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The 28 pages that link to Naturalism, each with the reason it gives.

• Social realismCompared with: Naturalism often explains hardship through determinism, while social realism emphasizes social conditions and conflict.

• PhenomenologyCompared with: Phenomenology resists treating first-person experience as fully explained by natural-scientific accounts.

• Émile ZolaCompared with: Zola’s literary naturalism drew on scientific language but was a distinct artistic program.

• Christian apologeticsCompared with: Its account of reality conflicts with apologetic appeals to divine action and miracles.

• Anthropic principleCompared with: Anthropic selection can be used within naturalistic explanations without positing cosmic purpose.

• TranscendenceCompared with: Naturalism rejects realities beyond nature, challenging a central interpretation of transcendence.

• Philosophy of religionCompared with: It offers a non-supernatural framework against which religious explanations are assessed.

• SupernaturalCompared with: It rejects the existence of anything beyond nature.

• TianCompared with: Some accounts of Tian approach naturalism, while others retain moral or sacred force.

• Creator deityCompared with: It accounts for the universe without positing a divine source.

• John McDowellCompared with: McDowell rejects reductive naturalism while seeking to understand reason as part of human nature.

• Fundamental theologyCompared with: It challenges the discipline’s claims that revelation and divine action are possible.

• MetaphilosophyCompared with: It contests accounts that give philosophy methods or knowledge independent of science.

• GeisteswissenschaftCompared with: Naturalism challenges the idea that human studies need methods distinct from natural science.