Naturalism and Naturalized Jurisprudence

Abstract Naturalism is a familiar development in recent philosophy. Indeed, it would not be wrong to say that it is the distinctive development in philosophy over the last thirty years. The linguistic turn of the first half of this century (in which traditional philosophical problems were framed as problems about our use of language) has either been supplanted or supplemented by the naturalistic turn, in which traditional philosophical problems are thought to be insoluble by the a priori, armchair methods of the philosopher, and to require, instead, embedding in (or replacement by) suitable empirical theories.