Date of Award

Fall 1-1-2025

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

Kagan, Shelly

Abstract

I develop and defend an original answer to the problem of moral uncertainty - the question of how to behave when one has at least some credence in more than one moral theory. My marketplace response to this problem models the moral theories in which one has credence using "theory representatives," who bargain with each other to determine how the morally uncertain decision maker is to behave. This marketplace approach gives plausible recommendations in a wide range of cases, and also escapes the various objections that have been levelled against other proposed solutions to the problem of moral uncertainty.

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