Moral Uncertainty

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Krister Bykvist
Keyword(s):  
Moral Uncertainty

scholarly journals Climate Change, Uncertainty and Policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen Hopster
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Deep Uncertainty ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Climate Economics ◽  
Climate Change Uncertainty ◽  
Management Perspective ◽  
Climate Uncertainty

While the foundations of climate science and ethics are well established, fine-grained climate predictions, as well as policy-decisions, are beset with uncertainties. This chapter maps climate uncertainties and classifies them as to their ground, extent and location. A typology of uncertainty is presented, centered along the axes of scientific and moral uncertainty. This typology is illustrated with paradigmatic examples of uncertainty in climate science, climate ethics and climate economics. Subsequently, the chapter discusses the IPCC’s preferred way of representing uncertainties and evaluates its strengths and weaknesses from a risk management perspective. Three general strategies for decision-makers to cope with climate uncertainty are outlined, the usefulness of which largely depends on whether or not decision-makers find themselves in a context of deep uncertainty. The chapter concludes by offering two recommendations to ease the work of policymakers, faced with the various uncertainties engrained in climate discourse.

scholarly journals Distresse moral de médicos relacionado à incerteza moral frente às diretivas antecipadas de vontade

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. e575101422290
Author(s):  
Uiara Raiana Vargas de Castro Oliveira Ribeiro ◽  
Liliane Mayumi Swiech ◽  
Waldir Souza ◽  
Úrsula Bueno do Prado Guirro ◽  
Carla Corradi-Perini
Keyword(s):  
Moral Uncertainty

Moral-uncertainty-distress (MUD) é o distresse moral relacionado ao conflito sobre qual melhor decisão em situações moralmente complexas. Propomos identificar a relação entre percepção do médico sobre as Diretivas Antecipadas de Vontade (DAV) e MUD, assim como o impacto na tomada de decisão. Neste estudo qualitativo, realizou-se entrevistas semiestruturadas com oito médicos de um hospital em Curitiba-PR tendo por base uma DAV verídica e, posteriormente, submetidas ao método de análise de conteúdo por categorização de Bardin. A primeira categoria identificada, DAV como elementos de conflito moral, revelou atitudes paternalistas por parte dos entrevistados, assim como insegurança por incertezas prognósticas, questionamento das DAV considerando motivações prévias do paciente e pouco conhecimento sobre as DAV. O reconhecimento das DAV como instrumentos de exercício da autonomia do paciente constituiu a segunda categoria encontrada. Apesar da identificação das DAV como ferramentas de autonomia, outros aspectos se mostraram moralmente desafiadores para os médicos entrevistados, sendo potencial fonte de MUD e impactando a tomada de decisão.

Technospiritual Reflexivity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Doostdar
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Imaging Technologies ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Moral Standards

This chapter examines how sinful images of animality that appear in hagiographies of mystics become focal points for anxiety about moral uncertainty and the pious subject's uncanny otherness to itself. Critics of hagiographies frequently complained of the murkiness of moral standards, the blurring of boundaries between right and wrong, the spread of hypocrisy, and the difficulty in distinguishing true friends of God from impostors. It is into this context of moral uncertainty and the unreliability of pious signs that the hagiography of the contemporary friend of God enters as a technology of the self. This chapter considers the friend of God's inner eye, which it argues is the product of multiple converging instrumentalizations, such as the use of imaging technologies in various contexts and the bureaucratization of piety in the service of state interests.

A Welcoming Wilderness

Ethnologies ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 49-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holly Everett
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
Food Stores ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
Iconic Image ◽  
Early Fall ◽  
Wild Berries

Abstract Wild berries have long been integral to Newfoundlanders’ and Labradorians’ food stores. Berry picking remains an important late summer and early fall activity, combining traditional, geographical knowledge with material culture, foodways and custom. Berries may also be Newfoundland and Labrador’s most successful culinary tourism product to date, combining attributes of health, wilderness and resourcefulness. Whereas ethical and moral uncertainty or conviction precludes many tourists from trying seal products, and health concerns prevent the enjoyment of regional favorites such as fish and chips, berries offer visitors a window into local culture beyond reproach. Reifying the text and images of national and provincial tourist literature emphasizing the area’s “outdoor nature product,” the berries serve as an iconic image of a resourceful people intimately connected to a bountiful, welcoming wilderness.

A Wholistic Approach to a Compassionate and Flourishing Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 147-158
Author(s):  
Agnes M.F. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Moral Development ◽  
Social Engagement ◽  
Moral Dilemma ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Conflict ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Personal Relations ◽  
Transformative Approach ◽  
Moral Resilience

In this chapter, the author looks at some additional ingredients that are essential for leading a compassionate, flourishing life. They include psychological well-being, ethics, and moral resilience, as well as social engagement and principled compassionate actions. The author shows that counselling, coaching, and psychotherapy can bring about additional clarity, openness, and deep healing. The author also looks at the importance of moral resilience to deal with moral challenges that include moral uncertainty, moral conflict, and moral dilemma. The author shows that moral development consists of four components: moral sensitivity, judgment/reasoning, motivation, and character/courage, and describes how following the precepts could aid in moral development and building moral resilience. Last, the author shows that a truly transformative approach to living a compassionate life needs to address not only our personal relations to suffering, but also acknowledge that personal suffering has societal causes which require us to be socially engaged through principled compassionate actions.

Moral uncertainty and the moral status of early human life

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 324.1-324
Author(s):  
Michael J Selgelid
Keyword(s):  
Moral Status ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
Early Human

More Seriously Wrong, More Importantly Right

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-58
Author(s):  
THOMAS HURKA
Keyword(s):  
Moral Uncertainty ◽  
One Act ◽  
Deontic Theory ◽  
Commonsense Morality

AbstractCommonsense morality divides acts into those that are right and those that are wrong, but it thinks some wrong acts are more seriously wrong than others, for example, murder than breaking a promise. This has several implications. If an act is more seriously wrong, you should feel more guilt about it and, other things equal, you are more blameworthy for it and can deserve more punishment; we may also need to consider serious wrongness when choosing in conditions of risk or moral uncertainty. This paper examines how one act can be more seriously wrong than another, and, when it is, what makes this so. More specifically, it considers a number of different views about the ground of serious wrongness and explores the possibility that this may be different when acts violate deontological versus consequentialist duties. It also asks whether there is a parallel concept that admits of degrees on the side of rightness, one of being, as we can say, more importantly right. It aims to expand the scope of deontic theory from binary questions about right versus wrong to ones whose answers admit of degrees.

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