The present collection represents an attempt to bring together several contributions to the
ongoing debate pertaining to supervenience of the normative in law and morals and strives to be
the first work that addresses the topic comprehensively. It addresses the controversies
surrounding the idea of normative supervenience and the philosophical conceptions they
generated deserve a recapitulation as well as a new impulse for further development.Recently
there has been renewed interest in the concepts of normativity and supervenience. The research
on normativity - a term introduced to the philosophical jargon by Edmund Husserl almost one
hundred years ago - gained impetus in the 1990s through the works of such philosophers as
Robert Audi Christine Korsgaard Robert Brandom Paul Boghossian or Joseph Raz. The problem of
the nature and sources of normativity has been investigated not only in morals and in relation
to language but also in other domains e.g. in law or in the context of the theories of
rationality. Supervenience understood as a special kind of relation between properties and
weaker than entailment has become analytic philosophers' favorite formal tool since 1980s. It
features in the theories pertaining to mental properties but also in aesthetics or the law.In
recent years the 'marriage' of normativity and supervenience has become an object of many
philosophical theories as well as heated debates. It seems that the conceptual apparatus of the
supervenience theory makes it possible to state precisely some claims pertaining to normativity
as well as illuminate the problems surrounding it.
