Morality in a Branching Universe
Disputatio 1 (20):1 - 21 (2006)
Abstract
In most cases, we think that what settles what act it is right to perform is
sensitive to what we take the facts about the world to be. But those facts
include many controversial metaphysical claims about the world. I argue
that depending on what metaphysical model we take to be correct, we
will have very different views about what the right actions are. In particular,
I argue that if a particular metaphysical model — the branching
universe model — is correct, then many of our ethical intuitions are
false. We need to think carefully about the relation between ethical and
metaphysical intuitions, and ethical and metaphysical theories.
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