The various empiricist, verificationist, and reductionist forms of foundationalism have not yet succeeded, and even within modern philosophy there has been a continuous resistance to them.
Still, if the argument were to defeat all reductionist forms of naturalism that would be of substantial interest and might well be part of larger argument for non-naturalism when combined with an independent argument against anti-reductionist forms of naturalism (for further discussion, see Ball 1988, Ball 1991 and Baldwin 1990 87 899).
In light of this, it is perhaps unsurprising that several philosophers have argued that ethical supervenience theses support reductionist forms of ethical realism against non-reductive forms (Jackson 1998, Ridge 2007, Brown 2011).
Admittedly, if Moore is right then at least reductionist forms of naturalism fall prey to the naturalistic fallacy and it is therefore still relevant to the debate over naturalism and non-naturalism.
Indeed, Harman's argument would, if sound, also apply to anti-reductionist forms of naturalism.
For anti-reductionist forms of naturalism (like Sturgeon's) seem as invulnerable to the argument as Moore's non-naturalist account.
"People realize today that, in a world of readily available goods, reductionist design and pure form are more attractive," Mr. Hemmerle said.
Finally, more sophisticated forms of reductionist naturalism hold that while moral predicates do refer to natural properties, they do not so refer in virtue of any sort of analytic equivalence between moral predicates and non-moral predicates.
Donald Judd took over the mothballed Fort D A Russell military camp on the outskirts of Marfa and converted it, between 1979 and 1986, into a series of slick, light-filled spaces to display his reductionist cubes and stark, reflective forms, along with work by sculptor John Chamberlain and conceptual light artist Dan Flavin.
The psychologist Abraham Maslow apparently even considered a reductionist attitude to be a mild form of psychoneurosis [quoted in [ 67], p.7]. Reductionists in return accused holists of morethanism, an allegedly emotional insistence that complex phenomena are necessarily "more than" the sum of their parts.
