TY - JOUR
T1 - Some Advice for Moral Psychologists
AU - Wiland, Eric
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PY - 2003/1/9
Y1 - 2003/1/9
N2 - Recently, philosophers have employed the notion of advice to tackle a variety of philosophical problems. In particular, Michael Smith and Nomy Arpaly have in different ways related the notion of advice to the notion of a reason for action. Here I argue that both accounts are flawed, because each operates with a simplistic picture of the way advice works. I conclude that it would be wise to take more time to analyze what advice is and how it in fact works, before putting it to particular philosophical uses.
AB - Recently, philosophers have employed the notion of advice to tackle a variety of philosophical problems. In particular, Michael Smith and Nomy Arpaly have in different ways related the notion of advice to the notion of a reason for action. Here I argue that both accounts are flawed, because each operates with a simplistic picture of the way advice works. I conclude that it would be wise to take more time to analyze what advice is and how it in fact works, before putting it to particular philosophical uses.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-0114.00175/full
U2 - 10.1111/1468-0114.00175
DO - 10.1111/1468-0114.00175
M3 - Article
VL - 84
JO - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
JF - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly
ER -