I understand why uncertainty about our knowledge and the future makes a consequentialist approach to ethics difficult, but don't we still face epistemic uncertainty when it comes to deontological or virtue ethics? How can we be confident about the deontological rules we subscribe to? Incorrectly predicting the consequences of an action can produce a bad result in the particular case under consideration, but applying general rules in determining ethics can have much broader ramifications than the single case of a wrong prediction.
Uncertainty matters, unless it doesn't. If 100% of people indicated that they would not change their decision (and this held true in reality) what would we say.
I understand why uncertainty about our knowledge and the future makes a consequentialist approach to ethics difficult, but don't we still face epistemic uncertainty when it comes to deontological or virtue ethics? How can we be confident about the deontological rules we subscribe to? Incorrectly predicting the consequences of an action can produce a bad result in the particular case under consideration, but applying general rules in determining ethics can have much broader ramifications than the single case of a wrong prediction.
Uncertainty matters, unless it doesn't. If 100% of people indicated that they would not change their decision (and this held true in reality) what would we say.