14 Facts About Metaphysical naturalism

Metaphysical naturalism is a philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences.

Methodological naturalism is a philosophical basis for science, for which metaphysical naturalism provides only one possible ontological foundation.

Hence, Metaphysical naturalism is polemically defined as repudiating the view that there exists or could exist any entities which lie, in principle, beyond the scope of scientific explanation.

The great majority of contemporary philosophers would happily accept Metaphysical naturalism as just characterized—that is, they would both reject 'supernatural' entities, and allow that science is a possible route to important truths about the 'human spirit'.

Metaphysical naturalism is the philosophical basis of science as described by Kate and Vitaly.

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Metaphysical naturalism naturalists do not believe in a soul or spirit, nor in ghosts, and when explaining what constitutes the mind they rarely appeal to substance dualism.

Metaphysical naturalism naturalists hold that intelligence is the refinement and improvement of naturally evolved faculties.

Version of Metaphysical naturalism that arose after Hegel was Ludwig Feuerbach's anthropological materialism, which influenced Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's historical materialism, Engels's "materialist dialectic" philosophy of nature, and their follower Georgi Plekhanov's dialectical materialism.

Politicized version of Metaphysical naturalism that has arisen in contemporary philosophy is Ayn Rand's Objectivism.

Currently, metaphysical naturalism is more widely embraced than in previous centuries, especially but not exclusively in the natural sciences and the Anglo-American, analytic philosophical communities.

Lowder believes "there are good empirical reasons for believing that metaphysical naturalism is true, and therefore a denial of the supernatural need not be based upon an a priori assumption".

Argument postulates that if, as Metaphysical naturalism entails, all of our thoughts are the effect of a physical cause, then we have no reason for assuming that they are the consequent of a reasonable ground.

Therefore, if Metaphysical naturalism were true, there would be no way of knowing it, except by a fluke.

Metaphysical naturalism showed that an argument could be valid and ground-consequent even if its propositions were generated via physical cause and effect by non-rational factors.