Truthful nudging

At odds with the truth

“…Autonomy is generally understood to refer to a person’s capacity for self-rule, to be reason-responsive and for her choices to be causally related to her actions 12. The agents in Cohen’s Gettier-inspired cases act autonomously, but irrationally—they do the ‘right thing’ for the ‘wrong reason.’ Cohen says these choices may ‘not be autonomous,’ thereby demonstrating that our current conception of informed consent doesn’t respect autonomy 10. Cohen’s account of autonomy suggests irrational actions are not autonomous, which is prima facie inconsistent with both compatibilist and incompatibilist theories of autonomy.…”

“…It is my position that nudging is incompatible with truth-telling, but Cohen asks us to consider ‘nudging via telling the truth' 10. This idea is deeply confused (at least under my understanding of truth-telling and bullshit) because truth-telling requires the speaker to be committed to (3 T), while bullshitting requites a lack of commitment to (3 T).…”