KnowraMetaphysical naturalismLinked fromLinked fromThe 9 pages that link to Metaphysical naturalism, each with the reason it gives.All 9Broader topic 2Related 2Narrower topic 2Compared with 3PhysicalismNarrower topic: Physicalism is a more specific naturalist thesis about what reality fundamentally includes.NaturalismBroader topic: It states the ontological commitment often associated with naturalism.Religious naturalismBroader topic: It states the ontological commitment that distinguishes religious naturalism from supernatural religion.Ordinary language philosophyCompared with: Naturalist critics question whether linguistic description alone can settle substantive philosophical questions.Scientific theoryCompared with: A scientific theory explains natural phenomena without, by itself, settling this broader philosophical claim.SubstanceRelated: Naturalist accounts ask whether substances reduce to the entities studied by the sciences.Scientific naturalismRelated: It states the ontological commitment that scientific naturalism adopts.Hilary PutnamCompared with: Putnam’s later pragmatism resisted treating scientific description as the sole measure of reality.Spiritual naturalismNarrower topic: It supplies the worldview boundary within which spiritual naturalism locates meaning.