Nowadays many disciplines are devoting particular attention from a variety of perspectives to
the normative nature of our ways of life. From linguistics to jurisprudence from anthropology
to philosophy from economics to neuroscience the subject of moral normativity constitutes a
Gordian knot of the present age towards which the efforts of scientific and philosophical
understanding are directed.The following volume aims to reach a better understanding of moral
normativity. It collects works by primatologists sociologists philosophers of law ethicists
and phenomenologists to illustrate their contributions to resolving issues regarding the
normative profile of ethical concepts judgments and reasons i.e. the source of the binding
force that guides the behaviour of the human agent.With contributions byJohn J. Drummond
Federico L.G. Faroldi Edoardo Fittipaldi Roberto Redaelli Alessio Rotundo Richard Wrangham
