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Moral uncertainty and its consequences / Ted Lockhart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 211 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585369402
  • 9780585369402
  • 1280471794
  • 9781280471797
  • 9780195352160
  • 0195352165
  • 9786610471799
  • 6610471797
  • 9780195126105
  • 0195126106
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Moral uncertainty and its consequences.DDC classification:
  • 170 21
LOC classification:
  • BJ1419 .L63 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents; 1 Decision-making under Moral Uncertainty; 2 Principles for Decision-making under Moral Uncertainty; 3 Abortion and Moral Uncertainty; 4 Degrees of Moral Rightness; 5 Shall I Act Supererogatorily?; 6 Confidentiality and Moral Uncertainty; 7 A Decision-Theoretic Reconstruction of Roe v. Wade; 8 Long-Run Morality; 9 Retrospective; Appendix: Decisions with Uncertain Probabilities; Notes; Index.
Summary: We are often uncertain how to behave morally in complex situations. In this controversial study, Ted Lockhart contends that moral philosophy has failed to address how we make such moral decisions. Adapting decision theory to the task of decision-making under moral uncertainly, he proposes that we should not always act how we feel we ought to act, and that sometimes we should act against what we feel to be morally right. Lockhart also discusses abortion extensively and; proposes new ways to deal with the ethical and moral issues which surround it.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-205) and index.

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We are often uncertain how to behave morally in complex situations. In this controversial study, Ted Lockhart contends that moral philosophy has failed to address how we make such moral decisions. Adapting decision theory to the task of decision-making under moral uncertainly, he proposes that we should not always act how we feel we ought to act, and that sometimes we should act against what we feel to be morally right. Lockhart also discusses abortion extensively and; proposes new ways to deal with the ethical and moral issues which surround it.

Contents; 1 Decision-making under Moral Uncertainty; 2 Principles for Decision-making under Moral Uncertainty; 3 Abortion and Moral Uncertainty; 4 Degrees of Moral Rightness; 5 Shall I Act Supererogatorily?; 6 Confidentiality and Moral Uncertainty; 7 A Decision-Theoretic Reconstruction of Roe v. Wade; 8 Long-Run Morality; 9 Retrospective; Appendix: Decisions with Uncertain Probabilities; Notes; Index.

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