Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vpsfw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-23T17:30:58.348Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Appendix: Six Trolley Problem Experiments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

John Mikhail
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Get access

Summary

This appendix describes six of the original trolley problem experiments that my colleagues Cristina Sorrentino and Elizabeth Spelke and I conducted from 1995 to 1999, when I was a visiting graduate student, research affiliate, and lecturer in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our findings were first presented at the Cognitive Science Society in 1998, the Society for Research in Child Development in 1999 and 2001, and various department seminars and colloquia from 1998 to 2002. The experiments were initially summarized in a 92-page manuscript, Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery, the Rescue Principle, the First Principle of Practical Reason, and the Principle of Double Effect, which I wrote in the spring of 2002 as part of my J.D. thesis at Stanford Law School, under the direction of Professors Tom Grey and Mark Kelman. A revised and expanded version, Aspects of the Theory of Moral Cognition: Investigating Intuitive Knowledge of the Prohibition of Intentional Battery and the Principle of Double Effect, Georgetown University Law Center Public Law & Legal Theory Working Paper No. 762385 (Mikhail 2002a), was published on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in July 2005 and is available for download at the following web site: http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=762385. Both manuscripts have circulated for many years and have been assigned in graduate seminars at leading research universities.

Type
Chapter
Information
Elements of Moral Cognition
Rawls' Linguistic Analogy and the Cognitive Science of Moral and Legal Judgment
, pp. 319 - 360
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2011

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×