Chapter 2. Spur of the Moment

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Figures xi
4. Prologue xiii
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Part 1. Philosophy and the Trolley
7. Chapter 1. Churchill’s Dilemma 3
8. Chapter 2. Spur of the Moment 8
9. Chapter 3. The Founding Mothers 13
10. Chapter 4. The Seventh Son of Count Landulf 26
11. Chapter 5. Fat Man, Loop, and Lazy Susan 35
12. Chapter 6. Ticking Clocks and the Sage of Königsberg 44
13. Chapter 7. Paving the Road to Hell 57
14. Chapter 8. Morals by Numbers 69
15. Part 2. Experiments and the Trolley
16. Chapter 9. Out of the Armchair 87
17. Chapter 10. It Just Feels Wrong 94
18. Chapter 11. Dudley’s Choice and the Moral Instinct 108
19. Part 3. Mind and Brain and the Trolley
20. Chapter 12. The Irrational Animal 127
21. Chapter 13. Wrestling with Neurons 135
22. Chapter 14. Bionic Trolley 153
23. Part 4. The Trolley and Its Critics
24. Chapter 15. A Streetcar Named Backfire 169
25. Chapter 16 The Terminal 175
26. Appendix: Ten Trolleys: A Rerun 183
27. Notes 193
28. Bibliography 205
29. Index 213