Anything Quote by Sean M. Carroll

Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out…

— William A. Dembski

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

— Tim Crane

“Naturalism is a picture of the whole of reality that cannot, according to its own intrinsic premises, address the being of the whole; it…

— David Bentley Hart

To accept Naturalism is to reject such entities as Cartesian minds, private visual and tactual spaces, angelic beings and God.

— David Malet Armstrong

It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for…

— C. S. Lewis

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

— Greg Graffin

In our greatest universities, naturalism - the doctrine that nature is all there is - is the virtually unquestioned assumption that underlies not only…

— Philip Johnson

“Humanism is naturalism.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.”

— David Bentley Hart

“The only fully consistent alternative to belief in God, properly understood, is some version of “materialism” or “physicalism” or (to use the term most…

— David Bentley Hart

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

— Ben Okri

There has certainly been a great deal of work addressing the relationship between naturalism and the first-person perspective. Quite a number of philosophers have…

— Hilary Kornblith