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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

Keyword search across eleven journals plus hand-checking of citation trails from Foot and Thomson. Coding scheme and disagreement rates are in the appendix; two coders, kappa 0.78.
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

It moves by 7-9 points in the aggregate, which is compatible with any individual author's verdict being stable. Aggregate variance across philosophers is not instability within a philosopher's reasoning.