I could imagine that many people will gravitate towards moral parliament approaches even when all the moral considerations are known. If moral anti-realism is true, there may not come a point in moral reflection under idealized circumstances where it suddenly feels like “ah, now the answer is obvious.” So, we can also think of moral parliament approaches as a possible answer to undecidedness when all the considerations are laid open.
I feel like only seeing it as an approach to moral uncertainty (so that, if we knew more about moral considerations, we’d just pick one of the first-order normative theories) is underselling the potential scope of applications of this approach.
Thank you for your comment Lukas, we agree that this tool, and more generally this approach, could be useful even in that case, when all considerations are known. The ideas we built on and the language we used came from the literature on moral parliaments as an approach to better understand and tackle moral uncertainty, hence us borrowing from that framing.
This seems cool!
I could imagine that many people will gravitate towards moral parliament approaches even when all the moral considerations are known. If moral anti-realism is true, there may not come a point in moral reflection under idealized circumstances where it suddenly feels like “ah, now the answer is obvious.” So, we can also think of moral parliament approaches as a possible answer to undecidedness when all the considerations are laid open.
I feel like only seeing it as an approach to moral uncertainty (so that, if we knew more about moral considerations, we’d just pick one of the first-order normative theories) is underselling the potential scope of applications of this approach.
Thank you for your comment Lukas, we agree that this tool, and more generally this approach, could be useful even in that case, when all considerations are known. The ideas we built on and the language we used came from the literature on moral parliaments as an approach to better understand and tackle moral uncertainty, hence us borrowing from that framing.