Naturalism

Naturalism may refer to:

The arts

Philosophy and science

  • Naturalism (philosophy) is any of several philosophical stances wherein all phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled as supernatural are either false or not inherently different from natural phenomena or hypotheses.
  • Critical naturalism
  • Methodological naturalism, naturalism that holds that science is to be done without reference to supernatural causes; also refers to a methodological assumption in the philosophy of religion that observable events are fully explainable by natural causes without reference to the supernatural
  • Metaphysical naturalism, a form of naturalism that holds that the cosmos consists only of objects studied by the natural sciences, and does not include any immaterial or intentional realities
  • Liberal naturalism, a heterodox form of naturalism in the conceptual space between scientific naturalism and supernaturalism
  • Ethical naturalism, the theory that ethical terms can be defined in non-ethical terms, namely, descriptive terms mainly from the natural sciences
  • Spiritual naturalism, an approach to spirituality that is devoid of supernaturalism
  • Religious naturalism, religious institutions, rituals, doctrines and communities which do not include supernatural beliefs
  • Humanistic naturalism emphasises scientific reasoning as a basis for humane behavior
  • Sociological naturalism is the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical and governed by similar principles
  • Political naturalism is a politic and legal system based on the belief in the existence of a fair natural law
  • Naturalistic observation is an empirical method of study by which the researcher introduces no outside stimulus, instead witnessing behavior as it naturally occurs in the environment
  • Poetic naturalism, an approach to naturalism which allows for there to be many useful ways of talking about the natural world, dependent upon the subject's frame of reference.

Other

gollark: Well, modern NVMe disks can do, let's say 4GB/s for ease of numbers.
gollark: *Big* datas.
gollark: Transfer datas.
gollark: Data transfer can just be over fiber optic, which can push 200Gbps now.
gollark: Actually, bestest idea: make the entire *front* of the phone the *positive* terminal for charging, and the *back* the *negative* terminal, and drop the "charging port" nonsense.

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Naturalism
  • Naturalness (disambiguation)
  • Natural history, a domain of inquiry involving organisms
  • Naturalistic fallacy, appealing to a definition of the term "good" in terms of one or more natural properties
  • Naturism, the practice of social nudity, often confused with the term "naturalism"
  • Naturalist, a person who studies natural history
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