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Cover -- Moral Uncertainty -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Why We Should Take Moral Uncertainty Seriously -- Introduction -- I. Why We Should Be Morally Uncertain -- The Difficulty Of Ethics -- Moral Disagreement -- Overconfidence -- Ii. The Motivation For Taking Moral Uncertainty Seriously -- Iii. Objections To Taking Moral Uncertainty Seriously -- The Fetishism Objection -- The Regress Objection -- The Blameworthiness Objection -- The Conscientiousness Objection -- Disanalogy With Prudential Reasoning -- Conclusion Chapter 2: Maximizing Expected Choiceworthiness -- Introduction -- I. Against My Favorite Theory -- Ii. In Favour Of Trade-offs -- Iii. In Favour Of Treating Moral And Empirical Uncertainty Analogously -- Iv. Two Objections To Mec -- Demandingness -- Supererogation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Ordinal Theories And The Social Choice Analogy -- Introduction -- I. Intertheoretic Comparisons And Ordinal Theories -- Ii. Moral Uncertainty And The Social Choice Analogy -- Iii. Some Voting Systems -- Iv. The Borda Rule -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Interval-scale Theories And Variance Voting -- Introduction I. Intertheoretic Incomparability -- Ii. Two Unsatisfactory Proposals -- Iii. Variance Voting -- Iv. Two Arguments For Variance Voting -- Distance From The Uniform Theory -- The Expected Choice-worthiness Of Voting -- V. Option-individuation And Measure -- Vi. Broad Vs Narrow -- Vii. How To Act In Varying Informational Conditions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Intertheoretic Comparisons Of Choice-worthiness -- Introduction -- I. Against Scepticism -- Ii. Structural Accounts -- Iii. Five Arguments Against Structural Accounts -- Varied-extension Cases -- Discontinuity With Universal Indifference Incoherent Beliefs-weighing Values -- Incoherent Beliefs-too Much Comparability -- Amplified Theories -- Iv. Non-structural Accounts -- V. Against Two Common Ground Accounts -- Vi. Against Two Universal Scale Accounts