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Environmental philosophy – Branch of philosophy
Gentleman scientist – Financially independent scientistPages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
History of science
Natural environment – Living and non-living things on Earth
Natural theology – Theology reliant on rational and empirical arguments
Naturalism (philosophy) – Belief that only natural laws and forces operate in the universe
Nature (philosophy) – Philosophical term
Protoscience – Research field that may become a science

== References ==

== Further reading ==
Adler, Mortimer J. (1993). The Four Dimensions of Philosophy: Metaphysical, Moral, Objective, Categorical. Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-500574-X.
E.A. Burtt, Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Company, 1954).
Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy. Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. LCCN:2001036144 ISBN 0-19-514583-6
Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (1945) Simon & Schuster, 1972.
Santayana, George (1923). Scepticism and Animal Faith. Dover Publications. pp. 27–41. ISBN 0-486-20236-4. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
David Snoke, Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Physics and Western Thought. Access Research Network, 2003. ISBN 1-931796-25-4.Natural Philosophy: A Survey of Physics and Western Thought Welcome to The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine
Nancy R. Pearcey and Charles B. Thaxton, The Soul of Science: Christian Faith and Natural Philosophy (Crossway Books, 1994, ISBN 0891077669).
Alfred N. Whitehead, Process and Reality, The Macmillan Company, 1929.
René Thom, Modèles mathématiques de la morphogenèse, Christian Bourgois, 1980.
Claude Paul Bruter, Topologie et perception, Maloine, 3 vols. 1974/1976/1986.
Jean Largeault, Principes classiques d'interprétation de la nature, Vrin, 1988.
Moritz Schlick, Philosophy of Nature, Philosophical Library, New York, 1949.
Andrew G. Van Melsen, The Philosophy of Nature, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh 1954.
Miguel Espinoza, A Theory of Intelligibility. A Contribution to the Revival of the Philosophy of Nature, Thombooks Press, Toronto, ON, 2020.
Miguel Espinoza, La matière éternelle et ses harmonies éphémères, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2017.
Thagard, Paul (2019). Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190686444.

== External links ==

"Aristotle's Natural Philosophy", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Institute for the Study of Nature
"A Bigger Physics," a talk at MIT by Michael Augros
Other articles