What's What: Philosophical Writings

By Bill Meacham

You can read these papers in any order, but I recommend you start with the Introduction. It's short.

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Introduction (html);   PDF 76 KB

Ethics

Ethics: The Good and the Right (html);   PDF 197 KB

Human Nature

Do Humans Have Free Will? (html);   PDF 103 KB

Humans as Primates (draft);   PDF 109 KB

Self, Soul and Ego (html);   PDF 116 KB

Metaphysics

Tao Te Ching Ontology (html);   PDF 296 KB

Metaphysics, or The Nature of Reality (html);   PDF 131 KB

The Quantum Level of Reality (html);   PDF 545 KB

Insight

The Fundamental Insight (html);   PDF 100 KB

Spiritual Practice (html);   PDF 25 KB

Phenomenology

Consciousness and Experience (html);   PDF 154 KB

Phenomenology of the Self (html);   PDF 273 KB

Epistemology

Truth (html);   PDF 66 KB

Other – miscellaneous small articles

Is there a God?

How are the Mind and Brain Related?

Why Be Good?

What is the Nature of Reality?

What is the Meaning Of Life?

Faith

Works by Other People

These are works I consider important enough to reproduce here.

'Right and Good' from The Dictionary of the History of Ideas

William James: A World of Pure Experience

William James: Does 'Consciousness' Exist

William James: The Will to Believe

 

 


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