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Sidetracked by trolleys: Why sacrificial moral dilemmas tell us little (or nothing) about utilitarian judgment.

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Research into moral decision-making has been dominated by sacrificial dilemmas where, in order to save several lives, it is necessary to sacrifice the life of another person. It is widely assumed that these dilemmas draw a sharp contrast between utilitarian and deontological approaches to morality, and thereby enable us to study the psychological and neural basis of utilitarian judgment. However, it has been previously shown that some sacrificial dilemmas fail to present a genuine contrast be...

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10.1080/17470919.2015.1023400

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
Philosophy Faculty
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Publisher:
Routledge
Journal:
Social neuroscience More from this journal
Volume:
10
Issue:
5
Pages:
551-560
Publication date:
2015-10-01
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1747-0927
ISSN:
1747-0919
Language:
English
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2015-11-28

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