 |  Doing Philosophy: An Introduction Through Thought Experiments, 2/e Theodore Schick,
Muhlenberg College
Lewis Vaughn
The Problem of Relativism and Morality The End Justifies the Means: Good Makes Right
Thought ProbesThe Utility Machine: Is increasing utility by 1000% worth the price of 50,000 lives?
| Pinto Madness
(http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/SO77/dowie.html)
Article by Mark Dowie of Mother Jones exposing Ford Motor Company's decision to pay death benefits rather than reposition the gas tank in the Ford Pinto | | | | Utilitarianism
(http://anton_eclipse.tripod.com/utilitarianism.htm)
Article by Anthony Griffin discussing utilitarianism as it applies to the Ford Pinto case | | | | The Ford Pinto Case
(http://www.law.wfu.edu/courses/Law&value-Palmiter/Papers/1999/Leggett-pinto.html)
Legal analysis of the Ford Pinto case by Christopher Leggett | | | | The Value of Reality: Cypher and the Experience Machine
(http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_cmp/new_phil_experience.html)
Article by Christopher Grau exploring the value of virtual reality as depicted in the movie, The Matrix | | | | Nozick's Experience Machine
(http://www.philosophycircle.com/features/features35.html)
Discussion of what's at stake in plugging into Nozick's experience machine from the National University of Singapore | | | | Issues in Utilitarianism
(http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mponeill/reason&morality/utilitarianismIII.html)
Lecture notes from Martin O'Neill (Harvard University) on utilitarianism and the problem of utility monsters |
Organ Transplants: Is it morally permissible to kill a comatose terminal patient to harvest her organs in order to save the lives of others?
| Transplant and Trolley Examples
(http://huminf.uib.no/~dagelg/xml205&301/1%20gang/CAP%20presentation%202002/Eksempler%20so...
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Thomson's version of the transplant and trolley problems | | | | The Trolley Problem
(http://www.uwec.edu/philrel/Prism/PRISM2002/page0035.htm)
Analysis by Kevin Patrick Gelb (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire) | | | | Killing, Letting Die, and the Trolley Problem
(http://philosophy.wisc.edu/streiffer/PAPAS96Folder/960321Rachels.pdf)
Lecture notes by Robert Streiffer (University of Wisconsin, Madison) | | | | What Drives Moral Decision Making?
(http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/1022/)
Article by Steven Schultz discussing the Princeton brain research into the nature of moral decision making | | | | Another Perspective on the Doctrine of Double Effect
(http://mypage.campuspipeline.com/cbica/files/doubleeffect.htm)
Article by Camillo Bica from Philosophical Affairs Quarterly (1999) defending the doctrine of double effect as the solution to the trolley problem |
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