. There are two main applications of the term ‘naturalism’ in modern philosophy, one in metaphysics, epistemology and philosophy of mind and the other in ethics. What they have in common is the belief that the universe is all one, in the...

General philosophical belief that what is studied in the natural world is all that there is, ie that there is no supernatural intervention in the...

NATURALISM. In the broadest sense, naturalism can denote any philosophy in which "nature" or "the natural" functions as the most general explanatory or normative concept. What counts as naturalism in a particular context...

While the contention between congressional Democrats and Republicans is almost tangible on such issues as immigration, health care, energy policy and the economy, Congress has managed to find some unlikely common ground — creation of wilderness areas.Up to one dozen new wilderness areas are...

Immigrants who applied for citizenship after June 1 will have to wait more than a year to become Americans, immigration officials said Wednesday, a delay that will prevent many from voting in next November's elections.The delay is due to a deluge of applications that Citizenship...

Grumbling about gasoline prices has become as reflexive as complaining about the weather. But unlike the weather, investors in natural resources funds have discovered there is something they can do about rising prices.For starters, they can profit from it — at times handsomely. Surging demand...

There's more to the recent dramatic and alarming thawing of the Arctic region than can be explained by man-made global warming alone, a new study found. Nature is pushing the Arctic to the edge, too.There's a natural cause that may account for much of the...