{"id":335,"date":"2026-03-26T14:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/jacobross\/?page_id=335"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:55:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:55:34","slug":"ethics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/jacobross\/ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"><strong>Moral Uncertainty<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ucHExkauzNzsgfp_R7Srze0eUhUpXfCy\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluative Uncertainty<\/a>,&#8221; Oxford Handbook of Normative Ethics, edited by David Copp, Connie Rosati, and Tina Rulli, OUP, 2026<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1IZ9WxrX2I7R6XVebbHoKFQG7iEgh6vSD\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Evaluative Uncertainty and Permissible Preference<\/a>&#8221; with Joe Horton, Philosophical Review, 2025<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/15Qawm40bFEysCN7s1hC0dxWO2LhRQUb5\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Rejecting Ethical Deflationism<\/a>&#8221; Ethics, 2006<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"><strong>The Ethics of Belief<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1UpN4-dMBsFYAE44J4gq6jMNkgaK1V0aZ\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Probabilistic Prejudice<\/a>,&#8221; Essays on Epistemic Dilemmas, Nick Highes (ed.), OUP, 2026<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"><strong>Metaethics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1CuPmHe_ayvbBwgnf3fQUJVj28HJpHXal\/view\" target=\"_blank\">From Teleosemantics to Normative Ethics<\/a>,&#8221; Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 9, Mark Timmons (ed.), OUP, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1VYQMH-ozJjVsRg7Izar1wuYtP3ZQXEm4\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Moral Skepticism<\/a>&#8221; (with Matthew Lutz), in the Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, edited by Tristram McPherson and David Plunkett, 2017<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"><strong>Normative Ethics<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1p6sGq7Vx1vXBr6HUK7sYEUgX9_OdcJbT\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Explanatory Relevance and the Doing\/Allowing Distinction<\/a>,&#8221; Nonbeing, Sara Bernstein (ed.), OUP, 2021<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1G7lCHivWiUg5qezECJr27MDxC87RqcfF\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Rethinking the Person-Affecting Principle<\/a>,&#8221; Journal of Moral Philosophy 12(4), 2015<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1_S7Cx7VJgeKT4TB_w6dtrSTjadn-BZWs\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Actualism, Possibilism and Beyond<\/a>&#8221; Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, vol. 2, Mark Timmons (ed.), OUP, 2012<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1bmj8rcPt-tJdcMMJYXS978mUSTwlHIlQ\/view\" target=\"_blank\">Should Kantians be Consequentialists?<\/a>&#8221; Ratio, 2009<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"><strong>Deontic Logic<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1L0JZ0h2VzB3cuzIHsQgapv9Gv7Wt7ptX\/view\" target=\"_blank\">The Irreducibility of Personal Obligation<\/a>&#8221; Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2010<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1119,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-335","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethics - Jacob Ross<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jacob Ross is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at USC, working in ethics, epistemology, and practical reason. 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