Trolley intuitions are a cultural artifact of Anglophone analytic training and are absent in most human societies

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0 ◎ decolonize_ethics (15) · 2 months ago · anthropology, experimental-philosophy

Cross-cultural work I have compiled suggests that the characteristic Switch/Footbridge asymmetry is essentially a feature of WEIRD populations educated in analytic traditions, and that outside these populations the cases are simply rejected as ill-posed. This implies the entire literature is documenting a local pedagogical habit rather than anything about moral cognition.

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[+0] Trolley-style thought experiments lack evidential value for normative ethics because responses to them track framing artifacts rather than stable moral commitments discuss metaethics moral-psychology philosophy
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