Index
abortion, 144â46, 157, 163
absolutism
Catholic tradition and, 31
definition of, 26
label for, 26â27
moral dilemmas and, 28
PDE and, 27â30, 110, 182
source of, 30â31, 182
See also exceptionless rules
agency, direct vs. indirect, 167â69, 193â94, 199â200
agent-based definition of intended effects. See strict definition of intended effects
agents
corruption of, 13â15, 17â18, 21â22, 81â83, 130â31
effects, relation to, 19â20
judgments of, 76, 84â85, 195â96
perspective of, 34â35, 144, 170, 188â89
trolley cases and, 111â12, 116
victims, relation to, 129â30
See also character: intentions
alcoholic case, 18
allowing vs. doing, 28, 32â33
Anscombe, G. E. M.
bombing cases, 173â74
cave case, 59â60, 62â63
definition of intentions, 64
justification of PDE, 110
principle of side effects, 9
pumping water case, 60, 174â75
role in introducing PDE to secular Anglo-American philosophy, 173
under a description, 80â81
withdrawing child support case, 175â76
apologies, 85â86, 139
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 112, 121â22, 138â40, 171â72
arm-twisting case, 32â33, 188â89
assessments, 77
backsolving, 39, 64
See also Knobe effect
backpack case, 135â36
See also footbridge case
bank robbery cases, 43, 51, 63â64
Bennett, Jonathan, 83â84
bodily movements, 73, 79, 80â81, 86â87
bombing cases
explosion above a city case, 193â94
Hiroshima bombing, 172â73
Lewis bomber case, 193â94
midnight bombing case, 91â95
munitions grief case, 164â65, 196â97
Nagasaki bombing, 172â73
noon bombing, 91â95
overdetermined surrender case, 45â46, 191â92
Quinn and, 167â68, 193â94, 200
repopulated city case, 163â64
Scanlon and, 89â94
tactical bombings, 45, 83â84, 174
See also strategic bombing case; terror bombing case
Boyle, Joseph, 110, 170, 186â88
brain lesions, 132
bridge case. See footbridge case; rope bridge cases
bystander at the switch case. See switch case
bystander on the bridge. See footbridge case
cancer cases, 113
See also hysterectomy case
capital punishment. See executioner case
Cartesianism, 56, 170
Catholic tradition
craniotomy case and, 140â41, 178â79
PDE and, x, xii, 7, 31
See also Aquinas, St. Thomas; Gury, Jean Pierre
Cavanaugh, Thomas, 110
cave case
agentâs intention in, 49â51
Anscombe and, 59â60, 62â63, 175
Foot and, 37â38, 49, 179â80
cervical cancer. See hysterectomy case
chairman case. See Knobe effect
character
Catholic tradition and, xii, 31
corruption of, 13, 14â15, 17â19, 21, 81â85
intentions and, 19â24
Kantian rule and, 130â31
moral solipsism and, 17
parenting and, 9, 21, 83
PDEâs justification and, 12â15, 46, 62â63, 81â84, 148
chess, 13, 42, 44, 87â88, 133â34
children
desires of, 15
doll case, 82â83
envy cases, 4, 17â18, 22, 24, 125
intentions of, 40â41, 152
mumbled epithet case, 11â13, 16, 83
offensive toy case, 4, 11â13
See also parenting
Chisholm, Roderick, 187
closeness
Anscombe and, 59â60, 62â63
cave case and, 37â38, 59â60, 62â63, 179â80
craniotomy case and, 149, 152
definitions of, 41â42, 62
Foot and, 37â38, 59, 179â180
gerrymandering and appeals to, 54â55, 145
PDEâs justification and appeals to, 7, 62â64
problem of, 37â38, 59â64
repopulated city case and, 164, 199â200
sniper cases and, 63â64
stuttering case and, 42â43, 60â61, 186â87
trolley problem and appeals to, 119
See also di...