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We don’t know what to call this field / topic focus. We probably need a short name and a long one?

Short name requirements

• Ideally, catchy like “social physics” or “behavioral economics”

Long name requirements

• Has ‘formal modeling’ or the equivalent clearly required
• Says “beyond preferences / utilities” one way or another </aside>

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Terms to maybe use

• Thick
• Contextual
• Embedded
• Reflective
• Deliberative
• Robust </aside>

Some names (that aren’t good enough)

Field titles

• Thick Models of Choice
• Context-Aware Choice Theories
• Theories of Embedded Agency
• Models of Reflective and Deliberative Choice
• Models of Embedded Rationality

• Context-Aware Economics
• Contextual Economics
• Thick Alignment and Strategic Modeling

Workshop titles

• Formal Models of Embedded Agency
• Formal Models for Evaluative Reasoning in AI & Alignment
• Formalizing Reasons, Values, Norms for AI and Institutions
• Mechanisms* in a Virtue Ethics and Contractualist World
• Models of Reflective & Deliberative Choice in Humans and AI
• Pluralism & Formal Models — Extending Choice Theory to Reasons, Values, and Norms for AI and New Institutions