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was, for a time, used by the United States military for troop instruction. Sharp was also among the first philosophers to perform empirical studies of moral intuitions, conducting surveys at the University of Wisconsin, both of highly educated liberal arts students and of agricultural students who
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The Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize was established by the American Philosophical Society in 1990 to honor Sharp's memory. It is awarded every other year to the best unpublished essay or monograph on the philosophy of war and peace.
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in which a switchman must choose between saving many strangers or his own daughter from a runaway train. A brief summary of Sharp's philosophy may be found in
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ethical positions. He is credited with being the first moral philosopher to use a variant of the now famous
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Sharp, Frank Chapman (January 1898). "An Objective Study of Some Moral Judgments".
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had had limited formal education. Sharp believed that these studies confirmed his
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The Aesthetic Element in Morality and Its Place in a Utilitarian Theory of Morals
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during the 1907-1908 term. Among Sharp's other publications are
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in 1887 and his Ph.D. at the Konigliche-Friedrich-Wilhelms
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A Study of the Influence of Custom on Moral Judgment
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American philosopher
ethics
business ethics
Amherst College
University of Berlin
University of Wisconsin
American Philosophical Society
business ethics
utilitarian
trolley problem
Richard Brandt's
Business Ethics: Studies in Fair Competition
doi
10.2307/1411759
JSTOR
1411759
"Frank Chapman Sharp Memorial Prize - the American Philosophical Association"
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1866 births
1943 deaths
Amherst College alumni
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Philosophers from Wisconsin
American moral psychologists

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