I was going to post a snarky comment to the effect that if you discard outright religious views and cognition motivated by them, there doesn’t seem to be much left to non-naturalism. But the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says it better:
There may be as much philosophical controversy about how to distinguish naturalism from non-naturalism as there is about which view is correct.
So non-naturalism looks like mostly a combination of religion and arguments over the meaning of the word “natural”. As in, if we found evidence that spirits of the dead affected physical events, that would promote them to the status of natural physical phenomena. So of course everything that exists is “natural”—according to some definitions of the word.
What is there to non-naturalism that is worth the time of seriously investigating it?
Other: Naturalism is the appropriate stance to take with respect to our own world, but our own world is (probably) not all there is. If the simulator were to intervene, then these interventions could reasonably be described as being supernatural. Does this view have a name already? If not, I nominate relativistic naturalism.
Metaphilosophy: naturalism or non-naturalism?
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I was going to post a snarky comment to the effect that if you discard outright religious views and cognition motivated by them, there doesn’t seem to be much left to non-naturalism. But the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy says it better:
So non-naturalism looks like mostly a combination of religion and arguments over the meaning of the word “natural”. As in, if we found evidence that spirits of the dead affected physical events, that would promote them to the status of natural physical phenomena. So of course everything that exists is “natural”—according to some definitions of the word.
What is there to non-naturalism that is worth the time of seriously investigating it?
How would you investigate it?
One could say the same thing of a lot of philosophy.
What is a naturalism?
Other: Naturalism is the appropriate stance to take with respect to our own world, but our own world is (probably) not all there is. If the simulator were to intervene, then these interventions could reasonably be described as being supernatural. Does this view have a name already? If not, I nominate relativistic naturalism.