Sentence examples for methodological naturalism which from inspiring English sources

Scientific inquiry employs a "methodological naturalism" which seeks natural explanations for natural phenomena.

There are a variety of naturalisms, including: ontological naturalism, which holds that reality contains no supernatural entities; methodological naturalism, which holds that philosophical inquiry should be consistent with scientific method; and moral naturalism, which typically holds that there are moral facts and that such facts are part of the natural world.

Proponents of the intelligent design movement such as Cornelius G. Hunter, have asserted that the methodological naturalism upon which science is based is religious in nature.

Penelope Maddy's naturalism is a heterogeneous form of naturalism which distinguishes between mathematics proper and the philosophy of mathematics, embracing mathematical naturalism about the former and scientific naturalism about the latter (section 5).

The point here is the naturalism which we have emphasized throughout.

Thus teleology is crucial for the political naturalism which is at the foundation of Aristotle's political philosophy.

There was, on the one hand, extreme naturalism, which he attributed to Gregory of Rimini (DL II, 6.3).

Creationists either ignore or fail to understand the distinction between science's naturalistic methodology, under which scientists must seek only natural explanations of natural phenomena (methodological naturalism), and a comprehensive, nontheistic view of the universe that denies the existence of the supernatural (metaphysical naturalism).

Many students confuse methodological and philosophical naturalism, or infer the latter from the former, reasoning that because it is possible to explain so much of the natural world through natural causes (methodological naturalism), it follows that there are no supernatural entities and (in particular) no God (philosophical naturalism).

It is because of such considerations that scientific methodology is restricted to appeals to natural causes; methodological naturalism is a basic principle of science because it is essential for the very idea of empirical evidence (Pennock 1999).

Methodological naturalism fits more naturally with some areas of philosophy than others.