etholy
Etholy is an interdisciplinary concept that refers to the study of ethical behavior and normative justification across biological and artificial agents, with attention to how moral norms develop, persist, and shape action in groups. The term is not widely standardized and appears in small clusters of philosophical and cognitive science discussions since the mid-2010s. Etholy draws on ethics, moral psychology, anthropology, ethology, and computer science, seeking to integrate normative theory with empirical evidence about how agents decide what is right or wrong.
Researchers in etholy examine questions such as how cooperative norms form, how sanctioning systems influence behavior,
Critiques note that etholy risks conflating disparate traditions (ethics, ethology) and that the lack of consensus
See also: ethics, ethical theory, moral psychology, ethology, AI alignment.