Most people would pull a lever to divert a trolley from five people to one, but they would not push a large man off a footbridge to stop the same trolley. The arithmetic is identical. The intuitions are opposite. Philippa Foot invented the trolley problem in 1967 not as a parlor game but as proof that consequentialism fails to capture how people actually reason. This unit uses the trolley problem and its variants to introduce the three major ethical traditions and to interrogate whether moral intuitions can be trusted.
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