One can pass the buck about goodness that is, deny that the goodness of something adds any additional reason to want or get it without holding normative reduction.
To the extent to which it still holds normative force, the vision of a post-national Europe based on citizenship is not entirely devoid of substance.
That he does so is not only his right but also morally excellent, as acting in accord with responsibly held normative commitments is an important moral and civic good.
The authors' experimental findings are consistent with participants holding normative commitments about exchanging currencies and noncommodities similar to those considered in the discussion of constitutive incommensurability in subsection 3.2.
Being embedded in the network core of policy elites may have increased this actor's exposure to firmly held normative beliefs in opposition to pneumonia, and encouraged their congruence with those beliefs (Sabatier and Weible 2007).
Despite the funders' ability to opportunistically structure the process and the network in ways that supported their policy goals, their efforts at entrepreneurship could not overcome the deeply held normative beliefs of MoH elites related to pneumonia treatment (Sabatier and Weible 2007).
Therefore, this contextual uncertainty (Table 2, section 1), has an epistemic component, because we can not yet gauge the complete extent of the environment; and a normative component, because different researchers hold different normative views on what the environment consists of.
Brandom aims at reducing the intentional to the normative, while holding the normative itself to be irreducible.
Certain "buck-passing" accounts hold the normative reduction claim without response-dependency, whereas dispositional theories, including certain forms of sentimentalism, hold response-dependency without reducing value to another normative notion.
