In the arts

• Naturalism (arts), a style in painting and the visual arts
• Naturalism (literature)
  Naturalism (literature)
  Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character...
  
  , a literary style
• Naturalism (theatre)
  Naturalism (theatre)
  Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to theatre that attempts to create a perfect illusion of reality through a range of dramatic and theatrical strategies: detailed, three-dimensional settings Naturalism is a...
  
  , a movement in theatre and drama that began in the 19th century

In philosophy and science

• Methodological naturalism, naturalism that holds that science is to be done without reference to supernatural causes; also refers to a methodological assumption in the philosophy of religion that observable events are fully explainable by natural causes without reference to the supernatural
• Metaphysical naturalism
  Metaphysical naturalism
  Metaphysical naturalism, also called ontological naturalism and philosophical naturalism, or just naturalism, is a philosophical worldview and belief system that holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences, i.e., those...
  
  , a form of naturalism that holds that the cosmos consists only of objects studied by the natural sciences, and does not include any immaterial or intentional realities
• Ethical naturalism
  Ethical naturalism
  Ethical naturalism is the meta-ethical view which claims that:# Ethical sentences express propositions.# Some such propositions are true....
  
  , the theory that ethical terms can be defined in non-ethical terms, namely, descriptive terms mainly from the natural sciences
• Spiritual naturalism
  Spiritual Naturalism
  Naturalistic Spirituality and Spiritual Naturalism are interchangeable terms for the same philosophical perspective, with the latter term more commonly used...
  
  , an approach to spirituality that is devoid of supernaturalism
• Religious naturalism
  Religious naturalism
  Religious naturalism is an approach to spirituality that is devoid of supernaturalism. The focus is on the religious attributes of the universe/Nature, the understanding of it and our response to it . These provide for the development of an eco-morality...
  
  , religious, institutions, rituals, doctrines and communities which do not include supernatural beliefs
• Humanistic naturalism
  Humanistic naturalism
  Humanistic naturalism is the branch of philosophical naturalism wherein human beings are best able to control and understand the world through use of the scientific method. Concepts of spirituality, intuition, and metaphysics are not pursued because they are unfalsifiable, and therefore can never...
  
   emphasises scientific reasoning as a basis for humane behavior
• Naturalistic fallacy
  Naturalistic fallacy
  The naturalistic fallacy is often claimed to be a formal fallacy. It was described and named by British philosopher G. E. Moore in his 1903 book Principia Ethica...
  
  , appealing to a definition of the term "good" in terms of one or more natural properties
• Sociological naturalism
  Sociological naturalism
  Sociological naturalism is a theory that states that the natural world and social world are roughly identical and governed by similar principles...
  
   is the view that the natural world and the social world are roughly identical and governed by similar principles
• Political naturalism
  Political naturalism
  Political naturalism is a minor political ideology and legal system which believes that there is a natural law, just and obvious to all, that crosses ideologies, faiths and personal thinking, that naturally guaranties justice...
  
   is a politic and legal system based on the belief in the existence of a fair natural law
• Naturalistic observation
  Naturalistic observation
  Naturalistic observation is a research tool in which a subject is observed in its natural habitat without any manipulation by the observer. During naturalistic observation researchers take great care to avoid interfering with the behavior they are observing by using unobtrusive methods...
  
   is an empirical method of study by which the researcher introduces no outside stimulus, instead witnessing behavior as it naturally occurs in the environment

See also

• Natural history
  Natural history
  Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards observational rather than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, natural history is the systematic study...
  
  , especially in older texts
• Naturism
  Naturism
  Naturism or nudism is a cultural and political movement practising, advocating and defending social nudity in private and in public. It may also refer to a lifestyle based on personal, family and/or social nudism....
  
  , the practice of "social nudity"