The picture that depicts naturalistic explanations of our language and thought practices is foreign to our self-understanding. Oliver Schütze's philosophical endeavor is to take this tension seriously without departing from the naturalistic framework. His central thesis is that, with the help of the concept of life forms, an adequate understanding of phenomena such as meaning, mental content, and normativity can be developed. However, for this endeavor not to be arbitrary, it must be methodologically controlled within the framework of a naturalistic theory, as Schütze demonstrates in his lucid book.