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Intertheoretic value comparison: a modest proposal
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In the growing literature on decision-making under moral uncertainty, a number of skeptics have argued that there is an insuperable barrier to rational “hedging” for the risk of moral error, namely the apparent incomparability of moral reasons given by rival theories like Kantianism and utilitarianism. Various general theories of intertheoretic value comparison have been proposed to counter this objection, but each suffers from apparently fatal flaws. In this paper, I propose a more modest ap...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Brill Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of Moral Philosophy Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 324-344
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-06-15
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1745-5243
- ISSN:
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1740-4681
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1120760
- Local pid:
- pubs:1120760
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-23
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- Brill
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- Copyright 2018 Brill
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This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available from Brill at https://doi.org/10.1163/17455243-20170013
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