Metaethicists often specify non-naturalism in different ways: some take it to be about identity, while others grounding. But few directly address the taxonomical question of what best way understand is. That’s task this paper. This isn’t a merely terminological how use term “non-naturalism”, but substantive philosophical one metaphysical ideology we need capture pre-theoretical concerns non-nat...

Experts often play a fundamental role in decision-making processes. They are the bearers of an epistemic authority, which is primarily grounded on what we may call scientific naturalism. The main tenets this view can clash though with other values characterising our pluralist societies. This lead to conflicts but also devaluation or rejection sort knowledge and advise offered by experts. In pap...

Many philosophers use “physicalism” and “naturalism” interchangeably. In this paper, I will distinguish ontological naturalism from physicalism. While broad versions of physicalism are compatible with naturalism, naturalism doesn't have to be committed to strong versions of physical reductionism, so it cannot be defined as equivalent to it. Instead of relying on the notion of ideal physics, nat...

Most of Hume’s philosophy hinges on the project of founding a new “science of human nature”, mirrored in the successful “experimental method of reasoning” introduced in natural philosophy by Galileo, Newton and their contemporaries. In this essay I make some remarks on this project, with a view to elucidating its nature and exploring its potential fertility in the study of the human mind. I beg...

The status and respectability of alethic modality was always a point of contention and divergence between naturalism and empiricism. It poses no problems in principle for naturalism, since modal vocabulary is an integral part of all the candidate naturalistic base vocabularies. Fundamental physics is above all a language of laws; the special sciences distinguish between true and false counterfa...