Natural philosophy

	Thinking hardly; or hardly thinking?; Philosophy
	Major trains of thought
	Logic; Morality; Reality;
	The good, the bad; and the brain fart
	Determinism; Double aspect theory; Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False; Presentism; Prioritarianism; Prisoner's dilemma; Punishment; Yin and yang;
	Come to think of it
	Religion; Science; Philosophy of science; Ethics; Psychology; v - t - e

Natural philosophy is a term nobody uses any more. Its use roughly coincides with The Enlightenment, the period between the mid-17^th and early-18^th centuries, when the foundations of what is now known as science were laid by people such as Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Robert Hooke and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

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In natural philosophy, there is an emphasis on deduction as a means of obtaining knowledge, in contrast to the modern emphasis on induction.

Probably the most famous use of the term is in the title of Newton's seminal work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy).

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