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Author:   Iddo Landau (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa, Israel)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 25.40cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 17.80cm
Weight:   1.225kg
ISBN:  

9780190063504

ISBN 10:   0190063505
Pages:   546
Publication Date:   13 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Iddo Landau: Introduction I. Understanding Meaning in Life 1. Thaddeus Metz: The Concept of a Meaningful Life 2. Jens Johansson and Frans Svensson: Subjectivism and Objectivism about Meaning in Life 3. Gwen Bradford: Achievement and Meaning in Life 4. Galen Strawson: Narrativity and Meaning in Life 5. Guy Kahane: Meaningfulness and Importance 6. Steve Luper: The Meaning of Life and Death II. Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics 7. Paul Thagard: The Relevance of Neuroscience to Meaning in Life 8. P. M. S. Hacker: Can Neuroscience Shed Light on What Constitutes a Meaningful Life? 9. Marya Schechtman: Personal Identity and Meaning in Life 10. Derk Pereboom: Hard Determinism and Meaning in Life 11. Ned Markosian: Meaning in Life and the Nature of Time III. Meaning in Life and Religion 12. John Cottingham: Transcendence and Meaning in Life 13. Erik J. Wielenberg: Atheism and Meaning in Life 14. T. J. Mawson: Theism and Meaning in Life 15. Guy Bennett-Hunter: Mysticism, Ritual, and the Meaning of Life IV. Ethics and Meaning in Life 16. Todd May: Meaning and Morality 17. Sven Nyholm and Stephen M. Campbell: Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life 18. Lucy Allais: Forgiveness and Meaning in Life 19. Rivka Weinberg: Between Sisyphus's Rock and a Warm and Fuzzy Place: Procreative Ethics and the Meaning of Life 20. Katie McShane: Nature, Animals, and Meaning in Life V. Philosophical Psychology and Meaning in Life 21. Antti Kauppinen: The Experience of Meaning 22. Nomy Arpaly: Desire and Meaning in Life: Towards a Theory 23. Alan H. Goldman: Love and Meaning in Life 24. Iddo Landau: Meaning in Life and Phoniness 25. Tony Manela: Gratitude and Meaning in life 26. Roy F. Baumeister Psychological Approaches to Life's Meaning VI. Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects 27. David Benatar: Pessimism, Optimism, and Meaning in Life 28. Michael Cholbi: The Rationality of Suicide and the Meaningfulness of Life 29. Michael S. Brady: Suffering and Meaning in Life 30. Saul Smilansky: Paradoxes and Meaning in Life 31. Doret de Ruyter and Anders Schinkel: Education and Meaning in Life 32. John Danaher: Virtual Reality and the Meaning in Life

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Iddo Landau is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel. He has published extensively on meaning in life, and is the author of Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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