The Nature of Advice
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This chapter distinguishes advice and moral testimony, distinguishes advice from command, and explains what it is to trust advice. One who accepts moral testimony believes something he might not otherwise believe, while one who trusts advice does something he might not otherwise do. Trusting advice is more directly practical than is accepting moral testimony. Advice is apt only if it directs the advisee to do what he, in some sense, already had reason to do; there is no parallel constraint on command. However, advising someone to do something can generate new reasons for them to do what they already had reason to do. Moreover, advice is apt only if the advisee would, upon hearing it, have some motivation to do what’s advised.
2016 ◽
pp. 45-73
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2007 ◽
Vol 74
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pp. 611-634
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2018 ◽
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