The argument hinges on the idea that a satisfactory naturalistic account of thought processes in terms of brain processes can be given for mathematical reasoning along with everything else.

And these naturalistic accounts of the supposed inferiority of blacks and Jews eventually overtook the religious ones that dominated the debates of the early 19th century about slavery.

He developed a rational, secular, naturalistic and mechanistic account of the world and of human beings and gave a materialistic explanation of the origin of the universe.

Wang derided all this and made a vocation of giving a rational, naturalistic account of the world and the human place in it.

In addition to evolution, Shanks emphasized the role played by self-organization in a purely naturalistic account of biological and cosmological phenomena.

His research focuses on naturalistic accounts of the metaphysics of mind.

Furthermore, Hume purports to provide a naturalistic account of morality, at least to the extent that it is something that is common among the human species.

However, when he set out to put this plan into practice, he limited himself to showing how one, or several different, naturalistic accounts could explain certain natural phenomena.

Our brains are, after all, biological objects, and the best naturalistic account of their development in nature is Darwin's theory of evolution.

Science and medicine seek naturalistic accounts of the observable natural world.