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The Oxford handbook of meaning in life / edited by Iddo Landau.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Life.
- Meaning (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of meaning in life
- Meaning in life
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- This handbook presents ground-breaking work, offering the first published scholarly companion to the philosophical study of meaning in life. It covers issues as wide-ranging as the science and metaphysics of meaning in life, religion, ethics, philosophical psychology, and the application of meaning in life to difficult topics including suffering, suicide, and pessimism.
- Contents:
- The Concept of a Life's Meaning / Thaddeus Metz
- Can Neuroscience Shed Light on What Constitutes a Meaningful Life? / P. M. S. Hacker
- Personal Identity and Meaning in Life / Marya Schechtman
- Hard Determinism and Meaning in Life / Derk Pereboom
- Meaning in Life and the Nature of Time / Ned Markosian
- Atheism and Meaning in Life / Erik J. Wielenberg
- Theism and Meaning in Life / T. J. Mawson
- Mysticism, Ritual, and the Meaning of Life / Guy Bennett-Hunter
- Meaning and Morality / Todd May
- Between Sisyphus's Rock and a Warm and Fuzzy Place: Procreative Ethics and the Meaning of Life / Rivka Weinberg
- Subjectivism and Objectivism about Meaning in Life / Jens Johansson, Frans Svensson
- Nature, Animals, and Meaning in Life / Katie McShane
- Forgiveness and Meaning in Life / Lucy Allais
- The Rationality of Suicide and the Meaningfulness of Life / Michael Cholbi
- Psychological Approaches to Life's Meaning / Roy F. Baumeister
- The Experience of Meaning / Antti Kauppinen
- Love and Meaning in Life / Alan H. Goldman
- Desire and Meaning in Life: Towards a Theory / Nomy Arpaly
- Gratitude and Meaning in life / Tony Manela
- Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life / Sven Nyholm, Stephen M. Campbell
- Meaning in Life and Phoniness / Iddo Landau
- Education and Meaning in Life / Doret de Ruyter, Anders Schinkel
- Suffering and Meaning in Life / Michael S. Brady
- The Meaning of Life and Death / Steven Luper
- Pessimism, Optimism, and Meaning in Life / David Benatar
- Virtual Reality and the Meaning of Life / John Danaher
- Introduction / Iddo Landau
- The Meaning of Life and Transcendence / John Cottingham
- Achievement and Meaning in Life / Gwen Bradford
- Narrativity and Meaning in Life / Galen Strawson
- Meaningfulness and Importance / Guy Kahane
- Paradoxes and Meaning in Life / Saul Smilansky
- The Relevance of Neuroscience to Meaning in Life / Paul Thagard.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 12, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780190063535 (ebook) :
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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