This handbook presents ground-breaking work, offering the first published scholarly companion to the philosophical study of meaning in life. This volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in their respective sub-fields on a wide array of subjects in meaning in life research. The chapters of this volume are arranged in six parts, according to their interconnecting themes. The volume 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…mehr
This handbook presents ground-breaking work, offering the first published scholarly companion to the philosophical study of meaning in life. This volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in their respective sub-fields on a wide array of subjects in meaning in life research. The chapters of this volume are arranged in six parts, according to their interconnecting themes. The volume 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. Many of the chapters deal with topics that have up to now never been discussed in the literature.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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).
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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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