Have you ever heard of the trolley problem? It’s a thought experiment that puts the subject at the scene of an impending disaster. A runaway trolley careens toward five people ruthlessly tied to the ...

Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

Review of Would You Kill The Fat Man? The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us About Right and Wrong. By David Edmonds. Princeton University Press. 220 pp. $19.95 You may well be familiar ...

Among the many lessons “The Good Place” tried to teach us, along with how to be “good” and what we owe to each other, was how to make a difficult decision when there is really no good choice. The ...

You have probably heard of the trolley problem. If you haven't, it's a thought experiment where an out-of-control trolley is barreling toward a group of people. The ethical dilemma gives a bystander a ...