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Comment author: Jack 09 February 2013 01:28:23AM 2 points [-]

But I think there is something real to describe in normative theory - how the moral algorithms in your head work

There is lots of exciting descriptive work to do. But that isn't normative theory, it's descriptive moral psychology.

Comment author: buybuydandavis 09 February 2013 01:30:51AM 0 points [-]

You can still have normative theory in the axiomatic sense - if (these moral algorithms), then these results.

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