NORMACTIVITY

Research Areas & Research Lines

The areas in which the issue of normativity is particularly important today are at least the following (for each of them there are fellows who have joined the project - see Section “Network” of this site - and who have made publications available - see Section “Publications” of this site):
1. Anthropology and Sociology
2. Biology
3. Cognitive Science
4. Economics
5. Ethology
6. Geography, Planning and Design
7. Law
8. Medicine
9. Philosophy
10. Psychology

Some of the lines of research that we believe it would be interesting to deepen are the following (this is only a first indicative list):

• Normativity of values
• Non-linguistic normativity (e.g. graphical normativity, artifacts normativity)
• Normativity and non-orthodox kinds of regulation (nudges and beyond)
• Normativity and social orders
• Normativity in infancy (developmental psychology)
• Animal normativity (ethology of normativity)
• Norms and space (and norms in space)
• Neurophysiological basis of normativity
• Normativity of social facts (social normativity: what are social norms?)
• Normativity and artificial intelligence (smart machines/robots)