Here is the 34-word abstract of our latest paper, a work-in-progress with the title “Trolley Problems“:

This paper proposes a novel and probabilistic solution to the famous “trolley problem” in moral philosophy. In short, we would solve the trolley problem by conducting an auction from behind a veil of ignorance.

We have been thinking about trolley problems (there are at least two standard versions of the problem), off and on, since the summer of 2005. Our thinking has evolved during this time, and our paper will finally be published in the Drake Law Review Discourse this fall.

           What trolley?