ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on how the normative facts are related to the natural facts. The normative facts could be natural facts in disguise. The chapter explains that vocabulary by putting it to work for the purpose of providing a taxonomy of answers to the target question. Ethical Naturalism is the view that normative properties are also natural, so we need a conception of the "natural" that leaves room for this possibility. Ethical Naturalism entails Supervenience on any view. Bridge law non-naturalists of every stripe hold that particular normative facts are metaphysically grounded in the natural facts together with general normative principles. Reductive Naturalism contrasts with two varieties of Non-Reductive Naturalism, all of which contrast with Non-Naturalism in its many forms. This proliferation of possibilities is neither good nor bad. It simply follows if the fine-grained idioms we have adopted are in good order.