Rabbi Jeffrey Saks discusses a new book of moral philosophy about the famous “trolley problem”, the point of “life boat ethics”, and the role of philosophical problems and reasoning in education, with author David Edmonds, the co-founder of the popular Philosophy Bites podcast series (www.philosophybites.com), a senior research associate at the Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, and an award-winning radio feature maker at the BBC. “Would You Kill the Fat Man: The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong” is published by Princeton University Press.

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