity (Mikhail, pp.
	www-cs-students.stanford.edu /~lswartz/trolley/silicon_at_the_switch.doc (5464 words)

	Bang and Whimper » On Moral Theory
		The problem is that with numbers (and mathematical objects generally) we have rules for manipulating them and discerning their properties—namely, some axiomatic formal logic structure—but in the moral realm there is no such structure apparent.
		Let us then return to the trolley problem and the question of “moral permissivity.” Two days ago, I came upon an interesting website—a communal weblog for people somehow connected to the 617 area code who have an interest in philosophical issues.
		To solve the “Trolley Problem,” it may be necessary to know something about the proper ends of trolley drivers, and the ends of mad philosophers and the ends of persons tied to tracks.
	www.jokeofalltrades.com /?p=84 (3594 words)

	Trolley problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A brain in a vat on Twin Earth is at the wheel of a runaway trolley.
		Among the five men killed by "Leftie" are both the man responsible for putting the brain at the controls of the trolley, and the author of this example.
		If the ten hearts and "Leftie" are killed by the trolley, the ten prospective heart-transplant patients will die and their kidneys will be used to save the lives of twenty kidney-transplant patients, one of whom will grow up to cure cancer, and one of whom will grow up to be Hitler.
	home.sprynet.com /~owl1/trolley.htm (478 words)

	Trolleyville School - IMPROVING THE TURNING RADIUS OF THE NEW BOWSER TROLLEY POWER UNIT
		It is recommended that the modeler familiarize him/herself with the order of assembly in the drawing as both the power and trailing trucks will have to be partially disassembled to complete the turning radius improvement modifications.
		The floor is electrically neutral, so our purpose is to prevent at least one, if not both, of the truck brass contact plates, part 1256, from contacting the floor during turns causing an electrical short.
		This is not a problem for those operating from overhead wires.
	www.trolleyville.com /tv/school/turning_radius/index.shtml (1413 words)

	Trolley_problem Essential Information, explanation, recent texts, monographs, and relevant links.
		Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The trolley problem 2 Related problems 2.1 The fat man 2.2 The track that loops back 2.3 The man in the yard 3 Footnotes 4 References 5 Related topics The trolley problem The problem is this: A trolley is running out of control down a track.
		Related problems The initial trolley problem becomes interesting when it is compared to other moral dilemmas.
		The track that loops back The claim that it is wrong to use the death of one to save five runs into a problem with "loop" variants like this: As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people.
	www.real-estate-properties.com /primary/ethics/Trolley_problem.html (1114 words)

	debitage: part of the core tool and scraper tradition
		Such discussions inevitably end up focusing on the classic "trolley problem." In a nutshell, most people would pull a switch to send a runaway trolley down a side track, killing one person to save the five on the main track.
		But the way the problem is set up, either choice is regrettable, because you have to kill at least one person.
		But in fact the problem is not the intrinsic nonmonetariness of those goods, but rather the lack of a market in them to teach us how to assign prices.
	www.brunchma.com /~acsumama/blog/archive/2006_04_30_oldblog.html (2371 words)

	Cable Car Concepts
		From the company who set the standard for the trackless trolley industry, comes the newest addition to its family of nostalgic vehicles...Road Trains.
		Riders of all ages will have no problem boarding the coaches whose floor height is just 12.5 inches.
		The 60' long train(consisting of power unit and two coaches) is only 6.5' wide to accommodate narrow streets and the addition of articulated steering assures precise tracking of coaches.
	www.trolley.com /pages/roadt.html (120 words)

	Jersey City History - 1921: Jersey City Under Commission Government - Street Transportation -- Trolley And Jitney
		The trolley people and the jitney people are fighting one another, the trolley to put the jitney out of business, and the jitney people to maintain the business which they have built up.
		In those years contracts were negotiated by the trolley companies with the municipalities of the State, all of which embodied the five-cent fare as a part of the contract.
		The Commissioners' view is that the solution of the trolley problem, when the corporation shall be compelled by competition to meet the city upon fair terms, is on the principle of the service at cost plan which has been tried with a measure of success in Cleveland and some other cities.
	www.cityofjerseycity.org /commission/trolleyandjitney.shtml (1346 words)

	Halfbakery: Bluetooth Golf Trolley
		I had the misfortune to be on a golf course for a meeting the other week and noticed a plethora of golf trolley solutions : manual pull along trolleys for the fully able and non-lazy, the powered for those that just can't pull a trolley to the down right ridiculous radio-controlled trolley.
		The max range for a BT connection is 10 metres so I propose that your powered trolley uses its BT connection to set the default distance between golfer and itself as 5 metres.
		Thus, as the golfer walks, the trolley attempts to maintain the 5metres (50% signal strength) by moving.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Bluetooth_20Golf_20Trolley (336 words)

	Trolley problem . Consequentialism . Virtue ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The claim that it is wrong to use the death of one to save five runs into a problem with "loop" variants like this As before, a trolley is hurtling down a track towards five people.
		On this track is a single fat man. However, beyond the fat man, this track loops back onto the main line towards the five, and if it wasn t for the presence of the fat man, flipping the switch would not save the five.
		The only difference between this case and the original trolley problem is that an extra piece of track has been added, which seems a trivial difference especially since the trolley won t travel down it anyway.
	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Trolley_problem (370 words)

