Bill Meacham, Ph.D.

What's What: Philosophical Writings Bill Meacham got his college and university degrees in philosophy and then left that field to make his living as a programmer, software designer, project manager and requirements analyst. But he never quit thinking about the nature of reality and his place in it, the nature of human beings and how it makes sense to live our lives.

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Status

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Dec 5, 2023 — 4 min read

It’s not the drive for high status that is damaging or degrading. That we have such a drive is just a fact about human nature. It’s how we manifest that drive, what we do to assert status and how, that is important.

Cognitive Phenomenology

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Nov 21, 2023 — 16 min read

The debate is whether such a thing exists. I find it peculiar because it seems to me quite obvious that it does, but apparently some people find it equally obvious that it does not.

Daniel Dennett, Existentialist?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Nov 21, 2023 — 8 min read

Organisms Are Not Machines

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Nov 20, 2023 — 7 min read

An Impeccable Death

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Nov 17, 2023 — 12 min read

Reassessing Morality

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Apr 29, 2023 — 29 min read

Ways to Say "Should"

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Apr 15, 2023 — 10 min read

On Faith

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Apr 4, 2023 — 7 min read

A Whiteheadian Solution to the Combination Problem

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 28, 2023 — 11 min read

Do Plants Have Goals?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 28, 2023 — 8 min read

An unhelpful idiom

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 25, 2023 — 3 min read

Arguing For God

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 19, 2023 — 7 min read

The Most Important Thing to Know

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 16, 2023 — 5 min read

The Good

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 13, 2023 — 8 min read

Is Science a Religion?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 12, 2023 — 8 min read

Teleological Evolution

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 1, 2023 — 16 min read

Being Immortal

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Mar 1, 2023 — 7 min read

A Finely Tuned Universe

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Feb 23, 2023 — 9 min read

Life Has No Meaning. So What?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Feb 17, 2023 — 12 min read

In Defense of Panpsychism

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Feb 14, 2023 — 11 min read

Self After Death

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Feb 14, 2023 — 7 min read

Simone de Beauvoir: A Philosophy of Liberation

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Feb 10, 2023 — 11 min read

What do you do with a peak experience?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jan 3, 2023 — 3 min read

Learning from Zarathustra

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Dec 18, 2022 — 10 min read

Some Observations on C. S. Peirce

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Oct 22, 2022 — 12 min read

Pragmatism and The Good

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jul 7, 2022 — 14 min read

The Soul is a Point Of View

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jul 6, 2022 — 7 min read

The Not-Quite-Rational Animal

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jul 2, 2022 — 5 min read

Soul Function

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 27, 2022 — 13 min read

More About Function

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 27, 2022 — 11 min read

Sentient Beings

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 24, 2022 — 4 min read

Mental Causation

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 11, 2022 — 5 min read

Mondragon: Reinventing Humanity

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 9, 2022 — 8 min read

Dead or Alive?

by Bill Meacham, Ph.D. in Bill Meacham, Ph.D. Jun 7, 2022 — 5 min read

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