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 ...

Sylvia Terbeck presents two versions of the trolley problem: one in which you divert a trolley that will kill five people so it only kills one other person, and another in which you push someone into ...

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 ...