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
Other – miscellaneous small articles
How are the Mind and Brain Related?
What is the Nature of Reality?
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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