John Danaher, a lecturer at Keele University, has a great blog called Philosophical Disquisitions. He recently wrote a very helpful review of a thought-provoking paper titled “Abortion and Moral Risk” by Dan Moller, a philosophy professor at the University of Maryland.  Moller’s fascinating paper and Danaher’s two-part review — here is part one, and here is part two — are worth reading on their own merits.

prior probability is fascinated by the problem of moral risk, or the possibility that one’s moral judgements might be wrong, because this possibility appears to open up a probabilistic approach to morality … that is, if people end up making Type I and Type II errors when reasoning about ethics and morality, then by definition there is some positive probability that people’s moral judgements might be wrong!  And this possibility of moral error gives me a whole new way of looking at the ideas of Plato, Kant, Mill, etc.