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Moral Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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Moral Uncertainty (Hardcover)
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and
selected open access locations. Very often we're uncertain about
what we ought, morally, to do. We don't know how to weigh the
interests of animals against humans, how strong our duties are to
improve the lives of distant strangers, or how to think about the
ethics of bringing new people into existence. But we still need to
act. So how should we make decisions in the face of such
uncertainty? Though economists and philosophers have extensively
studied the issue of decision-making in the face of uncertainty
about matters of fact, the question of decision-making given
fundamental moral uncertainty has been neglected. Philosophers
William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, and Toby Ord try to fill this
gap. Moral Uncertainty argues that there are distinctive norms that
govern how one ought to make decisions. It defends an
information-sensitive account of how to make such decisions by
developing an analogy between moral uncertainty and social choice,
arguing that the correct way to act in the face of moral
uncertainty depends on whether the moral theories in which one has
credence are merely ordinal, cardinal, or both cardinal and
intertheoretically comparable. It tackles the problem of how to
make intertheoretical comparisons, discussing potential solutions
and the implications of their view for metaethics and practical
ethics.
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