NUDGE: IMPROVING DECISIONS ABOUT HEALTH, WEALTH, AND HAPPINESS by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein Penguin Books, 2009, 312 pp, ISBN 978-0-14-311526-7This book is best described formally as a general explanation of and advocacy for libertarian paternalism, a term coined by the authors in earlier publications. Informally, it is about how leaders, systems, organizations, and governments can nudge people to do the things the nudgers want and need done for the betterment of the nudgees, or of society. It is paternalism in the sense that "it is legitimate for choice architects to try to influence people's behavior in order to make their lives longer, healthier, and better", (p. 5) It is libertarian in that "people should be free to do what they like - and to opt out of undesirable arrangements if they want to do so", (p. 5) The built-in possibility of opting out or making a different choice preserves freedom of choice even though people's behavior has been influenced by the nature of the presentation of the information or by the structure of the decisionmaking system. I had never heard of libertarian paternalism before reading this book, and I now find it fascinating.Written for a general audience, this book contains mostly social and behavioral science theory and models, but there is considerable discussion of structure and process that has roots in mathematical and quantitative modeling. One of the main applications of this social system is economic choice in investing, selecting and purchasing products and services, systems of taxes, banking (mortgages, borrowing, savings), and retirement systems. Other quantitative social choice systems discussed include environmental effects, health care plans, gambling, and organ donations. Softer issues that are also subject to a nudge-based approach are marriage, education, eating, drinking, smoking, influence, spread of information, and politics. There is something in this book for everyone.The basis for this libertarian paternalism concept is in the social theory called "science of choice", the study of the design and implementation of influence systems on various kinds of people. The terms Econs and Humans, are used to refer to people with either considerable or little rational decision-making talent, respectively. The various libertarian paternalism concepts and systems presented are tested and compared in light of these two types of people. Two foundational issues that this book has in common with another book, Network of Echoes: Imitation, Innovation and Invisible Leaders, that was also reviewed for this issue of the Journal are that 1 ) there are two modes of thinking (or components of the brain) - an automatic (intuitive) process and a reflective (rational) process and 2) the need for conformity and the desire for imitation are powerful forces in human behavior. …

Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness

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The concept of mind

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Cognition In The Wild

1. Introducing the Puzzle 2. Contextualism and the Puzzle 3. Invariantist Treatments 4. Sensitive Moderate Invariantism Bibliography

Knowledge and lotteries

Supersizing the Mind: Embodiment, Action and Cognitive Extension.

We noted back in chapter 1, when we were considering the question of how to analyse knowledge, that there are two overarching intuitions about knowledge. The first — the ability intuition — was that knowledge is due to cognitive ability. The second — the anti-luck intuition — was that knowledge excludes luck. When we first introduced these two intuitions about knowledge we also noted that one could regard them as closely related. W hat does it take to ensure that one’s true belief is not due to luck? Well, that it is the product of one’s cognitive ability. Conversely, insofar as one’s true belief is the product of one’s cognitive ability, then one would expect it to thereby be immune to knowledge-undermining luck.

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Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology

In this paper, I do three things. First, I offer an overview of an anti-luck epistemology, as set out in my book, Epistemic Luck (Oxford University Press, Oxford 2005). Second, I attempt to meet some of the main criticisms that one might level against the key theses that I propose in this work. And finally, third, I sketch some of the ways in which the strategy of anti-luck epistemology can be developed in new directions.

Anti-luck epistemology

PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING 1. The Value Problem for Knowledge 2. Knowledge and Final Value 3. Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology 4. Understanding PART II: KNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNITION 5. Knowledge in Recent Epistemology: Some Problems 6. Perceptual Knowledge and Recognitional Abilities 7. Knowledge from Indicators 8. The Social Transmission of Knowledge PART III: KNOWLEDGE AND ACTION 9. Knowledge and Justification 10. Second-Order Knowledge 11. Knowledge of Action Bibliography

The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations

It is a widespread pre-theoretical intuition that knowledge is distinctively valuable. If this were not so, then it would be simply mysterious why knowledge has been the focus of so much of epistemological theorising, rather than some other epistemic standing like justified true belief. Given this fact, however, it is obviously important to a theory of knowledge that it is able to offer a good explanation of why we have this intuition. Indeed, some, such as Jonathan Kvanvig (2003) and Timothy Williamson (2000), have argued that if a theory of knowledge does not make it transparent why knowledge is distinctively valuable then this is a decisive strike against it. We do not need to go this far, however. What is important is just that a theory of knowledge is able to adequately account for this intuition. One very direct way of accounting for the intuition would be to offer a theory of knowledge which demonstrated why knowledge is distinctively valuable in the manner that we intuitively suppose. We will call proposals of this sort validatory, since they aim to validate our pre-theoretical intuitions about the value of knowledge. Positions of this sort have been offered by, for example, Linda Zagzebski (1996; 1999; 2003) and John Greco (2002; 2007; forthcominga), and we will consider one such proposal in this respect below. Notice, however, that one does not need to validate an intuition in order to account for it. One could instead put forward a theory of knowledge on which knowledge is not distinctively valuable, but which could explain why we might pre-theoretically think that knowledge is distinctively valuable. We will call proposals of this sort revisionist, since they revise our pre-theoretical intuitions about the value of knowledge. Mark Kaplan (1985), for example, famously argued that the moral of the post-Gettier literature was that it is not knowledge which is distinctively valuable but rather justified true belief – knowledge being justified true belief plus an anti-Gettier condition – but that since justified true belief usually sufficed for knowledge, the mistake was entirely natural. A second proposal

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Duncan Pritchard

Papers

Anti-Luck Virtue Epistemology

Anti-luck epistemology

The Nature and Value of Knowledge: Three Investigations

Knowledge, Understanding and Epistemic Value

Disjunctivism — Perception, Action, Knowledge