Naturalism may refer to:

Arts

Realism Realism, Realistic, or Realists may refer to: In the arts *Realism (arts), the general attempt to depict subjects truthfully in different forms of the arts Arts movements related to realism include: *American Realism *Classical Realism *Liter ...

Naturalism (literature) Naturalism is a literary movement beginning in the late nineteenth century, similar to literary realism in its rejection of Romanticism, but distinct in its embrace of determinism, detachment, scientific objectivism, and social commentary. Lite ...

, a literary movement beginning in the late 19th century **

Naturalism (theatre) Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create an illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies. Interes ...

, a movement in European drama and theatre **

Poetic naturalism ''The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself'' is a non-fiction book by American theoretical physicist Sean M. Carroll. The book was published on May 10, 2016, by Dutton. In his fourth book, Carroll defends the argu ...

, an approach of Sean M. Carroll

Philosophy

Naturalism (philosophy) In philosophy, naturalism is the idea that only Scientific law, natural laws and forces (as opposed to supernatural ones) operate in the universe. In its primary sense, it is also known as ontological naturalism, metaphysical naturalism, pure ...

, the idea that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe **

Humanistic naturalism Secular humanism is a philosophy, belief system, or life stance that embraces human reason, logic, secular ethics, and philosophical naturalism, while specifically rejecting religious dogma, supernaturalism, and superstition as the basis of ...

, a branch of philosophical naturalism **

Liberal naturalism Liberal naturalism is a heterodox form of philosophical naturalism that rejects both scientific (or reductive) naturalism and supernaturalism. It allows that one can respect the explanations and results of the successful sciences without supposing ...

, a heterodox form of philosophical naturalism **

Metaphysical naturalism Metaphysical naturalism (also called ontological naturalism, philosophical naturalism and antisupernaturalism) is a philosophical worldview which holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by ...

, a philosophical basis for science **

Religious naturalism Religious naturalism is a framework for religious orientation in which a naturalist worldview is used to respond to types of questions and aspirations that are parts of many religions. It has been described as "a perspective that finds religious ...

– combines a naturalist worldview with ideals associated with many religions **

Spiritual naturalism Spiritual naturalism, or naturalistic spirituality combines a naturalist philosophy with spirituality. Spiritual naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1895 in his book ''En Route''. Coming into prominence as a writer ...

– combines a naturalist approach with spiritual ways of looking at the world ** Transcendental naturalism – combines a naturalist approach with the idea that human cognition is fundamentally incapable of solving certain philosophical problems *

Ethical naturalism Ethical naturalism (also called moral naturalism or naturalistic cognitivistic definism) is the meta-ethical view that holds that moral properties and facts are reducible to natural properties and can be studied through empirical or scientific me ...

, or moral naturalism *

Dialectical naturalism Murray Bookchin (; January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American social theorist, author, orator, historian, and political philosopher. Influenced by G. W. F. Hegel, Karl Marx, and Peter Kropotkin, he was a pioneer in the environmental ...

, a term coined by Murray Bookchin * Political naturalism, a belief that there is a natural law *

School of Naturalists The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-Yang () was a Warring States-era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Five Elements. It was one of the Nine Schools of Thought. History The School of Naturalists did not ...

, a Chinese Warring States-era philosophy also known as the School of Yin-Yang

Sciences

Sociological naturalism Sociological naturalism is a theory that states that natural and society are roughly identical and governed by similar principles. In sociological texts, it is simply referred to as naturalism and can be traced back to the philosophical thinking ...

, the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical **

Critical naturalism Ram Roy Bhaskar (; 15 May 1944 – 19 November 2014) was an English philosopher of science who is best known as the initiator of the philosophical movement of critical realism (CR). Bhaskar argued that the task of science is "the production of ...

, an idea of Roy Bhaskar *

Natural history Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

, a domain of inquiry involving organisms **

Naturalist Natural history is a domain of inquiry involving organisms, including animals, fungi, and plants, in their natural environment, leaning more towards observational than experimental methods of study. A person who studies natural history is cal ...

, a person who studies natural history *

Naturalistic observation Naturalistic observation, sometimes referred to as fieldwork, is a research methodology in numerous fields of science including ethology, anthropology, linguistics, the social sciences, and psychology, in which data are collected as they occur in ...

, a research methodology

Horses

Naturalism (horse) Naturalism (19 October 1988 – 13 July 2018) was a New Zealand-bred Australian-trained thoroughbred horse racing, racehorse. Background Foaled in New Zealand on 19 October 1988, Naturalism was a bay stallion sired by Palace Music (horse), Pal ...

(1988–2018), a racehorse

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