Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores the idea that it is instrumentally valuable to learn normative truths. We consider an argument for ‘normative hedging’ based on this principle, and examine the structure of decision-making under moral uncertainty that arises from it. But it also turns out that the value of normative information is inconsistent with the principle that learning empirical truths is instrumentally valuable. Along the way, we develop a unified framework for modeling normative and empirical uncertainty, and we conclude with a brief comment on ‘metanormative regress’.
Author: Jeffrey Sanford Russell
Institution: University of Southern California
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4408011122