caa a22 4500 60623814X CHVBK 20210128101256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9567-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9567-7 Williams Evan Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA aut The Possibility of an Ongoing Moral Catastrophe [Elektronische Daten] [Evan Williams] This article gives two arguments for believing that our society is unknowingly guilty of serious, large-scale wrongdoing. First is an inductive argument: most other societies, in history and in the world today, have been unknowingly guilty of serious wrongdoing, so ours probably is too. Second is a disjunctive argument: there are a large number of distinct ways in which our practices could turn out to be horribly wrong, so even if no particular hypothesized moral mistake strikes us as very likely, the disjunction of all such mistakes should receive significant credence. The article then discusses what our society should do in light of the likelihood that we are doing something seriously wrong: we should regard intellectual progress, of the sort that will allow us to find and correct our moral mistakes as soon as possible, as an urgent moral priority rather than as a mere luxury; and we should also consider it important to save resources and cultivate flexibility, so that when the time comes to change our policies we will be able to do so quickly and smoothly. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Hedging nationallicence Moral mistakes nationallicence Moral uncertainty nationallicence Progress nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 971-982 1386-2820 18:5<971 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9567-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9567-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Williams Evan Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, 800 Algoma Blvd, Oshkosh, WI 54901, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/5(2015-11-01), 971-982 1386-2820 18:5<971 2015 18 10677