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  • Brian Duignan
    Brian Duignan is a senior editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. His subject areas include philosophy, law, social science, politics, political theory, and religion.

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Add new Web site: BCcampus Open Publishing - A Philosophy Reader - The Trolley Problem and The Prisoner's Dilemma. Dec 05, 2024
Add new Web site: Projects at Harvard - Solving the Trolley Problem. Sep 19, 2024
Add new Web site: CORE - The Modern Trolley Problem: Ethical and Economically-Sound Liability Schemes for Autonomous Vehicles. Jul 27, 2024
Add new Web site: ABC News - The trolley problem: How children view life and death decisions. May 31, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - The trolley problem: would you kill one person to save many others? Apr 02, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Colorado Boulder - The Trolley Problem. Dec 27, 2023
Add new Web site: Iowa State University - Department of Economics - Trolley Problems and Other Difficult Moral Questions. May 19, 2023
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Medical ethics and the trolley Problem. Feb 06, 2023
Top Questions updated. Nov 03, 2021
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