Sentence examples for normative work from inspiring English sources

This is where what could be called practical assumptions of ELSI research becomes important; the assumption that ELSI strategies actually fails to instigate normative work.

And Sen's refusal to endorse Nussbaum's list has not prevented him from using for various purposes particular selections of capabilities in his empirical as well as his normative work.

With regard to such wrongs, having been pardoned often takes the form of such performative utterances as "don't give it a second thought," "don't worry about it," or "I forgive you," where the speech act itself does the normative work involved in forgiving or pardoning (Pettigrove, 2004).

It is striking that very few proposals on selecting and weighting or aggregating have been worked out by philosophers based on foundational work in ethical theory; instead, most of the proposals on selecting or weighting have been formulated by scholars working in applied ethics, normative political philosophy, or engaged with normative work in the social sciences.

The normative work within the modern constitution is in this analysis conditioned by what Latour called a "work of purification": The realm of fact and value, nature and society should carefully be purified, separated and subsequently treated in different realms, defining among other things the work descriptions of the humanist and social scientist.

We recognized that undertaking normative work such as BOD assessment required substantial financial and time resources, institutional capacity and long term commitments.

We should not confuse Kant's concepts of the good will and moral worth in Groundwork I with his conceptions of virtue and the virtues that emerge in his more mature, normative works.

But both in his normative works and in his foundational work, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant makes explicit that the supreme moral principle itself must be discovered a priori, through a method of pure moral philosophy (G 4 387 92).

This pre-normative research work may support future co-normative work for the establishment of European standards for measuring the mechanical properties of agricultural nets.

Its mandate is normative policy work in New York, but it's also operational – and most of its country teams are pretty small while expectations are high," said one.

However, no normative specification work on group issues took place.