Thomson's Trolley Switch

Solving the Trolley Problem

One might despair of ever arriving at a principle adequate to capturing and accommodating our intuitions about the full range of cases that have come to be known as “trolley problems” (roughly speaking, cases where one must choose whether to kill some to save others). But suppose there were such a principle, as indeed I imagine there probably is. For the moment, just call it Q. Is there such a ...

Solving the Trolley Problem

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Published 2016 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The Trolley Problem has baffled ethicists for decades (Foot 1978; Thomson 1985; Fischer and Ravizza 1992) and has, more recently, become a focal point for research in moral psychology (Petrinovich, O’Neill, and Jorgensen 1993; Greene et al. 2001; Edmonds 2013; Greene 2015). As the Trolley Problem’s interdisciplinary histor...

Aids to Tray and Trolley Setting

work done in the past. This is an experiment which, if it is to be successful , will have to combine all that is good in the old system with the advantages and good points of the new. It is an experiment in which I personally believe the Cinderella of Medicine will become the most attractive branch of medicine. One of the great dangers of State medicine is that it may become impersonal. There i...

The contents of the resuscitation trolley.

This article describes the contents of a standard hospital resuscitation trolley for cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Each item is discussed in terms of its function and the rationale for its inclusion.

The Trolley and the Sorites