This list is - more or less by definition - incomplete, dealing as it does with life's great imponderable questions, along with gibberish like postmodern theory... Worse, it is also horribly out of date. Let me be honest, I haven't updated it since the autumn of 2001¹. I don't think I'm ever going to get around to it, either. It was one of those good ideas that got abandoned soon after the author realised how much work would be involved...

Anyone who fancies starting something like this of their own, is welcome to take any material they want from this page and incorporate it into a (hopefully) more comprehensive and up to date list. A co-credit would be nice, but not essential. A posting to my homepage would also be nice, but once again I can't force anyone to be as courteous and considerate as me. The fact that I leave this stuff up at all is evidence enough that I'm not really too bothered about what happens to it...

General

Truth
The Problem of Free Will
What is the Mind / Body Problem?
Pascal's Wager
Lateral Thinking
Schr dinger's Cat
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
The Liar's Paradox
Complexity Theory
Fractals : Beautiful Mathematics
Entropy and Information
Propositional Logic
Superrationality

Socrates
Plato's Republic
Hypatia of Alexandria

Nietzsche
Wittgenstein

Critical Rationalism
Existentialism
Nihilism
Humanistic Theory

Philosophy of Mind

Artificial Intelligence
The Turing Test
John Searle's 'Chinese Room' Argument
Raymond Smullyman

Political Philosophy

The Political Perspective of Realism
Utilitarianism
Adam Smith : economist and philosopher
Libertarianism
Democracy
Socialism
Communism
Seeds of the American Revolution

Sociology / Cultural Studies

Postmodernism
Fredric Jameson's Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Aldi Stores as Culture
The Social Relevance of Comic Books in Western Society

Eastern Thought

The Tao te Ching
Gandhi
Taoism (forthcoming)

Green Thought

Not really philosophy, this stuff, but worth including here for the benefit of the thinking researcher...

Tips on how to be Planet Friendly
Working While Travelling - WWOOF

Theology / Religion

Most of these are written from viewpoints ranging from sceptical to openly heretical with regard to mainstream religious practices. While I tend to share this scepticism, I have of course made conscientious efforts to trawl through the Guide searching for feasible references to Christianity, Judaism, etc - to little avail, however. Anybody who knows of such resources lurking away in the darker corners of h2g2 and who wishes to inform me of the fact will, of course, be gratefully received...

The Bible
The Council of Nicea
Jesus Christ - Rebel Against Rome?

A Practical Definition of Paganism
The Five Elements in Relation to the Wiccan Religion
New Age

Atheism
Agnosticism
Evil From a Western Perspective
Manicheism, Catharism and the Heresy of the Free Spirit

For a wider selection of sceptical / atheist material go to the Freedom From Faith Foundation