scholarly journals Moral Disagreement in Theories of Practical Ethics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norbert Paulo
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disagreement ◽  
Practical Ethics

scholarly journals Practical Ethics Given Moral Uncertainty

Utilitas ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-245
Author(s):  
William MacAskill
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Interaction Effects ◽  
Moral Disagreement ◽  
Normative Ethics ◽  
Moral Issues ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Practical Ethics

AbstractA number of philosophers have claimed that we should take not just empirical uncertainty but also fundamental moral uncertainty into account in our decision-making, and that, despite widespread moral disagreement, doing so would allow us to draw robust lessons for some issues in practical ethics. In this article, I argue that, so far, the implications for practical ethics have been drawn too simplistically. First, the implications of moral uncertainty for normative ethics are far more wide-ranging than has been noted so far. Second, one can't straightforwardly argue from moral uncertainty to particular conclusions in practical ethics, both because of ‘interaction’ effects between moral issues, and because of the variety of different possible intertheoretic comparisons that one can reasonably endorse.

Practical Ethics

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey N. Younggren
Keyword(s):  
Practical Ethics

Reality and Morality

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy Dunaway
Keyword(s):  
Moral Realism ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Moral Disagreement ◽  
Moral Language ◽  
Moral Properties ◽  
Realist View

This book develops and defends a framework for moral realism. It defends the idea that moral properties are metaphysically elite, or privileged parts of reality. It argues that realists can hold that this makes them highly eligible as the referents for our moral terms, an application of a thesis sometimes called reference magnetism. And it elaborates on these theses by introducing some natural claims about how we can know about morality, by having beliefs that are free from a kind of risk of error. This package of theses in metaphysics, meta-semantics, and epistemology is motivated with a view to an explanation of possible moral disagreements. Many writers have emphasized the scope of moral disagreement, and have given compelling examples of possible users of moral language who appear to be genuinely disagreeing, rather than talking past one another, with their use of moral language. What has gone unnoticed is that there are limits to these possible disagreements, and not all possible users of moral language are naturally interpreted as capable of genuine disagreement. The realist view developed in this book can explain both the extent of, and the limits to, moral disagreement, and thereby has explanatory power that counts significantly in its favor.

Depoliticising the Polls: Voting Abstention and Moral Disagreement

Politics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-51
Author(s):  
Iñigo González-Ricoy
Keyword(s):  
Moral Disagreement
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