Eminent domain can be understood through the Trolley Problem, which is a philosophical thought experiment. The government can take private land and property for public use through eminent domain in ...

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Before describing the “trolley problem,” I should note that the moral dilemma it poses has elicited a variety of responses. Michael Sandel, professor of philosophy at Harvard University, began a ...

Emily N. Dial ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a Philosophy concentrator in Adams House. One October afternoon, as has become habit, I found myself walking to a nearby coffee shop between classes.

Ugh, I hate ethical questions like this, because they always describe situations that would never happen in real life without a million other conditions that no ethical test could ever account for.

Philosophers have long used the “trolley problem” to debate issues in ethics around how we treat others. Reading a recent personal blog by Marc Dubois, Executive Director of MSF UK, on why older ...

In one case, they put the participants in charge of a speedboat and had them choose which of two groups of swimmers to save from drowning. While the practical results are the same—one group is saved, ...