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The links between social and moral norms are explored. A model for moral decision making, implementing Situational Action Theory, is developed and calibrated against data.
Everything in nature acts according to laws. Only a rational being has the power to act according to his conception [representation] of a law, i.e. according to principles….
Immanuel Kant
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Elsenbroich, C., Gilbert, N. (2014). Morality. In: Modelling Norms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7052-2_13
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