Naturalism (philosophy)

Naturalism is any of several philosophical stances, typically those descended from materialism and pragmatism, that does not distinguish between the supernatural and the natural. It does not claim that phenomena or hypotheses commonly labeled supernatural necessarily do not exist or are wrong, but insists that they are not inherently different from any other hypotheses or phenomena and can be studied by the same methods.

Critical links

• Naturalism article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
• Alvin Plantinga's (John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame) evolutionary argument against naturalism
• Victor Reppert's C. S. LEWIS'S DANGEROUS IDEA: In Defense of the Argument from Reason
• Philip Johnson's Evolution as Dogma: The Establishment of Naturalism from First Things