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Philosophy vs Trolleyology - What's the difference?

philosophy | trolleyology |

As nouns the difference between philosophy and trolleyology

is that philosophy is the love of wisdom while trolleyology is an area of philosophy dealing with the kind of moral dilemma typified by the trolley problem.

As a verb philosophy

is to philosophize.

philosophy

English

(wikipedia philosophy)

Alternative forms

* philosophie (obsolete) * phylosophie (obsolete) * phylosophy (nonstandard)

Noun

  • (uncountable, originally) The love of wisdom.
  • (uncountable) An academic discipline that seeks truth through reasoning rather than empiricism.
  • * 1661 , , The Life of the most learned, reverend and pious Dr. H. Hammond
    • During the whole time of his abode in the university he generally spent thirteen hours of the day in study; by which assiduity besides an exact dispatch of the whole course of philosophy , he read over in a manner all classic authors that are extant
  • (countable) A comprehensive system of belief.
  • (countable) A view or outlook regarding fundamental principles underlying some domain.
  • (countable) A general principle (usually moral).
  • (archaic) A broader branch of (non-applied) science.

    • Meronyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * analytic philosophy * antiphilosophy * continental philosophy * personal philosophy * philosophize * philosophy of mind

    Related terms

    * philology * philosopher * philosophic * philosophical * philosophically

    Verb

  • To philosophize.
  • *, II.12:
    • Plato hath (in my seeming) loved this manner of Philosophying , Dialogue wise in good earnest, that therby he might more decently place in sundry mouthes the diversity and variation of his owne conceits.

    See also

    * * ideology

    trolleyology

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (slang, humorous) An area of philosophy dealing with the kind of moral dilemma typified by the (trolley problem).
  • *{{quote-book, year=2008, date=January 15, author=Kwame Anthony Appiah, title=Experiments in Ethics,
    • passage=Trolleyology . . . by now the philosophical commentary on these cases makes the Talmud look like Cliffs Notes, and is surely massive enough to stop any runaway trolley in its tracks. }}
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=February 3, author=Paul Bloom, title=Morality Studies, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=It used to be that the only people who had even heard of such dilemmas were professional philosophers, but now it seems as if everyone is doing trolleyology . }}
  • * 2010 , Angela A. Stanton, Mellani Day, Isabell Welpe, Neuroeconomics and the firm (page 249)
    • Patients with damage to this area are overwhelmingly utilitarian in their moral judgments in the case studies presented to them – trolleyology and many others.