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• The World and the Individual: Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of Aberdeen (2 volumes; New York and London: Macmillan, 1901), by Josiah Royce
  • first series (The Fourt Historical Conceptions of Being): multiple formats at archive.org
  • second series (Nature, Man and the Moral Order): multiple formats at archive.org
• Appearance and Reality: A Metaphysical Essay (second edition), by F. H. Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Scientific Fact and Metaphysical Reality, by Robert Brandon Arnold (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sensational Subjects: The Dramatization of Experience in the Modern World (London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2015), by John Jervis (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections)
• Creative Experience (originally published 1924), by Mary Parker Follett (page images at Toronto)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)

• No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe (c2001), by Matt Young (PDF at mines.edu)
• The Scepticism of British Empiricism (handwritten University of Michigan masters' thesis; 1889), by Elisha M. Hartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Empirical Philosophy, by John Anderson (HTML at SETIS)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2014), ed. by Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold John Cook (page images at HathiTrust)

• Philosophy of Science and Education: Chinese and European Views (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1995), ed. by Shen Qingsong, Tran Van Doan, and Fritz Wallner (multiple formats at Google)
• Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), by Timothy Morton (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• A Defence of Idealism: Some Questions and Conclusions (London: Macmillan and Co., 1917), by May Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Experimental Logic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1916), by John Dewey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Speculations (2010-) (full serial archives)

• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)

• The Thirteen Pragmatisms and Other Essays (originally published 1963; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Arthur O. Lovejoy (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Pragmatism and the Crisis of Democracy (Public policy pamphlet #12; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1934), by Charles W. Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Metaphysics of Pragmatism (Chicago and London: Open Court Pub. Co., 1927), by Sidney Hook, contrib. by John Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)
• Chance, Love, and Logic: Philosophical Essays (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co.; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1923), by Charles S. Peirce, ed. by Morris R. Cohen, contrib. by John Dewey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Pragmatism, by D. L. Murray, contrib. by F. C. S. Schiller (Gutenberg text)
• Pragmatism: A New Name For Some Old Ways of Thinking, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1917), by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, and Horace Meyer Kallen (Gutenberg text)
• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dogmatism and Evolution: Studies in Modern Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1910), by Theodore De Laguna and Grace Andrus De Laguna (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Essays in Radical Empiricism, by William James (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Meaning of Truth, by William James (Gutenberg text)
• The Philosophy of William James, Drawn From His Own Works (New York: Modern Library, c1925), by William James, ed. by Horace Meyer Kallen (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Vital Lies: Studies of Some Varieties of Recent Obscurantism (2 volumes; London: J. Lane; et al., 1912), by Vernon Lee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Last Stand of Dialectic Materialism: A Study of Sidney Hook's Marxism (New York: Polemic Publishers, 1934), by Max Eastman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Philosophie des Als Ob: System der Theoretischen, Praktischen und Religiösen Fiktionen der Menschheit auf Grund eines Idealistischen Positivismus, Mit Einem Anhang Über Kant und Nietzsche (7th and 8th edition, in German; Leipzig: F. Meiner, 1922), by Hans Vaihinger (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A True Monistic Philosophy: Comprehending the Absolute, God, Existence, Man, Society and History (2 volumes; c1947-1955), by Harry Waton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Welträthsel: Gemeinverständliche Studien über Monistische Philosophie (in German; Bonn: E. Strauss, 1899), by Ernst Haeckel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Die Welträtsel: Gemeinverständliche Studien über Monistische Philosophie (in German; Leipzig: A. Kröner, 1909), by Ernst Haeckel (Gutenberg text)
• Monism, As Connecting Religion and Science (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1895), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by J. Gilchrist
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century (New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1905), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Joseph McCabe
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Le Traité "De Unitate Formae" de Gilles de Lessines (Les Philosophes Belges, v1, in French: Louvain: Institut Supérieur de Philosophie de l'Université, 1901), by Giles of Lessines, ed. by M. de Wulf
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Les Énigmes de l'Univers (in French; Paris: C. Reinwald, 1902), by Ernst Haeckel, trans. by Camille Bos (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Matter: A Criticism of Professor Haeckel's "Riddle of the Universe" (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905), by Oliver Lodge (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Answer of Ernst Haeckel to the Falsehoods of the Jesuits, Catholic and Protestant, From the German pamphlet "Sandalion", and "My Church Departure": Being Haeckel's Reasons, as Stated by Himself, for His Late Withdrawal from the Free Evangelical Church (New York: The Truth seeker company, c1911), by Ernst Haeckel, contrib. by Joseph McCabe and Thaddeus Burr Wakeman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ethics at the Crossroads (2 volumes; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1996), ed. by George F. McLean
  • Volume I (Normative Ethics and Objective Reason): PDF at crvp.org
  • Volume II (Personalist Ethics and Human Subjectivity): PDF at crvp.org
• Objectivity (New York: Noonday Press, 1955), by William Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity: The Limits of Political Realism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Gregory Crane (HTML at UC Press)
• Naive Metaphysics: A Theory of Subjective and Objective Worlds, by Geoffrey V. Klempner (zipped PDF with commentary at philosophypathways.com)

• The Arbiters of Reality: Hawthorne, Melville, and the Rise of Mass Information Culture (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2008), by Peter West (PDF at Ohio State)

• Ideas About Substance (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Albert L. Hammond (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• On Being and Essence, by Saint Thomas Aquinas, trans. by Robert T. Miller (HTML at Fordham)

• Virtual Body Language: The History and Future of Avatars; How Nonverbal Expression is Evolving on the Internet (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), by Jeffrey Ventrella (PDF with commentary at CMU)
• Virtual Reality: Scientific and Technological Challenges (1995), ed. by Nathaniel I. Durlach and Anne S. Mavor (page images with commentary at NAP)
• City of Bits: Space, Place, and the Infobahn (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c1996), by William Mitchell (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Nonverbal Communication in Virtual Worlds: Understanding and Designing Expressive Characters (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, 2014), ed. by Joshua Tanenbaum, Magy Seif El-Nasr, and Michael Nixon (PDF with commentary at CMU)

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