Abstract According to a common interpretation, most explicitly defended by Onora O’Neill and Patricia Kitcher, Kant held that epistemic obligations normatively depend on moral obligations. That is, were rational agent not bound any obligation, then she would be obligation either. By contrast, in this paper, I argue that, according Kant, some are independent from obligations, indeed absolute. Th...

An agent organization modelling is proposed based on four main concepts: organizational unit, service, environment and norm. Those concepts are integrated in ANEMONA meta-models, which are extended in order to include all entities needed for describing the structure, functionality, dynamicity, normativity and environment of an organization.

Rationality is often said to be a normative concept: to be rational is not a descriptive feature of an individual or a system, but a normative one, since rationality pertains to what one ought to, or should, do, think or feel. But what is it in turn for an individual or system to ought to do, think, or feel something? I propose to start from this problem and try to see in what sense the notion ...

Abstract Recent years' literature on distinctively political normativity raises methodological and meta‐theoretical concerns of importance for theory. The aim this article is to identify critically examine the main positions in debate as well analyze problems promising ways forward. In brief, we argue that predominant “non‐moral view” (i.e., view independent moral normativity), problematic all ...

Aesthetic hedonism is the view that to be aesthetically good please. For most aesthetic hedonists, normativity hedonic normativity. This paper argues Kant’s third Critique contains resources for a nonhedonic account of as sourced in autonomy self-legislation. A case made also because it ties his aesthetics into key theme larger philosophy.

Abstract Political realists’ rejection of the so-called ‘ethics first’ approach political moralists (mainstream liberals), has raised concerns about their own source normativity. Some realists have responded to such by theorizing a distinctively According this view, politics is seen as an autonomous, independent domain with its evaluative standards. Therefore, it in source, rather than some mor...

The debate about lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) characterises them as future problems in need of pre-emptive regulation, for example, through codifying meaningful human control. But technologies are already part and have shaped how states think To understand this normative space, I proceed two steps: first, theorise practices designing, training personnel for, operating weapon integra...