Ambassador Kurt Volker offers three arguments in his column “Ukraine is doing Nato’s job for it.” First, he argues that if Russia isn’t defeated in Ukraine, none of the Baltic states or even Finland ...

The big thinkers at Aperture analyze the ethical dilemmas behind the classic trolley problem.

Before describing the “trolley problem,” I should note that the moral dilemma it poses has elicited a variety of responses. Michael Sandel, professor of philosophy at Harvard University, began a ...

This exploration moves past the classic trolley problem to examine how real‑world moral choices are rarely black and white. Philosophers and ethicists reveal how context, culture, and consequences ...

Researchers have developed a new experiment to better understand what people view as moral and immoral decisions related to driving vehicles, with the goal of collecting data to train autonomous ...

The Italians and Spanish are renowned for their ability to build beautiful cathedrals. We let the French be runners-up, and to my eye, the British churches are too dark.

Philosophers have long used the “trolley problem” to debate issues in ethics around how we treat others. Reading a recent personal blog by Marc Dubois, Executive Director of MSF UK, on why older ...

New research shows how easily our imagined choices collapse under the weight of real consequences. Here’s why overthinking them never helps. For decades, the “trolley problem” has encouraged us to ...