The Grey Space is the place where ideas live. It is grey because the ultimate truths of the universe are contractory, neither black nor white but rather a beautiful grey space full of conflict and contradiction, that nevertheless admits to a perfectly self-consistent overall level of understanding. There is nothing mysterious about this grey space, and yet it holds all of the mysteries of the universe within it. This grey space lives within the grey matter of my brain, and your brain, and all other such systems capable of understanding these ideas.
This space is an interconnected set of hyperlinked pages, rendered and brought to life by Cogent Content. A good high-level point of departure is the Meaning of life.
The goal here is to create a self-consistent set of ideas, based on the accumulated "wisdom" in my brain, and and as such, I (Randall O'Reilly) retain final editorial control over the content, but welcome input from any and all about places where I might have gone astray or have major oversights etc. I'm not a professional philosopher by any stretch (despite having a "doctorate of philosophy" -- I'm not a doctor either!), and a core premise of the work here is that ultimately all the answers come from scientific understanding.
The main contribution of philosophy in this context is to establish links across very different areas of scientific understanding in order to find the self-consistent big picture, and to properly situate the nature of understanding within the fundamentally subjective nature of human experience, which provides our imperfect window into this wonderful grey space of ideas.
Stylistically, the goal is to be as concise and approachable as possible (particularly in the introductory portion of each page), with perhaps a greater degree of informality than is conventional. Eventually it would be great to also include more scholarly and detailed treatments after the big-picture intro, but we'll see how it goes.
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Alex Petrov has consistently provided insightful and scholarly ideas about all manner of philosophical issues, and the inspiration to actually get this site up and running in Dec, 2024 was as a direct result of discussions with him.
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David Jilk has also been a longtime collaborator and source of philosophical insight, and we are collaborating on an important paper about perspective dualism, which features centrally in the content here.