The Department examines the emergence of normativity, persistence and change of norms in ethics and applied ethics. The central focus is the explanation of the philosophical aspect of human rights with regards to social and special conductive facts, normative aspects of philosophy of social knowledge and logic applied in law. Also, the department examines social cognition and different experiment with respect to their epistemic and methodological relevance. Normativity and its concept are the link between the members of the department.