Moral Trade-Offs
Channel: Riley Harris
Date: 2020-08-05

Handout: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z13z3l0rpyhqbrw/20200624%20Moral%20Trade-offs%20Handout.pdf?dl=0

When we are uncertain of the moral facts, how might we respond appropriately to the reasons implied by our beliefs? Many argue we ought to maximise the expected moral value of our options. Problems with this approach arise from the necessary assumptions that moral theories give comparable evaluations, that we reject nihilism, and that we have unbounded computation. Examining ‘trade-offs’ can solve (or partially solve) each. Riley is a graduate student in the department of Philosophy at Adelaide and a visiting researcher at ANU, where his research focuses on Moral Uncertainty. Recorded at Effective Altruism Adelaide in August 2020.