COVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments

Michael Klenk; Ibo Van de Poel

doi:10.1007/s40656-020-00360-9

COVID-19, uncertainty, and moral experiments

Michael Klenk^*, Ibo Van de Poel

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Abstract

Pandemics like COVID-19 confront us with decisions about life and death that come with great uncertainty, factual as well as moral. How should policy makers deal with such uncertainty? We suggest that rather than to deliberate until they have found the right course of action, they better do moral experiments that generate relevant experiences to enable more reliable moral evaluations and rational decisions.

Original language	English
Article number	8
Journal	History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
Volume	43
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00360-9
Publication status	Published - 2021

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Moral dilemmas
Rationality
Uncertainty

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