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Noah Birnbaum's avatar

Making inter-comparisons for moral theories is difficult, but modern moral philosophers in this space often use moral parliament (https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Parliamentary-Approach-to-Moral-Uncertainty.pdf) or maximizing expected choice-worthiness (see MacAskill’s entire book on Moral Uncertainty) here.

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Bob Jacobs's avatar

I know, I discussed some problems with MEC, as well as introduced some alternative methods that don't have these problems, in my post 'Resolving moral uncertainty with randomization': https://bobjacobs.substack.com/p/resolving-moral-uncertainty-with

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Noah Birnbaum's avatar

Sounds interesting -- will check this out. One interesting thought I’ve had here is that the normative realist’s wager falls into the same boat as any of the inter-moral theory stuff.

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