This provocative and challenging book questions how people think about what universities should seek to do and how they should respond to the grave problems of our age.  Meer

How can there be sensory qualities - all that which gives meaning and value to life - if this world is really more or less as modern science tells us it is?  Meer

This book argues that two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves and other living things as a part of it; and learning how to become civilized.  Meer

This book gives an account of work that I have done over a period of decades that sets out to solve two fundamental problems of philosophy: the mind-body problem and the problem of induction.  Meer

Universities have long been dominated by a philosophy of inquiry that may be called knowledge-inquiry. This holds that, in order to do justice to the basic humanitarian aim of helping to promote human welfare, academic inquiry must, in the first instance, seek knowledge and technological know-how.  Meer