No normative free lunch: relevance and the autonomy of the normative domain

Abstract The autonomy thesis is the claim that one cannot get a normative statement from purely descriptive statements. But despite its intuitive appeal precise formulation of has remained elusive. In recent paper, Maguire (2015) makes promising suggestion should be understood in terms ground. Maguire’s formulation, I argue, based on controversial taxonomic assumptions make into non-substantive claim. develop an alternative ground-based appeals to notion relevance, which turn using tools truthmaker semantics. This avoids well-known counterexamples other formulations and significant advantages over formulation.