Update and extension of the normative practice approach

What is it about?

The normative practice approach is novel approach to address normative issues in professional, cultural and scientific contexts. It offers a model that helps understand the different normative dimensions of practices in these contexts/spheres. It was initially developed for health care. This issue of Philosophia Reformata gives an update and extension to among others the fields of agriculture, transport, public communication and psychiatry.

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Why is it important?

This type of analysis is important and unique because it offers a genuine alternative to both one-sided consequentialist and merely rule-based approaches of ethical reasoning. One of its advantages is that it puts the analysis of the structure of (professional and other) practices central.

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