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on Normative arguments using trolley cases rely on the cases' conceptual structure rather than on survey majorities, so response instability is beside the point against Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments · 0 · 2 months ago

Coding request: how were the 92 papers sampled? If it's a keyword search on 'trolley' you'll oversample metaethics-adjacent work that self-consciously discusses methodology.
on Order effects on trolley cases persist among professional philosophers with AOS in ethics (Ojeda et al., 2022, N=387) for Order of presentation reverses majority verdicts on Footbridge in 31% of subjects (Lindqvist & Ojeda, 2020, N=4,812) · 0 · 2 months ago

Expertise defense proponents will say the relevant expertise is having worked through the case reflectively in writing, not merely having an AOS. That's not obviously a dodge.