The Trolley Problem Mysteries
F.M. Kamm and Edited by Eric Rakowski
Author Information
F.M. Kamm, Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences within the Philosophy Department at Harvard University., and Edited by Eric Rakowski, Edward C. Halbach Jr. Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
F. M. Kamm is Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a Professor of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Sciences within the Philosophy Department at Harvard University. Kamm is also author of Intricate Ethics (OUP 2010) and Bioethical Prescriptions (OUP 2013), and others.
Eric Rakowski is Edward C. Halbach Jr. Professor of Law at University of California Berkeley.
Contributors:
Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N. R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto. He previously served as professor of philosophy at the University of Calgary and as a visiting fellow at Oxford. He is a member of the Canadian and American Philosophical Associations and an editorial board member of Ethics. Hurka's work centers on moral and political philosophy, with emphases on normative ethical theory and perfectionist moral theories. His has written on issues of punishment, population, nationalism, friendship and war. Hurka's many contributions include two works on perfectionist moral theory: Perfectionism (Oxford, 1993) and Virtue, Vice, and Value (Oxford, 2001). He is also the author of The Best Things in Life: A Guide to What Really Matters (Oxford, 2010) and British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing (Oxford, 2015).
Shelly Kagan is Clark Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Prior to his appointment at Yale, Kagan taught at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kagan's work focuses on moral philosophy, and more specifically on normative ethics. He has published widely, on topics including well-being, desert, mortality, and Kantianism. However, the main focus of his research has been consequentialism and its contrast with deontological moral theories. Kagan is the author of numerous influential works including The Limits of Morality (Oxford, 1989), which offers a defense of consequentialism, Normative Ethics (Westview, 1997), Death (Yale, 2012), and The Geometry of Desert (Oxford, 2012).
Frances Kamm is Lucius Littauer Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, and Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. Kamm's work focuses on normative and applied ethics. Her research has addressed issues in nonconsequentialist ethical theory and the moral problems of mortality, bioethics, torture, and war. She serves on the editorial board of Philosophy & Public Affairs, among other journals, and on the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Edmond J. Safra Ethics Center. She has held Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Eric Rakowski is Halbach Professor of Trust & Estates Law at the University of California at Berkeley. His philosophical work is concerned primarily with questions of distributive justice, trade-offs between lives, and biomedical ethical problems. He is the author of Equal Justice (Oxford, 1991).
Judith Thomson is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at MIT. She has held visiting appointments at the Australian National University, the University of Pittsburgh, the University of California at Berkeley, and Yale Law School. Thomson is widely recognized for her work in metaphysics, the theory of action, causation, and ethics, where her writing on moral rights has earned special attention. Her books include Acts and Other Events (Cornell, 1977), Rights, Restitution, and Risk (Harvard, 1986), The Realm of Rights (Harvard, 1990), Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity (with Gilbert Harman) (Wiley-Blackwell, 1996), Goodness and Advice (Princeton, 2003), and Normativity (Open Court, 2008). Thomson has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Centre for Advanced Study at Oslo. She is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
