Ethics of Influence as Behavioural Applied Ethics
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-78661-514-5 (ISBN)
Description
Recognizing the growing role of behavioural sciences in public policy, this book aims to critically analyse the status and role of behavioural sciences while challenging their ability to provide sufficient evidence to build policy and thus provide valid justifications for these policies. By analysing in detail the paradigmatic example of nudges and highlighting the questions they raise from an ethical, political and legal point of view, the author offers the reader the tools to evaluate nudges and the influence they have on individuals' behaviour. In the process, the book makes a convincing case for a new definition of the ethics of influence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Senior to College Graduate Student
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-78661-514-5 (9781786615145)
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Person
Malik Bozzo-Rey is a Research Professor in Ethics and holds a Research Chair in the 'Ethics of Influence'. He is currently developing his research around the question of the link between norms and behaviours from an interdisciplinary perspective. He aims to build an ethics of influence focusing on the legitimacy of techniques aimed at influencing individuals' behaviour directly or indirectly.
Content
Part I: Behavioural Science as a Foundation for Public Policy Decision-Making / 1. Behavioural Science as a Methodology / 2. From Behavioural Insights to Paternalistic Policy / 3. Can Behavioural Science provide Evidence they are supposed to and Justify Public Policy? / Part II: Nudge as a Paradigmatic Case of Behaviourally Informed Public Policy / 4. What is Really a Nudge? / 5. 'Better off as Judged by Themselves' / 6. For an Ethical Approach of Behavioural Tools / Part III: A Behaviourally-Driven Society? / 7. Democratic Experts for a Better Society? / 8. From Competition to Complementarity / 9. Redefining Influence on Behaviour / Conclusion: Reassessing Behavioural Public Policy: The Rise of the Ethics of Influence