Thursday, March 5, 2009

More correspondence between PhD students.

Mandi to Alan

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10638

thoughts?


Alan to Mandi

Read it last week sucka. This is the sort of philosophy i do. It's hot
and sexy right now.

1 comment:

James said...

What a cool article. Trolley-ology. Crazy!

I thought about it for a second and said, push the fat man onto the tracks. Save the five even if it kills the fat man and wreaks my life with guilt.

I wonder if I have damage to my prefontal cortex or just an apathy for the fat.

Regardless, thought experiments have little to do with reality. What would I do if push really came to shove? That would be the thing to study- not merely asking people hypothetical questions.