What there is, what depends on what, and what a mind is. Covers both the 60.9.3.5 Metaphysics and 60.9.3.7 Mind folders.
Combined learning pathway: Unified curriculum — Phase 3: Metaphysics → Phase 4: Mind and freedom; later Phase 11: Moore and Heidegger. Follow the detailed book-and-resource checklist; use the specialist plan below for additional depth.
Start here: Metaphysics Study Plan, an 18-unit video-first course through the whole subject, with readings cited to chapter and page in your own books.
What Is Real?
- Subjectivism vs Objectivism · Subjectivism
- Cross-branch → Realism · Idealism · Reductionism · Absolutism
Grounding & Dependence
- Grounding · Supervenience
- Cross-branch → Axioms · Foundationalism
Universals & Particulars
- Books on Universals
- Cross-branch → Plato · Aristotle · William of Ockham · Neoplatonism
Free Will
- Free Will
- Cross-branch → Baruch Spinoza · Immanuel Kant · Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosophy of Mind
- Mind — dualism, the ghost in the machine, and the references shelf
- Hume vs. Kant on the Human Mind - What Modern Psychology and Neuroscience Support — motivation, moral judgment, infant cognition, perception, causality, and the self
- Sigmund Freud · Descartes' Error - Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain
- Are Ethics Just Emotions? - Simon Blackburn
Courses
- Metaphysics Study Plan — the self-study course (videos, SEP, and book chapters by topic)
- Intro to Metaphysics & Epistemology - Peterson Academy
Housekeeping
- Legacy index → 60.9.3.5 Metaphysics
Base index
Metaphysics Mind (MOC).base (file not included in this release)
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Agency, freedom and metaphysics
- Free Will vs Determinism — preserved working note or source capture