Add to ORKG"Naturalization� nowadays is often recommended to cure all kinds of philosophical worries and solve old problems. There might be an "epistemology naturalized� and a naturalized philosophy of language. But "naturalism� is understood in quite different fashions. It might be meant as a metaphysical thesis more or the less equivalent to materialism, or it concerns the way of doing things philosophically. I will be concerned with partially explicating methodological naturalism in the philosophy of language. The essential question is (Q1) What is meant by giving a naturalistic explanation of some kind of linguistic behaviour? And assuming some answer to this question, the essential problem is (Q2) Do these naturalistic explanations explain ...