THE TROLLEY PROBLEM, OR WOULD YOU THROW THE FAT GUY OFF THE BRIDGE?: A PHILOSOPHICAL CONUNDRUM
Book ID/图书代码： 14560012B57666
English Summary/英文概要： A runaway trolley is hurtling down the track, brakes gone, aiming directly at five track workers who won’t be able to get out of the way. You happen to be standing next to a lever that would reroute the trolley onto a spur where one worker is in the trolley’s path. Would you pull the lever and reroute the train so it kills one person instead of five? How about this scenario: same runaway trolley, same five people in its path but this time there’s no spur. You’re observing the action from a footbridge over the tracks. The only way to stop the tram is to put a heavy weight in its path. A very large man happens to be standing next to you - do you push him onto the track in order to save the five workers? The Trolley Problem is an ethical thought experiment dreamed up in 1967 by British philosopher Philippa Foot, and further developed by American thinker Judith Jarvis Thomson in the ’70s (she added the big man on the bridge). Since then, philosophers and thinkers have devised a variety of iterations of the problem, each adding its own twist on the moral dilemma, and The Runaway Trolley explores these through the lens of a trial in the court of public opinion - readers are members of the jury. Cathcart presents two opposing philosophical takes on the problem through the lawyers closing statements, but also offers up several alternative outlooks on related conundrums through a variety of other media - newspaper editorials, blogs, a police report, a debate, and overheard conversations.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书虚拟了一桩符合“电车难题”情境的事件及随之而来的审判，检控官、法官、被告、受害人家属、陪审团、律师、媒体、大学师生、电视观众、论坛网友等各路人马纷纷登场，各自表态，一场思维的激烈碰撞就此展开。作者还结合案情与审判进程中的讨论热点，言简意赅地介绍了古往今来若干大哲学家 的主要思想与贡献，展示诸位先哲对于当今社会的影响。全书生动有趣，全景式地呈现了诞生数十年来讨论不休且越来越热烈的“电车难题”，堪称一次为广大公民讲授的伦理通识课。【媒体推荐】
文笔从容，条理明晰，内容精简。 ——《纽约时报书评》
透过一次虚构的审判，首次将大名鼎鼎的“电车难题”巧妙而趣味盎然地予以全景式呈现。 ——《华尔街日报》
【名家推荐】
这部小书如此生动有趣，就像一次堪称典范的授课，精彩绝伦地介绍了“电车难题”这个著名伦理问题。——约翰•佩里（斯坦福大学哲学荣休教授，《拖拉一点也无妨》作者）
【编辑推荐】
★首次以图书形式全景呈现全世界大学课堂热烈探究的超级讨论题“电车难题”。
★哈佛大学桑德尔教授超级课程“公正”开堂引题，该课程同名图书《公正：该如何做是好》畅销全球。
★ 深刻性比肩《洞穴奇案》，但内容生动有趣，阅读门槛更低。(DB)
Awards/获奖情况：“Unflaggingly engaging, witty, and completely true to the underlying philosophical issues.”—Robert Paul Wolff, author of About Philosophy
About the Author/作者介绍： 托马斯•卡思卡特 | Thomas Cathcart：毕业于哈佛大学哲学专业，此后进入芝加哥大学研究神学。履历丰富，职业多变，从大学授课到临终关怀，均有涉足。67岁时开始写作生涯，首部作品（合著）《柏拉图与鸭嘴兽一块上酒吧？》（Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar…）一炮而红，畅销全球。目前与妻子居住在纽约。
Tom Cathcart spent most of his career in health care, including directing a boarding home for people with HIV/AIDS in Portland, Maine. His old college pal, Danny Klein, enlisted him as co-author of a book about how jokes can illuminate philosophical ideas. To their shock, after being rejected by 40 publishers, "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar" became an international bestseller. Two more joint books followed. Now Cathcart has published his first solo effort, "The Trolley Problem, or Would You Throw the Fat Guy Off the Bridge?" Tom is married to Eloise Balasco Cathcart, who coordinates the graduate program in nursing administration at NYU.
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