The Middle Way provides multiple challenges to mainstream Western philosophy: for example to metaphysical claims, to entrenched dualisms such as reason v emotion, to representational accounts of meaning, and to the fact-value distinction.
In some ways virtually the whole site is about philosophy (in a very broad and practical sense). Linked here are pages from the site that particularly link to topics and thinkers in Western philosophy.
Introductory video
2a: How Western philosophy lost its way
Pages on general philosophical topics
Metaphysics, belief and science audio
Podcast interview with Peter Worley from the Philosophy Foundation (working with introducing philosophy to children)
Blog posts on philosophical issues by Robert M Ellis
The Misunderstanding of scepticism
Empowering words (on stipulation and the coining of new philosophical terms)
Seven contentions against the academics
Podcast interviews with philosophers
Julian Baggini (on virtues of the table)
Marek Duda (on effective altruism)
Alison Gopnik (on the philosophical baby)
Philip Kitcher (on secular humanism)
Jonathan Rowson (on the RSA Social Brain project)
Richard Shusterman (on somaesthetics)
Evan Thompson (on waking, dreaming, being)
Gay Watson (on the philosophy of emptiness)
Adam Briggle on when philosophy lost its way
Ethics: pages and blog posts
The current confusion about ethics (blog post)
Practical Ethics using the Middle Way (blog post)
Western philosophers who have contributed to our understanding of the Middle Way
Books
Review of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s ‘Antifragile’
Review of Lou Marinoff’s ‘The Middle Way’
Review of Kathryn Schulz’s ‘Being Wrong’
Review of Mark Johnson’s ‘Morality for humans’
Review of Sam Harris’s ‘The Moral Landscape’