Ground, Essence, and the Metaphysics of Metanormative Non-Naturalism

The past few decades have witnessed an extraordinary revival of interest in metanormative non-naturalism. Despite this interest, it is still unclear how to understand the distinctive metaphysical commitments view. We illustrate relevant difficulties by examining what arguably most prominent class contemporary attempts formulate non-naturalism’s commitments. This proposals, exemplified work Gideon Rosen and Stephanie Leary, characterizes non-naturalism terms grounding essence. argue that these proposals overgeneralize: they either misclassify intuitively naturalistic hypotheses about metaphysics normativity as “non-naturalist”, or other areas metaphysics. problem stems from features itself. suggest a more promising alternative for formulating non-naturalism, which revolves around notion objective similarity between classes properties. conclude drawing some general lessons inquiry normativity, general.