Author: Richard Carrier
Richard Carrier holds a PhD in the history of ancient science from Columbia University and is the author of Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism (AuthorHouse, 2005).
On Defining Naturalism as a Worldview
What is naturalism? As a worldview distinct from any form of “supernaturalism,” “naturalism” is the belief that nature is (probably) all there is, and nothing supernatural exists. Of course, the word naturalism can be used in other ways. In the art world, it means one thing; as a special term in epistemology, it means something …