	Jacksonville's Financial News and Daily Record
		The trolley route begins at the parking lot, goes north on Bay Street, left on Laura Street, west a couple of blocks on Water Street and returns to the parking lot via Forsyth and Bay streets.
		The only major difference between opening day and today is the fact that, in order to accommodate the location of the new arena, the trolley lot has been moved, expanded and rebuilt one block north of its original location.
		Brown also said the trolley was originally created to serve Humana, who agreed to park its employees at the trolley lot in return for consistent, timely trolley service.
	www.jaxdailyrecord.com /showstory.php?Story_id=832 (1332 words)

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		The trolley driver has a choice between harming 1 or harming 5, so it's better to harm 1, but the doctor kills 1 and thus harms that 1 in order to aid 5.
		Assuming other things are equal, it is permissible to kill 1 innocent person in order to save other 5 innocents if and only if there's a threat to the 5 that can be redirected to the 1 by doing something to the threat but not doing something to a person in the redirecting act.
		E.g., suppose that in order to get to the steering wheel in time to turn the trolley onto the spur so that he can kill the 1 in order to save 5, frank the trolley passenger has to push another passenger out of the way (say, thereby breaking the other passenger's arm).
	spot.colorado.edu /~rhanna/3480_winter_2003_handout16.htm (1029 words)

	Brain imaging study sheds light on moral decision-making (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One dilemma, known as the trolley problem, involves a runaway train that is about to kill five people.
		The question is whether it is appropriate for a bystander to throw a switch and divert the trolley onto a spur on which it will kill one person and allow the five to survive.
		Philosophers compare this problem to a second scenario, sometimes called the footbridge problem, in which a train is again heading toward five people, but there is no spur.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/522609/posts (4935 words)

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		The Trolley Problem: Contemporary Philosophical Viewpoints Kevin Patrick Geib
		Die, and the Trolley Problem." The Trolley Problem is a philosophical problem that suggests that
		THE TROLLEY CASE: Edward is the driver of a trolley, whose brakes have
	www.uwec.edu /philrel/Prism/PRISM2002/page0035.htm (146 words)

	Legal Theory Lexicon: Legal Theory Lexicon 022: Intention
		Case two--where the Dawn's death is foreseen as highly likely but is not desired--is sometimes said to involve "oblique intention." Even though the death in case two was not directly intended, it is nonetheless the natural and foreseeable consequence of the intended action (blowing up the bridge while someone is on it).
		Trolley Problems In all four cases described above, the action that results in death is clearly wrongful.
		But in the "Trolley Problem," you do not directly intend the death; in the Trolley problem, you may hope that through some miracle the one person escapes death.
	lsolum.typepad.com /legal_theory_lexicon/2004/02/legal_theory_le_3.html (2169 words)

	What Does "Meaning" Mean?
		It also offered a potential solution to the trolley problem: Although the two scenarios have similar outcomes, they trigger different circuits in the brain.
		He took the trolley problem as his starting point, then invented questions designed to place volunteers on a spectrum of moral judgment.
		Among the regions that became active was a patch on the surface of the brain near the temples.
	www.flatrock.org.nz /topics/society_culture/tipping_point.htm (8503 words)

	Sham surgery controls are mitigated trolleys -- Albin 31 (3): 149 -- Journal of Medical Ethics
		criteria derived from the trolley problem and are morally permissible.
		The transplant case and the trolley problem are used to examine
		In this scenario, diverting the trolley from the
	jme.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/31/3/149 (3286 words)

	Reason Magazine - Morality on the Brain
		Anyone who has ever taken an undergraduate course in moral philosophy will remember the moral dilemma posed in the "trolley problem": You are standing next to a switch in a trolley track and you notice that a runaway trolley is about to hit a group of five people who are unaware of their danger.
		In the second version of the problem, you are standing on a bridge over a trolley track beside a fat person.
		He put some undergraduates into the fMRI, posed both versions of the trolley problem to them, and found that their brains lit up differently in each case.
	www.reason.com /news/show/35014.html (689 words)

	HAND-OUTS FOR PHIL 22B ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
		Edward is the driver of a trolley, whose brakes have failed.
		On the track ahead of him are five people; the banks are so steep that they will not be able to get off the track in time.
		Edward can turn the trolley, killing the one; or he can refrain from turning the trolley.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/handout10.html (677 words)

	The Trolley Problem and Utilitarianism
		The weight of five deaths would be on my shoulders and I would have to deal with each of the five families.
		In the end, Utilitarians would calculate that the greatest amount of utility, or happiness, that could result in the situation, would be generated by swerving the trolley from its original track and killing the lone civilian to save the other five that are trapped.
		The greatest objection to Utilitarianism, in this case, is the fact that the trolley was originally on the track with the five people trapped on it.
	www.essaysword.com /viewpapers/20630-The_Trolley_Problem_and_Utilitarianism.html (278 words)

	Trolley Problem - Forums
		We used unwanted study desk (around 90cm x >180cm) and use four 4 inches wheels (2 fixed direction and 2 freedirectional wheels).
		The problem is it shakes when we run it on rough places.
		I hope we can make a dolly or truck shoots that is smooth like high quality film.
	www.mediacollege.com /forum/showthread.php?t=1504 (290 words)

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