Show simple item record

FieldValueLanguage
dc.contributor.authorWelsh, Clyde
dc.date.accessioned2018-09-27
dc.date.available2018-09-27
dc.date.issued2017-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/18824
dc.description.abstractFirst lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): When we are confronted with decisions of moral significance, the ideal course of action, at least according to most moral philosophers, is to look to the moral theory to which we subscribe for guidance, and act in accordance with that guidance as best we can. This process functions well for those who are quite certain that their preferred moral theory is correct, or at least believe that it is sufficient to guide their actions without doubt. There are, however, those of us who are genuinely uncertain as to which moral theory is correct and most accurately tracks morality. Different moral theories make different judgments about the value of each action, the value of each outcome, whether a certain act is permissible or impermissible, or whether a certain act is merely permissible or supererogatory. Depending on which moral theory we subscribe to, the actions we are morally obliged to take may differ substantially, putting agents who are genuinely uncertain as to which moral theory is correct in a difficult situation whenever they are called to make a decision about which the moral theories to which they lend at least some credence disagree. Call this type of uncertainty normative uncertainty.en_AU
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherDepartment of Philosophyen_AU
dc.rightsThe author retains copyright of this thesisen_AU
dc.subjectMoral Hedgingen_AU
dc.subjectIntertheoretic Value Comparisonsen_AU
dc.subjectVaguenessen_AU
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_AU
dc.titleOn Moral Hedging, the Problem of Intertheoretic Value Comparisons, and Vaguenessen_AU
dc.typeThesis, Honoursen_AU
dc.contributor.departmentDepartment of Philosophyen_AU


Show simple item record

Associated file/s

Associated collections

Show simple item record

There are no previous versions of the item available.