Replies to Shein, Voigt and Chapman

Nudge, Embarrassment, and Restriction—Replies to Voigt, Tieffenbach, and Saghai

Nudge, embarrassment, and restriction-replies to Voigt, Tieffenbach, and Saghai.

It is a privilege that some of the most promising contributors to public health ethics took the time to think and comment on my op-ed. Kristin Voigt’s (1), Emma Tieffenbach’s (2), and Yashar Saghai’s (3) ingenious comments have taught me a lot about nudging, embarrassment, and restriction. Let me address their main points one by one. Kristin Voigt makes two points. One is that nudging by shamin...

nudge, embarrassment, and restriction—replies to voigt, tieffenbach, and saghai

Ginsberg Replies of Chapman and Schoppers - Universal Planning Research: A Good or Bad Idea?

Rather than begin by discussing the points where I seem to be in disagreement with Chapman and Schoppers, let me start with something about which we seem to concur: The work on reactive plans can be broken into two parts. First is the work on pure reactive plans, which specify actions for an agent to take in all situations. Second is the work on caching reactive plans, which specify actions in ...

Replies to Sullivan and Lange

The explanatory criterion of relevance. The ordering of (possible and impossible) worlds by their closeness to actuality is determined by weighing the different similarities they have to actuality. The similarities to actuality that can make a world closer include resemblances in matters of particular fact. (A matter of particular fact is a fact about the history of the universe that is not ent...