Alexander Pruss's Blog

Frances Kamm uses her principle of triple effect to resolve the loop version of the trolley problem. On the loop version, as usual, the main...

Kamm’s Principle of Triple Effect (PTE) says something like this: Sometimes it is permissible to perform an act ϕ that has a good intende...

You are a secret opponent of the Nazi regime, and you happen to see Schmidt sneaking up on Hitler with an axe and murderous intent. You know...

It's noon. You and two other innocents, A and B , are imprisoned by a dictator in separate blast-proof cells. All the inno...