Monday, June 10, 2013

Salvaging the concept of nudge


Now online- a feature article by Yashar Saghai followed by several commentaries for a future special issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics, abstract below:


In recent years, ‘nudge’ theory has gained increasing attention for the design of population-wide health interventions. The concept of nudge puts a label on efficacious influences that preserve freedom of choice without engaging the influencees’ deliberative capacities. Given disagreements over what it takes genuinely to preserve freedom of choice, the question is whether health influences relying on automatic cognitive processes may preserve freedom of choice in a sufficiently robust sense to be serviceable for the moral evaluation of actions and policies. In this article, I offer an argument to this effect, explicating preservation of freedom of choice in terms of choice-set preservation and noncontrol. I also briefly explore the healthcare contexts in which nudges may have priority over more controlling influences.
Link to the paper: http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2013/02/19/medethics-2012-100727.long

Commentaries on the paper:


Lying and nudging - Gerald Dworkin
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101060
 

J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101061
 
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101109
 

J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101111
 

J Med Ethics Published Online First: 2 March 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101110
 
J Med Ethics Published Online First: 20 February 2013 doi:10.1136/medethics-2012-101112
 

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