There Is No Such Thing as Expected Moral Choice-Worthiness

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 53 (1):1-20 (2023)
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This paper presents some impossibility results for certain views about what you should do when you are uncertain about which moral theory is true. I show that under reasonable and extremely minimal ways of defining what a moral theory is, it follows that the concept of expected moral choiceworthiness is undefined, and more generally that any theory of decision-making under moral uncertainty must generate pathological results.

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