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HOW TO DELIBERATE WELL ABOUT ACTING BADLY: WHY MORAL IMAGINATION IS A BETTER RESOURCE THAN MORAL THEORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2011

Timothy Chappell
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Abstract

Tim the terrorist: We have Tim the terrorist in custody, and we know that he knows where the bomb is that his group have secretly planted somewhere in central London, and we know that if we torture him hard enough he will reliably tell us where it is in time for us to defuse it, and we know that there is no other way of getting him to tell us, and we know that if we don't defuse it the bomb will kill thousands of innocent people. So: what to do?

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 10 , Issue 29 , Autumn 2011 , pp. 71 - 82
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2011

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1 Thanks to Liz Ashford and Tim Mulgan for discussion.