"We deplore efforts to degrade human intelligence, to seek to explain the world in supernatural terms, and to look outside nature for salvation. We are committed to separation of church and state." - ...

This is part 3 of this interview: click here for part 2. This is the fourth in a new series of articles on Science and Philosophy, featuring interviews with influential scientists and philosophers of ...

Naturalism is a broad category in philosophy that has its roots in natural philosophy. In Europe, before the scientific Enlightenment, scholars differentiated the world into the natural and ...

Logical positivism, widely regarded as the received epistemology of psychology in the first half of the 20th century, was supplanted in the 1960s by various postpositivistic, relativistic philosophies ...

Two opposed movements of thought threaten philosophy as an autonomous practice from the inside: scientific naturalism and quietism. Naturalism (qua methodological thesis) threatens to turn philosophy ...

The philosophy professor seeks to disentangle sound science from naturalistic dogma. Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga Oxford University Press, ...

The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism Philosophy of Social Ecology This edition of The Philosophy of Social Ecology has been so radically revised that in many respects it ...

This essay compares and contrasts pragmatic naturalism with the more well known position of epistemological naturalism on several pivotal issues, in the process offering a pragmatic critique of the ...

World-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82. Stunned reactions to ...

Today's politically correct version of naturalism hides behind an idealised vision of Darwin as someone who would have welcomed the molecular revolution in genetics but would never license eugenics.