Normative Uncertainty without Theories
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8085597 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Revell Carr (0000-0002-3982-1637, corresponding author), Jennifer Rose Carr (University of California San Diego) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 747-762 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australasian Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-8402 • E-ISSN: 1470-6828 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00048402.2019.1697710 |
| OpenAlex | W3012521974 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 31 |
How should an agent act under normative uncertainty? We might extend the orthodox theory of rational choice to the case of uncertainty between competing normative theories. But this requires that the values assigned by different normative theories be comparable. This paper defends a strategy for avoiding the need for intertheoretic value comparisons: instead of comparing competing moral theories, I argue that values can be represented in terms of a de dicto specification of value. I provide a decision theory for de dicto values that generalises expected utility theory, and I compare the proposal with alternative strategies for avoiding the problem of intertheoretic comparisons
Decision theory · Economics · Epistemology · Expected utility hypothesis · Mathematical economics · Microeconomics · Normative · Value (mathematics · Value theory · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Free Will and Agency · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy
Absolutism vs. comparativism about value
Suppositional Desires and Rational Choice Under Moral Uncertainty
The hard problem of intertheoretic comparisons
Expected choiceworthiness and fanaticism
Metanormative regress
Towards a concept of uncertainty
Normative Uncertainty Without Unjustified Value Comparison
Normative uncertainty meets voting theory
The AI-design regress
Evaluative Uncertainty and Permissible Preference
Risk and Rationality
Rational Behaviour and Bargaining Equilibrium in Games and Social Situations
Does Moral Ignorance Exculpate?
Moral Uncertainty and its Consequences
Collective Choice and Social Welfare
Moral Uncertainty and the Principle of Equity among Moral Theories 1
Transformative Experience and Decision Theory
Social Choice and Individual Values
Epiphenomenal Qualia
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |