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When duties collide

When duties collide

1.[3p]

What is the circularity in Kant's argument about the murderer at the door?

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The answer is: The asymmetry in responsibility comes from the prior claim that lying is a violation, not from any difference in what can be foreseen
The answer is: The asymmetry in responsibility comes from the prior claim that lying is a violation, not from any difference in what can be foreseen
The answer is: The asymmetry in responsibility comes from the prior claim that lying is a violation, not from any difference in what can be foreseen

2.[3p]

On Korsgaard's repair, why may you lie to the murderer?

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The answer is: The murderer has stepped outside the conditions under which consent is possible, so respecting agency no longer means giving him accurate information
The answer is: The murderer has stepped outside the conditions under which consent is possible, so respecting agency no longer means giving him accurate information
The answer is: The murderer has stepped outside the conditions under which consent is possible, so respecting agency no longer means giving him accurate information

3.[2p]

How many prima facie duties does Ross list?

CorrectNot quite: 7

4.[3p]

What is the best evidence that an overridden duty does not simply lapse?

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The answer is: The residue: you still owe an explanation and an apology for the broken promise
The answer is: The residue: you still owe an explanation and an apology for the broken promise
The answer is: The residue: you still owe an explanation and an apology for the broken promise

5.[3p]

What is the structural objection to threshold deontology?

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The answer is: At 999 lives the act is absolutely forbidden and at 1,001 it is permitted, so two deaths carry a weight they carry nowhere else
The answer is: At 999 lives the act is absolutely forbidden and at 1,001 it is permitted, so two deaths carry a weight they carry nowhere else
The answer is: At 999 lives the act is absolutely forbidden and at 1,001 it is permitted, so two deaths carry a weight they carry nowhere else

6.[3p]

Which conditions belong to the doctrine of double effect?

Select all that apply

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The answer is: The act itself must not be wrong independently of its consequences, The bad effect must not be the means to the good effect, The agent must intend the good effect and merely foresee the bad one

7.[3p]

Why does the loop variant trouble the doctrine of double effect?

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The answer is: The one man's body is what stops the trolley, so his death is the means, yet most people judge the case like the switch case
The answer is: The one man's body is what stops the trolley, so his death is the means, yet most people judge the case like the switch case
The answer is: The one man's body is what stops the trolley, so his death is the means, yet most people judge the case like the switch case

8.[3p]

Match each contribution to the trolley literature to its author and year.

  • The original runaway trolley case

  • The bystander at the switch and the man on the footbridge

  • The loop variant

  • Large sample testing of the switch and footbridge pair

  • Thomson in 1985

  • Hauser and colleagues in 2007

  • Foot in 1967

  • Thomson in 1976

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The original runaway trolley case: Foot in 1967 The bystander at the switch and the man on the footbridge: Thomson in 1976 The loop variant: Thomson in 1985 Large sample testing of the switch and footbridge pair: Hauser and colleagues in 2007

9.[2p]

In Hauser's 2007 study most respondents could give a coherent justification for their own pair of trolley answers.

The answer is: False
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