Health Economics, Policy and Law / FirstView Article / January 2015, pp 1 9 DOI: 10.1017/S1744133114000590, Published online: 30 January 2015 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1744133114000590 How to cite this article: Alex Voorhoeve, Trygve Ottersen and Ole Fritjof Norheim Response to our critics. Health Economics, Policy and Law, Available on CJO 2015 doi:10.1017/S...

We propose a simple framework for critic-based training of recurrent neural networks and feedback controllers. We term the critics that are used primitive adaptive critics, since we represent them with the simplest possible architecture (bias weight only). We derive this framework from two main premises. The first of these is a natural similarity between a form of approximate dynamic programmin...

Menzel’s commentary is a tightly focused, extended argument and it may be summarized as follows: (a) though Zalta gathers a range of phenomena under a small set of concepts, unfortunately, the framework is a possibilist one; (b) Zalta justifies possibilism by arguing that it provides the simplest and most natural explanation and analysis of such phenomena as ordinary modal discourse; but (c) by...