I started to study moral uncertainty as a phenomenon emerging naturally from human finitude using two fields: the history of modern philosophy and moral phenomenology. Then, once I had better defined its origins, I wondered how I could define more rigorously its conceptual frontiers to hopefully explore its further impacts, beyond individuals: on society. I knew I ultimately needed tools from economics.
Still, because it was an unclear concept, I needed to clarify it in parallel while investigating which economic areas could be highly impacted. In my mind, such work equalized with “operationalizing” it. This is what I did in my Sorbonne Ph.D. in philosophy, where I provided two main operational pillars: 1) an analytical framework for comparing the values of options, reasoning, and decision-making for individuals or groups; 2) an integrated approach to survey methods to show its empirical relevance for individuals’ preferences across various decision-making settings.
After establishing moral uncertainty as an operationalized concept in my philosophy Ph.D., I explored its societal impacts in my PSE economics Ph.D. through testable behavioral models, experimental tests, and computational methods in economic sciences. Interested readers can have a look at my economic research and my future research exploring related topics in reasoning styles, creativity, scientific methods, knowledge, experimentation.
