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  1. Jan 1, 2014 · It distinguishes three central aims of normative ethical theory: understanding the nature of moral agency, identifying morally right actions, and determining the justification of moral beliefs. For each of these aims, the chapter considers and rejects arguments against employing cognitive scientific research in normative inquiry.

    • regina.rini@philosophy.ox.ac.uk
  2. Aug 25, 2020 · The Psychology of Normative Cognition. First published Tue Aug 25, 2020. From an early age, humans exhibit a tendency to identify, adopt, and enforce the norms of their local communities. Norms are the social rules that mark out what is appropriate, allowed, required, or forbidden in different situations for various community members.

    • Daniel Kelly, Stephen Setman
    • 2020
  3. The application of normative theories and standards to practical moral problems is the concern of applied ethics. This subdiscipline of ethics deals with many major issues of the contemporary scene, including human rights , social equality, and the moral implications of scientific research, for example in the area of genetic engineering .

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
  4. Apr 19, 2006 · Moral Psychology: Empirical Approaches. Moral psychology investigates human functioning in moral contexts, and asks how these results may impact debate in ethical theory. This work is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing on both the empirical resources of the human sciences and the conceptual resources of philosophical ethics.

    • John Doris, Stephen Stich, Jonathan Phillips, Lachlan Walmsley
    • 2006
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  6. Normative ethics attempts to establish criteria or principles for identifying norms and standards to guide correct behavior. Philosophers offer systematized accounts of morality that provide standards and norms of right conduct. There are three main approaches to normative moral theory: consequentialist, deontological, and virtue ethics.

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