Work Classification Layer
Works
Foundational texts located on the same six-dimensional grid as the schools and personas — but cited at chapter-and-verse precision. The works layer captures what personas cannot: author-stage shifts (early Wittgenstein vs late), anonymous and composite corpora (the Upanishads, the Tao Te Ching), and passage-level evidence for ontological readings.
1888 of 1888 classified · 2277 total cited
The Golden Notebook (Mid)
Lessing's 1962 experimental novel of women's lives — communist disillusion, psychic breakdown, integration
Decolonising the Mind (Late)
Ngũgĩ's 1986 manifesto — "Decolonising the Mind" — language and the African writer
Proof of an External World (Late)
Moore's 1939 lecture defending common-sense realism — "Here is one hand"
Sense and Sensibilia (Late)
Austin's 1962 posthumous Oxford lectures dismantling the sense-data theory of perception
The Unreality of Time (Late)
McTaggart's 1908 paper — the modern A-series / B-series debate and the argument that time is unreal
The Analysis of Mind (Mid)
Russell's 1921 lectures on neutral monism — mind as logical construction from neutral particulars
The Analysis of Matter (Mid)
Russell's 1927 companion to Analysis of Mind — structural realism in philosophy of physics
The Analysis of Sensations (Mid)
Mach's 1886 founding work of empiriocriticism — sensations as the fundamental elements
Scientific Thought (Mid)
Broad's 1923 critical-realist treatise — founding the growing-block theory of time
Past, Present and Future (Late)
Prior's 1967 founding work of modern tense logic — formal logic of time-indexed propositions
A Realist Theory of Science (Mid)
Bhaskar's 1975 founding work of critical realism — transcendental realism in philosophy of science
The Possibility of Naturalism (Mid)
Bhaskar's 1979 extension of critical realism to the social sciences
A Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God (Early)
Edwards's 1737 account of the Northampton revival — founding work of evangelical revivalism
Book of Concord (Late)
The 1580 collection of Lutheran confessions — the doctrinal standard of orthodox Lutheranism
Westminster Confession of Faith (Mid)
The 1646 Westminster Confession — Reformed confessional standard of English-speaking Presbyterianism
On True and False Religion (Mid)
Zwingli's 1525 systematic theology — the founding work of Reformed (Zwinglian) Protestantism
On the Providence of God (Late)
Zwingli's 1530 treatise on divine providence — the Reformed doctrine of universal divine governance
Christ and Culture (Late)
H. Richard Niebuhr's 1951 typology — Christ Against Culture, Of Culture, Above Culture, Paradox, Transforming Culture
New Testament and Mythology (Late)
Bultmann's 1941 essay launching the demythologization program in NT studies
Beyond God the Father (Mid)
Daly's 1973 founding work of radical feminist theology — beyond God the Father
God of the Oppressed (Mid)
Cone's 1975 mature articulation of Black liberation theology
On Job (Late)
Gutiérrez's 1987 liberation-theological reading of Job — speaking of God from the suffering of the innocent
Sexism and God-Talk (Mid)
Ruether's 1983 founding work of systematic feminist theology
Jesus the Liberator (Late)
Sobrino's 1991 liberation Christology — the historical Jesus from the perspective of the poor
The God of Life (Late)
Gutiérrez's 1991 mature theology of the living God of liberation
Instruction on Certain Aspects of the "Theology of Liberation" (Late)
The 1984 CDF Instruction (Libertatis Nuntius) — Vatican critique of Marxist liberation theology
God-Christ-Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology (Late)
Suchocki's 1989 accessible introduction to process theology
Process Theology: An Introductory Exposition (Mid)
Cobb and Griffin's 1976 founding introduction to process theology
The Divine Relativity (Mid)
Hartshorne's 1948 founding work of dipolar process theism — God as social being
Nature (Early)
Emerson's 1836 founding essay of American transcendentalism — the unity of mind and Nature
Self-Reliance (Mid)
Emerson's 1841 transcendentalist essay on individual moral authority — "Trust thyself"
Civil Disobedience (Mid)
Thoreau's 1849 founding essay on principled non-violent resistance to unjust government
Anti-Duhring (Late)
Engels's 1878 popular exposition of dialectical materialism — Marxist response to Dühring
Fathers and Sons (Mid)
Turgenev's 1862 Russian novel — the generational conflict and the figure of Bazarov the nihilist
Kindred (Mid)
Octavia Butler's 1979 time-travel novel — Dana pulled from 1976 Los Angeles to antebellum Maryland slavery
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities (Late)
Laplace's 1814 essay — classical determinism and the founding of probability theory
A New Kind of Science (Mid)
Wolfram's 2002 1200-page treatise — cellular automata, computational equivalence, computational universe
Homo Deus (Late)
Harari's 2016 speculative history of humanity's near future — dataism and the upgrade of Homo sapiens
The Singularity Is Near (Late)
Kurzweil's 2005 popular transhumanist treatise — the coming Singularity
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation? (Mid)
Bostrom's 2003 paper formulating the simulation argument
Snow Crash (Mid)
Stephenson's 1992 cyberpunk novel — the Metaverse and viral linguistic-religious code
The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Mid)
Tsongkhapa's 1402 great treatise on the stages of the path to enlightenment
Realism with a Human Face (Late)
Putnam's 1990 mature articulation of pragmatic realism
Hyperobjects (Late)
Morton's 2013 founding work of dark ecology — hyperobjects massively distributed in time and space
The Quadruple Object (Late)
Harman's 2011 mature articulation of object-oriented ontology — the fourfold structure of every object
The Structure of Objects (Mid)
Koslicki's 2008 neo-Aristotelian hylomorphic theory of material composition
Things and Their Parts (Mid)
Fine's 1999 paper — hylomorphic structure distinguished from mereological aggregate
Writing the Book of the World (Mid)
Sider's 2011/2014 systematic metaphysics — structural realism about fundamental reality
Animism: Respecting the Living World (Late)
Harvey's 2005 founding work of the new animism — relational ontology and indigenous religions
The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement (Mid)
Naess's 1973 founding paper of deep ecology — biospheric egalitarianism
Relative State Formulation of Quantum Mechanics (Early)
Everett's 1957 paper founding the many-worlds (relative-state) interpretation of quantum mechanics
Capital (Late)
Marx's 1867-94 magnum opus on the critique of political economy — the three-volume Capital project
The Structure of the World (Late)
French's 2014 development of ontic structural realism — structures are all there is
Black Quantum Futurism: Theory and Practice (Late)
Phillips's 2015 founding text of Black Quantum Futurism
More Brilliant than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction (Mid)
Eshun's 1998 founding theoretical work of Afrofuturist sonic theory
Space Is the Place (Mid)
Sun Ra's 1974 Afrofuturist film and album — outer-space as Black liberation
Food of the Gods (Late)
McKenna's 1992 founding work of psychedelic-evolutionary anthropology — the "stoned ape" hypothesis
Realms of the Human Unconscious (Mid)
Grof's 1975 founding work of LSD-assisted psychotherapy — perinatal matrices and transpersonal psychology
Quantum Healing (Mid)
Chopra's 1989 founding work of New Age mind-body medicine
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (Late)
Chopra's 1993 mind-body programme for reversing the aging process