Naturalification

The act of explaining all phenomena, including human society, culture, and mind, as natural phenomena subject to the same laws as physical nature. Naturalification erases the distinction between nature and society, reducing social facts to biological or physical facts. It is common in sociobiology, evolutionary psychology, and some strains of materialism. Critics argue that naturalification commits the naturalistic fallacy: what is natural is not necessarily good, and human culture often transcends biological imperatives. It also ignores that social facts are real but not reducible to nature.

Naturalification Example: “The naturalifier explained patriarchy as ‘evolved male dominance strategies,’ ignoring that many societies have been matrilineal or egalitarian. He mistook current social arrangements for eternal nature.”

Naturalification by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal June 6, 2026