in the philosophy of religion, epistemology and metaphysics include Causation and Universals (Routledge, 1990), A Defense of the Given (Rowman and Littlefield, 1996), and Divine Intervention: Metaphysical and Epistemological Puzzles (Routledge, 2009). Though he agrees with Ruse that God plays no role in morality because God does not exist, Fales argues in “Naturalist Moral Realism” that moral principles are objective in nature. These moral principles, he argues, are grounded in certain facts about