From Is to Ought: The Place of Normative Models in the Study of Human Thought

• Main Author: David E. Over (auth)
• Other Authors: Shira Elqayam (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; meliorism; normative models; new paradigm; normativism; moral judgment; Bayesianism; Panglossianism; rationality; Is-ought problem
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In the study of human thinking, two main research questions can be asked: "Descriptive Q: What is human thinking like? Normative Q: What ought human thinking be like?" For decades, these two questions have dominated the field, and the relationship between them generated many a controversy....