Natural philosophy

Thinking hardly or hardly thinking? Philosophy

Major trains of thought

Logic Morality Reality

The good, the bad, and the brain fart

Dualism Reductionism Apollonian and Dionysian Materialism Integrity Philosophy Causality Everlasting No

Come to think of it

Religion Science Philosophy of science Ethics Psychology v - t - e

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Natural philosophy is a term nobody uses any more. Its use roughly coincides with The Enlightenment, the period between the mid-17^th and early-18^th centuries, when the foundations of what is now known as science were laid by people such as Isaac Newton, René Descartes, Robert Hooke and Antonie van Leeuwenhoek.

In natural philosophy, there is an emphasis on deduction as a means of obtaining knowledge, in contrast to the modern emphasis on induction.

Probably the most famous use of the term is in the title of Newton's seminal work Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy).