{"id":3146,"date":"2016-02-04T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2016-02-10T13:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T13:40:09","slug":"talk-do-it-but-dont-listen-to-me-moral-testimony-and-practical-inference-by-ulf-hlobil-university-of-pittsburgh-g-160-340-pm-february-10-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/talk-do-it-but-dont-listen-to-me-moral-testimony-and-practical-inference-by-ulf-hlobil-university-of-pittsburgh-g-160-340-pm-february-10-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk: &#8220;Do It! But Don\u2019t Listen to Me!: Moral Testimony and Practical Inference&#8221; by Ulf Hlobil, University of Pittsburgh, G-160, 3:40 PM February 10 (EN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talk: &#8220;Do It! But Don\u2019t Listen to Me!: Moral Testimony and Practical Inference&#8221; by Ulf Hlobil, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~ulh1\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~ulh1\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DATE: Wednesday, February 10<br \/>\nTIME: 15:40-17:30<br \/>\nPLACE: G-160<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p>What, if anything, is wrong with acting on moral beliefs that we accept merely on the say-so of others? Why could it be problematic to act on a moral belief that we take to be true without understanding why it is true? I defend a qualified and novel version of what is called \u201cpessimism\u201d in the controversy over pure moral testimony. I argue that we can rationally come to hold the premises of moral reasoning through testimony, but that moral testimony is problematic in cases where the agent lacks the ability to make the correct practical inference. The problem is that inferential abilities cannot be shared via testimony. The role that moral testimony can play in our moral lives is therefore limited. My account gives the correct verdicts for common examples in the literature on moral testimony. It, moreover, incorporates many of the optimists\u2019 insights and is more general and informative than rival accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Talk: &#8220;Do It! But Don\u2019t Listen to Me!: Moral Testimony and Practical Inference&#8221; by Ulf Hlobil, Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~ulh1\/ DATE: Wednesday, February 10 TIME: 15:40-17:30 PLACE: G-160 Abstract: What, if anything, is wrong with acting on moral beliefs that we accept merely on the say-so of [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/talk-do-it-but-dont-listen-to-me-moral-testimony-and-practical-inference-by-ulf-hlobil-university-of-pittsburgh-g-160-340-pm-february-10-en\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oldposts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3148,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}