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Episode 10 – Beyond Scientism - Philosophical Knowing | Fr. James Brent, O.P..mp3

Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy

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What Is Naturalism?

Australian philosopher David Armstrong defines naturalism as the doctrine that reality consists of nothing but a single, all embracing, spatiotemporal system. He says this allows him to say what he wants to say regarding what there is or what there could be perhaps. A distinction is typically drawn between naturalism and what's often now called physicalism. It's another kind of raw assertion: The physical is all there is.

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