Professor Palmer delivered the first of the series of William Belden Noble lectures in Phillips Brooks House last night, his subject being "Ethics and the Descriptive Sciences." He prefaced his ...

Vol. 148, No. 2, Thematic Symposium: Paradoxes in Corporate Sustainability - Managing Tensions Between Social, Economic, and Environmental Issues (March 2018), pp. 235-248 (14 pages) The last decade ...

Aim This study aims (i) to understand how descriptive normative beliefs (DNB) about typical students’ alcohol use and self-regulation (SRG) are related to alcohol use (AU) by exploring the indirect ...

Interdisciplinary projects seem prone to certain tensions. A persistent one at the intersection of anthropology and law is the pull between the descriptive and the normative register. It came up for ...

Menu Distinguishing Between the Conceptual Versus the Empirical Distinguishing Between Descriptive Versus Normative Statements Thought Experiments Annotated Sample of Writing from Philosophy A ...

Explanation: Just because the claim makes a specific reference to some culture, it does not follow that the claim is itself a merely descriptive claim. It is making a claim about how you should act, ...