Showing posts with label Covid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Covid. Show all posts

Sunday, January 10, 2021

Testing Times

 Testing Times

 

 

Car parks may sometimes be a welcome sight, but they are seldom a pretty one. Alexandra Park and Palace in North London, for all its attractive features (not least the views) has some pretty grim examples.

 

Fortunately, the largest area reserved for cars is in a corner by the southerly road entrance, screened by the slope and by trees. It is known as the “Paddock” car park – a name connected to the fact that for many years there was a small but popular racecourse on the flat expanse of the Park.

Saturday, July 4, 2020

The Covid Trolley Problem

The Covid Trolley Problem

 

 

Every student of modern Anglophone philosophy is familiar with the “Trolley Problem”, a thought experiment designed to tease out our moral intuitions when confronted with life-and-death dilemmas.