As artificial intelligence continues to advance rapidly, concerns are growing about how machines, such as autonomous vehicles, will make moral decisions—particularly those where human lives are at ...

Should the driver of a crashing car be allowed to swerve into your lane and kill you, if she calculates that doing so would save her life? What if she'd die, too, but would save the lives of a ...

Thank you to everyone who reached out to me to after reading last week’s article; your thoughts have inspired me to share a few words on a classic psychological and philosophical dilemma commonly ...

Superhero stories are well known for their high stakes, which in the best cases have interesting moral dimensions as well. Such is the case when heroes confront a tragic dilemma, one from which they ...

Picture the following situation: You are taking a freshman-level philosophy class in college, and your professor has just asked you to imagine a runaway trolley barreling down a track toward a group ...