“Buridain’s Ass” is regarded as a philosophical problem. It is, but not in the way current philosophers think it is. It is a philosophical problem because science is now philosophy, as Bertrand Russell realized.
The ass is faced with a problem of desire, not reason or logic. It wants both the straw or water with equal desire, and so is frozen by indecision and hence dies from hunger or thirst.
Hume put the issue this way: “Tis reasonable to prefer the destruction of the world to the scratching of one’s finger.” That is biological desire at work.
I think I sensed this in a paper I wrote at the University of Chicago titled “Reason and Risk in Moral Behavior” which I saved all these years after I escaped the program with a masters degree in 1962 I think it was. That was the year analytic philosophy replaced the Great Books approach of Adler, Hutchins, and McKeon to philosophy and took control of the department. I haven’t read the paper since because I know what is in it and it brings back bad recollections.