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WORKSHOP: Nudging and Moral Responsibility
When: April 6-7, 2018
Where: Main Building (room HG 4A-33) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invited speakers:
Derk Pereboom, Cornell University
Carolina Sartorio, University of Arizona
Maureen Sie, University of Tilburg
Nudges are an increasingly popular tool that policy makers and businesses are using to steer our choices and behaviour. For example, someone might be nudged by open workspaces to increase their productivity at work, and stores might nudge people toward consuming items whose high profit margin is linked to unethical production. So-called choice architects target cognitive and behavioural biases, such as status quo bias, that are difficult to control and the workings of which we are typically unaware. For this and other reasons, many have argued that nudges are problematic and shouldn’t be implemented.
The motivation behind this workshop is to set aside the question of whether nudges are morally permissible and focus instead on the question of whether nudged agents are morally responsible for their nudged actions and their consequences. For example, if someone is nudged to do all manner of virtuous things, such as donate organs or offset carbon emissions, is she praiseworthy? If a more sinister choice architect nudges someone to do something wrong or bad, is she blameworthy? Should decisions about which student or job candidate is more deserving of a position take into account the degree to which her accomplishments are the effects of nudges?
Program
Friday April 6th
9.30-10.15
Philip Robichaud, (VU)
10.15-11.15
Carolina Sartorio (Arizona)
Nudges, Reasons, and Causes
11.15-11.30 break
11.30-12.15
Rebecca Ruehle (Wittenberg-Center for Global Ethics)
Nudging and the Accountability Gap
12.15-13.00
Brian Collins & Greg Stoutenburg
(California Lutheran University & York College of Pennsylvania)
The Extent of Moral Responsibility: Nudging and Moral Luck
13.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Alfred Archer, Amanda Cawston, & Bart Engelen (Tilburg)
Nudging Children: Becoming Moral Agents
14.45-15.30
Sophie H. Gibert (NIH)
Why Existing Accounts of Manipulation Can't Resolve Debates About Nudging
15.30-15.45 break
15.45-16.30
Maureen Sie (Tilburg)
Much Ado About Nudging?
Saturday April 7th
10.15-11.00
Mark Alfano, J. Adam Carter & Marc Cheong
(TU Delft, Glasgow, & Monash)
Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization
11.00-11.15 break
11.15-12.15
Derk Pereboom (Cornell)
Nudging and Exclusively Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility
12.15-13.00
Ninni Suni (Helsinki)
Attributionism and Voluntarism About Culpability for Nudged Action
13.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Per-Erik Milam (Twente)
Nudging and Design for Moral Responsibility
14.45-15.30
Ainar Miyata-Sturm (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
Nudging, Manipulation and Ecological Rationality
15.30-15.45 break
15.45-16.30
Fay Niker (Stanford)
Nudging and the "Public Ecology" of Morally Responsible Agency
This workshop is organised as part of the NWO-funded Veni project “Nudging responsibly: The Impact of Choice Architecture on Responsibility Attributions”. See: http://philiprobichaud.weebly.com
WORKSHOP: Nudging and Moral Responsibility
When: April 6-7, 2018
Where: Main Building (room HG 4A-33) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Invited speakers:
Derk Pereboom, Cornell University
Carolina Sartorio, University of Arizona
Maureen Sie, University of Tilburg
Nudges are an increasingly popular tool that policy makers and businesses are using to steer our choices and behaviour. For example, someone might be nudged by open workspaces to increase their productivity at work, and stores might nudge people toward consuming items whose high profit margin is linked to unethical production. So-called choice architects target cognitive and behavioural biases, such as status quo bias, that are difficult to control and the workings of which we are typically unaware. For this and other reasons, many have argued that nudges are problematic and shouldn’t be implemented.
The motivation behind this workshop is to set aside the question of whether nudges are morally permissible and focus instead on the question of whether nudged agents are morally responsible for their nudged actions and their consequences. For example, if someone is nudged to do all manner of virtuous things, such as donate organs or offset carbon emissions, is she praiseworthy? If a more sinister choice architect nudges someone to do something wrong or bad, is she blameworthy? Should decisions about which student or job candidate is more deserving of a position take into account the degree to which her accomplishments are the effects of nudges?
Program
Friday April 6th
9.30-10.15
Philip Robichaud, (VU)
10.15-11.15
Carolina Sartorio (Arizona)
Nudges, Reasons, and Causes
11.15-11.30 break
11.30-12.15
Rebecca Ruehle (Wittenberg-Center for Global Ethics)
Nudging and the Accountability Gap
12.15-13.00
Brian Collins & Greg Stoutenburg
(California Lutheran University & York College of Pennsylvania)
The Extent of Moral Responsibility: Nudging and Moral Luck
13.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Alfred Archer, Amanda Cawston, & Bart Engelen (Tilburg)
Nudging Children: Becoming Moral Agents
14.45-15.30
Sophie H. Gibert (NIH)
Why Existing Accounts of Manipulation Can't Resolve Debates About Nudging
15.30-15.45 break
15.45-16.30
Maureen Sie (Tilburg)
Much Ado About Nudging?
Saturday April 7th
10.15-11.00
Mark Alfano, J. Adam Carter & Marc Cheong
(TU Delft, Glasgow, & Monash)
Technological Seduction and Self-Radicalization
11.00-11.15 break
11.15-12.15
Derk Pereboom (Cornell)
Nudging and Exclusively Forward-Looking Moral Responsibility
12.15-13.00
Ninni Suni (Helsinki)
Attributionism and Voluntarism About Culpability for Nudged Action
13.00
Lunch
14.00-14.45
Per-Erik Milam (Twente)
Nudging and Design for Moral Responsibility
14.45-15.30
Ainar Miyata-Sturm (Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences)
Nudging, Manipulation and Ecological Rationality
15.30-15.45 break
15.45-16.30
Fay Niker (Stanford)
Nudging and the "Public Ecology" of Morally Responsible Agency
This workshop is organised as part of the NWO-funded Veni project “Nudging responsibly: The Impact of Choice Architecture on Responsibility Attributions”. See: http://philiprobichaud.weebly.com