Journal of Philosophical Research

Volume 33, 2008

Naturalism and the New Moral Intuitionism

The aim of this paper is to defend moral intuitionism, in its new formulations, against the criticism that there is something objectionably non-natural about its conception of moral properties. The force of this complaint depends crucially on what it means to be a non-natural property. I consider a number of ways of drawing the natural/non-natural distinction and argue that, once the notion of ‘non-natural property’ is sufficiently clarified, it fails to figure in a compelling argument against moral intuitionism.