Harry R. Lloyd

hrl [at] unc [dot] edu

Research: Moral Uncertainty

Forthcoming:
- Moral uncertainty, pure justifiers, and agent-centred options. Australasian Journal of Philosophy. [coauthor: Patrick Kaczmarek | pre-publication pdf | doi]
  - Synopsis: The expected choiceworthiness maximising approach to moral uncertainty cannot properly handle agent-centred prerogatives; we propose an alternative that can
2025:

Moral uncertainty, expected choiceworthiness, and variance normalization. Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 55.2, 157-73. [pre-publication pdf | doi]
- Synopsis: Philosophers of moral uncertainty sometimes suggest that 'statistical normalization' techniques can be used to compare choiceworthiness values across different moral theories; but I argue that these techniques have lots of problems.
Moral uncertainty and expected truthlikeness. Synthese, 206.265, 1-32. [pre-publication pdf | doi | read-only pdf]
- Synopsis: Rather than choosing actions that maximise expected choiceworthiness, perhaps we should instead choose theories that maximise expected truthlikeness
- Won the Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress' 2024 Young Ethicist Prize (co-winner; open to any untenured presenters, including tenure-track faculty; $350)
- Anonymous reviewer: "The first paper in years in the moral uncertainty literature that opens new directions of research."
Moral uncertainty, proportionality, and bargaining. Ergo, 12.44, 1142-71 [coauthors: Patrick Kaczmarek and Michael Plant | open-access pdf | doi]
- Synopsis: Bargaining-theoretic approaches to moral uncertainty have several advantages over the expected choiceworthiness maximising approach
- Real-world application: Helped to inform this online tool for choosing a portfolio of charitable donations