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Moral uncertainty for consequentialists
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Michael Bukoski
The Philosophical Quarterly, pqae139, https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqae139
Published: 18 November 2024
...Michael Bukoski consequentialism utilitarianism moral uncertainty maximize expected choiceworthiness decision procedure © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. 2024 This article...
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Rethinking our Assumptions about Moral Status
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Steve Clarke and Julian Savulescu
Published: 05 August 2021
... Robert Jason Scott transplantation artificial intelligence cyborgs human brain organoids human non-human chimeras moral uncertainty moral status post-humans slavery species membership uploaded minds When a being or entity has moral status its interests matter morally, for its own sake...
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Introduction
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Martin Peterson
Published: 18 May 2017
... precautionary measures Routley Richard sustainability autonomy Experience Machine nature natural resources noninstrumental value Nozick Robert fairness multidimensionality midlevel principle domain-specific principle casuistry moral uncertainty Beauchamp and Childress W. D. Ross The ethics...
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The Genesis of Probabilism
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Stefania Tutino
Published: 23 November 2017
... Bartolomé de Medina. Both of them engaged profoundly with uncertainty in their commentaries on moral theology and law, as well as in their hugely influential manuals for confessors. Whereas the former provided a crucial elaboration on the nature and significance of moral uncertainty, the latter identified...
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Published: 26 July 2018
... and deference; the possibility of moral epistemology; pure moral motivation; virtue ethics; moral uncertainty and value comparison; (in)coherence; the authority of formality; authoritatively normative concepts; ‘ought’ simpliciter ; and the rationality of ends....
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Oxford Studies in Metaethics 13
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Russ Shafer-Landau (ed.)
Published online: 23 August 2018
Published in print: 26 July 2018
... and deference; the possibility of moral epistemology; pure moral motivation; virtue ethics; moral uncertainty and value comparison; (in)coherence; the authority of formality; authoritatively normative concepts; ‘ought’ simpliciter ; and the rationality of ends....
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Metaethical Implications: Cognitivism versus Non-Cognitivism
William MacAskill and others
Published: 10 September 2020
...Moral Uncertainty . William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord, Oxford University Press (2020). © William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord.
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198722274.001.0001 This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms...
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A Dilemma for Internalism
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Brian Weatherson
Published: 20 March 2019
... Elizabeth example Hedden Brian MacAskill William demandingness objection Descartes René Elizabeth Princess of Bohemia rational dilemma Allais Maurice radical subjectivism radical objectivism Slote Michael Williamson Timothy moral uncertainty rational ignorance regress arguments subjectivism...
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Ethics and Risk Distribution for Autonomous Vehicles
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Nicholas G. Evans
Published: 22 September 2022
... in the kinds of philosophical, metaphilosophical, and empirical tools that should be marshalled to solve pressing ethical issues in AVs. We show this by examining cases in which AVs are required to make judgments under conditions of moral uncertainty, and when thinking about the widespread distribution...
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Published: 14 November 2022
.... Bykvist, K. 2017 . “ Moral Uncertainty. ” Philosophy Compass 12 (3). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/phc3.12408 Chen, L. 2009 . “ Curse of Dimensionality. ” In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, edited by Ling Liu and M. Tamer Özsu , pp. 545–546. Boston, MA...
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Punishment Theory Here and Now
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Adam J. Kolber
Published: 23 May 2024
... of proportionality “shortcut consequentialism” uncertainty racism systemic bias Real-world punishment criminal law consequentialism retributivism utilitarianism moral justification moral risk non-ideal theory moral uncertainty incarceration If you or I locked someone in a room for years at a time...
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Punishment for the Greater Good
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Adam J. Kolber
Published online: 23 May 2024
Published in print: 24 May 2024
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Moral Uncertainty
William MacAskill and others
Published online: 22 October 2020
Published in print: 10 September 2020
... of people living in the future. But the members of the government don t know how to weigh the interests of future people against the interests of presently existing people. So, again, the members of this government don t ultimately know what they ought to do. These are instances of moral uncertainty...
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Nihilism and the Abundance of Values
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Paul Katsafanas
Published: 15 December 2022
... Skepticism rests on certain assumptions about moral uncertainty, it is a reasonable philosophical position. Agents who accept Normative Weighting Skepticism experience a motivational problem called Normative Dissipation: they find that normative entities (reasons, values, or principles) formerly treated...
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A Contractualist Approach to Moral Uncertainty
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Michael Bukoski
Published: 15 December 2023
...Michael Bukoski, A Contractualist Approach to Moral Uncertainty In: Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics Volume 13 . Edited by: Mark Timmons, Oxford University Press. © Michael Bukoski 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198895909.003.0007 People are often uncertain about...
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Introduction
William MacAskill and others
Published: 10 September 2020
... take to answering the question is ‘divide and conquer’. We ask, for each of a number of different informational situations, what the correct theory of decision-making under moral uncertainty is given that informational situation. We pay particular attention to the situations of cardinal measurability...
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Conclusion
William MacAskill and others
Published: 10 September 2020
...Moral Uncertainty . William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist, and Toby Ord, Oxford University Press (2020). © William MacAskill, Krister Bykvist and Toby Ord.
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198722274.001.0001 This is an open access publication, available online and distributed under the terms...
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The Irrelevance of Moral Uncertainty
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Elizabeth Harman
Published: 01 July 2015
...Suppose you believe you’re morally required to φ but that it’s not a big deal; and yet you think it might be deeply morally wrong to φ. You are in a state of moral uncertainty, holding high credence in one moral view of your situation, while having a small credence in a radically...
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Designing AI with Rights, Consciousness, Self-Respect, and Freedom
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Eric Schwitzgebel and Mara Garza
Published: 17 September 2020
... risk moral uncertainty risk uncertainty unknown unknown wisdom first order utilitarian calculus precautionary policy utilitarian calculus dilemma interests slavery AI consciousness cheerfully suicidal AI servant consent Design Policy of the Excluded Middle killing death orgasm...
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Published: 09 November 2017
...Several philosophers have tried to develop a framework for decision-making in the face of fundamental moral uncertainty. Critics argue that the project is misguided, as it assumes that there’s a kind of “subjective” rightness that depends on which moral views might be true (rather...
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