• What's New on This Site?
• My blog, The Unfinishable Scroll
• My other blog, Religion: the Next Version
• Online Papers and Essays
• My book
• My ebooks
• Philosophy Resources
• Publications
• About me and my research

• Philosophy
• Science and Mathematics
• Culture
• Politics

  
What's New?

• Debunking Dawkins:   In "The Anti-Dawkins Papers" (a section of my main blog), I expose the flaws in Richard Dawkins' atheistic book The God Delusion. If you want to become an atheist you'll have to find reasons better than the ones Dawkins gives.

• Free Ebook:   My philosophical ebook, The Unfinishable Book, is now available for free download. (Not to be confused with my blog, The Unfinishable Scroll.)

• Evolution and God:   Read "What's Really Wrong with the Argument from Design?" for an alternative view of this widely discussed topic. (The new view might be unacceptable to believers and atheists alike!) PDF format.

• New Blog about Religion:   Explore ideas about God and the soul without religious dogma. Religion: the Next Version discusses a spiritual viewpoint that's both rational and visionary.

• Blog of Many Topics:   Read The Unfinishable Scroll today. Explore ideas about the economy, the brain, and more.

 
My Blogs

My blog, The Unfinishable Scroll, has posts about science, religion, philosophy, and other interesting things. Check it out here.

My other blog, Religion: the Next Version, presents my ideas about what religion could be. Click here if you dare.

 
Online Papers and Essays

This site includes the following online papers and essays. All are in HTML or PDF formats. Writings too informal to be papers are marked as "essay," "notes," or the like.

This list doesn't include my published papers, which are on a separate list.

Consciousness and Mind

• "Qualia and the Problem of Universals"
• "I Am an Abstraction, Therefore I Am"
• "Platonizing the Abstract Self"
• "Can Machines Have First-Person Properties?"
• "As True as 'You Think': Preserving the Core of Folk Psychology"
• "Yes, We Have Conscious Will"

Physics / Philosophy of Physics

• "The Quantum Mechanical Path Integral: Toward a Realistic Interpretation"
• Papers on branching spacetime (links page)
• Three papers on the foundations of physics (links page)

Philosophy of Chemistry

• "Chemical Possibility and Modal Semantics"

Other Philosophy

• "Restoring the Foundations of Human Dignity" (essay & links page)
• "Getting Realistic about Nominalism"
• "Phonetic Possibility and Modal Logic"
• "How Subjective Fact Ties Language to Reality"
• "About Idealism" (essay)
• Notes about subjective fact (notes)
• "Debunking the Skeptics" (introductory page with links to essays)
• "God: the Next Version" (short ebook)
• "Religion and Beyond" (lecture/essay)
• "Anti–Postmodernist Paper #1: Seemsthat" (essay? you decide)
• "What's Really Wrong with the Argument from Design?" (lecture/essay)
• "Playing Fast and Loose with Complexity: A Critique of Dawkins' Atheistic Argument from Improbability"

Mathematics

• "Generalizing the Algebra of Physical Quantities"
• Also, check out Mark's Mathematical Musings (with links to papers and/or notes)

Culture

• The culture home page has links to essays, including "Liftoff to Progress."

Politics

• "Liftoff to Freedom" is my political subsite. It contains various political documents.

 
Philosophy Resources

Check out the Philosophy Resources and Other Links page.

 
My Books

My book From Brain to Cosmos explores some philosophical questions about consciousness, time and existence from a new vantage point. This book is available as a paperback and as a PDF ebook. Click here now to learn more!

My books God, Son of Quark and The Unfinishable Book, and some shorter works as well, are available as PDF ebooks. Click here for the details.

 
About Me

In case you're wondering about my background, I'm mainly a chemical physicist by training (Ph.D. in chemistry), but most of my research is in philosophy. My dissertation research was in statistical thermodynamics, a branch of chemical physics with known philosophical implications. Before that, I earned a bachelor's degree with a double major in physics and philosophy, followed by a masters' degree in biochemistry. My research has been published in peer reviewed journals in philosophy, physics and chemistry. Since I received my Ph.D., I've been a college instructor, a scientific computer programmer, and an independent writer and scholar.

 
About My Research

Here are some of my past and present research interests, in no particular order. For detailed information, please consult my publications list, my online papers, my book and ebooks, and the rest of the page that you are now reading.

Contact me at: msharlow AT usermail DOT com

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Page updated 5/26/09