Philippa Foot Concepts

Future Politics: Living Together in a World Transformed by Tech

by Jamie Susskind · 3 Sep 2018 · 533pp

–5. 44. Aaron Perzanowksi and Jason Schultz, The End of Ownership: Personal Property in the Digital Economy (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2016), 4. 45. See Philippa Foot, ‘The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect’, in Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press

Willful: How We Choose What We Do

by Richard Robb · 12 Nov 2019 · 202pp · 58,823 words

be demonstrated by looking at two enduring moral puzzles: the merchant’s choice posed by Cicero in 44 BCE and the trolley problem posed by Philippa Foot in 1967.3 The merchant’s choice belongs in the purposeful category, where options can be evaluated, ranked, and traded. Choices in the trolley problem

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principles. At the opposite extreme from the merchant’s choice is the trolley problem. There are many versions of the thought experiment originally posed by Philippa Foot; in one of the most famous, five people are standing on trolley tracks with a runaway trolley car hurtling toward them. You are standing on

System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot

by Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami and Jeremy M. Weinstein · 6 Sep 2021

with their children, what should the autonomous system that pilots the car be programmed to do? Consider a hypothetical dilemma introduced by the English philosopher Philippa Foot in the late 1960s, the “Trolley Problem,” that has now become a real problem for engineers. In the context of autonomous cars, the problem asks

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

by Shane Parrish · 22 Nov 2019 · 147pp · 39,910 words

? Do you continue on and kill the five, or do you divert and kill the one? This experiment was first proposed in modern form by Philippa Foot in her paper “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect,”3 and further considered extensively by Judith Jarvis Thomson in “The

How Much Is Enough?: Money and the Good Life

by Robert Skidelsky and Edward Skidelsky · 18 Jun 2012 · 279pp · 87,910 words

can be pursued, but one would be hard put upon to pursue joy. Joy is paradoxically congruent with suffering, hence its prominence in Christian writing. Philippa Foot mentions a Quaker woman who after much hardship and persecution spoke of her “joyous life” preaching the Word. “She did not speak of her life

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by its relation to certain centrally important human goods: love, childbirth, the completion of an important piece of work. “It does not make sense,” writes Philippa Foot in her excellent discussion of the subject, to suggest that someone found deep happiness in, say, a victory in a running dispute with a neighbour

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. Layard, Happiness, p. 13. 32. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, p. 247. 33. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1922), 6.43. 34. Philippa Foot, Natural Goodness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), p. 85. 35. Ibid., p. 88. 36. Samuel Brittan, “Commentary: A Deceptive Eureka Moment,” in Johns and Ormerod

On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

by Nate Silver · 12 Aug 2024 · 848pp · 227,015 words

was found. Dakota’s story was a real-world example of what philosophers call a trolley problem, a moral dilemma first posed by the philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967. The original version was this: You’re driving a trolley that is speeding along the tracks, when to your horror you discover that

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that resulted in the first successful detonation of an atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project. Trolley problem: A moral dilemma first proposed by the philosopher Philippa Foot. The original version involved a trolley that had lost its brakes and was on a collision course to kill some number of track workers, but

The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success

by Kevin Dutton · 15 Oct 2012 · 280pp · 85,091 words

uniform, empathy is schizophrenic. There are two distinct varieties: hot and cold. Consider, for example, the following conundrum (case 1), first proposed by the philosopher Philippa Foot: A railway trolley is hurtling down a track. In its path are five people who are trapped on the line and cannot escape. Fortunately, you

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also included a third type of dilemma, which they termed “impersonal.” This took the form of the original version of the Trolley Problem devised by Philippa Foot (see chapter 1), in which the choice (initiated by the flick of a switch) is whether to divert a runaway train away from its present

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, doi:10.1038/mp.2008.104. 10 Consider, for example, the following conundrum (case 1) … The Trolley Problem was first proposed in this form by Philippa Foot in “The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of the Double Effect,” in Virtues and Vices: And Other Essays in Moral Philosophy (Berkeley: University of

Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

by John Markoff · 24 Aug 2015 · 413pp · 119,587 words

prevent five deaths at the cost of one? First posed as a thought problem in a paper about the ethics of abortion by British philosopher Philippa Foot in 1967, it has led to endless philosophical discussions on the implications of choosing the lesser evil.9 More recently it has been similarly framed

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Institute, Columbia University, January 27, 2013, http://sustainablemo bility.ei.columbia.edu/files/2012/12/Transforming-Personal-Mobility-Jan-27-20132.pdf. 9.William Grimes, “Philippa Foot, Renowned Philosopher, Dies at 90,” New York Times, October 9, 2010, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/us/10foot.html. 10.“Transportation and Material

The Comforts of a Muddy Saturday

by Alexander McCall Smith · 22 Sep 2008 · 223pp · 66,428 words

recently completed and that I think is suitable for publication in the Review. You may be familiar, of course, with the famous Trolley Problem that Philippa Foot raised all those years ago in Virtues and Vices. I have recently given this matter considerable thought and feel that I have a new approach

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thought, and she realised that she should not think it. But the delicious, childish fantasy came back. “It is not so simple,” Dove continued. “Since Philippa Foot first posed the problem, a number of writers have examined it in greater detail, most notably Judith Jarvis Thomson, who changed the conditions of the

The Lost Art of Gratitude

by Alexander McCall Smith · 21 Sep 2009 · 249pp · 71,432 words

that shows us that the world is a just place. We’ve always wanted that. We want human flourishing, as Philippa Foot would put it.” “One of your philosophers?” “Yes, Professor Philippa Foot. She wrote a book called Natural Goodness. I would offer to show it to you had I not just agreed not