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SOME ADVICE FOR MORAL PSYCHOLOGISTS
Author(s) -
Wiland Eric
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0114.00175
Subject(s) - advice (programming) , variety (cybernetics) , epistemology , action (physics) , sociology , psychology , philosophy , computer science , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , programming language
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.