Definition of "naturalizing" []

• Present participle of naturalize. (verb)

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• "It could be argued, of course, that Darwinism is the final step in this process of "naturalizing" science, and that the earlier scientists failed to see the ultimate logical implications of what they were doing."
• "Now this term "naturalizing" has led more than one mind into confusing this order of problems with another order of problems, that is to say, into extending to history the laws and the manners of thinking which have already appeared suitable to the study and explanation of the material world in general and of the animal world in particular."
• "A stimulus-response model adapted from scientific psychology ” what we might now call the naturalizing of aesthetics ” falsifies the genuine complexities of aesthetic psychology through a methodologically enforced reduction to one narrow and unitary conception of aesthetic engagement."