ABSTRACT
We are often plagued by moral uncertainty. We might be torn by doubt over rival ultimate ends, or conflicting ought statements, or inconsistent moral properties ascribed to an action. To manage these uncertainties, Chapter 7 recommends the active employment of reason. It shows that reason can employ the comparative decision theory of Chapter 4 to guide moral decisions. After making a case for moral cognitivism, it illustrates this employment in both morally instrumental and morally teleological decisions. The chapter then expands this approach to accommodate second-order uncertainty and anticipates several objections to this expansion. Finally, it ventures a few remarks on information poverty and the versatility of plausibility.
