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Value uncertainty and value instability in decision-making

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Author

Editor

  • Julien Dutant
  • Davide Fassio
  • Anne Meylan

Summary, in English

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the role of value uncertainty and value instability in decision-making that concerns morally controversial issues. Value uncertainty and value instability are distinguished from moral uncertainty, and several types of value uncertainty and value instability are

defined and discussed. The relations between value uncertainty and value instability are explored, and value uncertainty is illustrated with examples drawn from the social sciences, medicine and everyday life. Several types of factor producing value uncertainty and/or value instability are then identified.

They are grouped into three categories and discussed under the headings ‘value framing’, ‘ambivalence’ and ‘lack of self-knowledge’. The paper then discusses the role of value uncertainty in decision-making. The concluding remarks summarize what has been achieved and what remains to be done

in this area.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

100-110

Publication/Series

Liber Amicorum Pascal Engel

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

University of Geneva

Topic

  • Medical Ethics
  • Philosophy

Keywords

  • value uncertainty
  • value instability
  • decision-making
  • epistemic indeterminacy
  • ethics

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-2-8399-1562-5