Fuzzy heuristics based ethical reasoning seems to involve some screening off of the space of possible decision theories the agent regards as valid to me.
After all, our work on decision theories is to get everything to add up to normality (in the “I don’t know what friendliness is, but I know it when I see it” sense)
Perhaps we have different ideas of what “ethics” involves. To me, ethical reasoning is at its core a way of informally solving disputes by compromising among value systems. This is what Kant seems to be getting at with his talk of different “principles of rational agency”. We also include common human values as a part of “normative ethics”, but strictly speaking that should perhaps be categorized as morality.
Fuzzy heuristics based ethical reasoning seems to involve some screening off of the space of possible decision theories the agent regards as valid to me.
After all, our work on decision theories is to get everything to add up to normality (in the “I don’t know what friendliness is, but I know it when I see it” sense)
Perhaps we have different ideas of what “ethics” involves. To me, ethical reasoning is at its core a way of informally solving disputes by compromising among value systems. This is what Kant seems to be getting at with his talk of different “principles of rational agency”. We also include common human values as a part of “normative ethics”, but strictly speaking that should perhaps be categorized as morality.