The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 April 2022
- ISBN 9780190063504
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages546 pages
- Size 254x178x44 mm
- Weight 1225 g
- Language English 195
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Short description:
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.
MoreLong description:
A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our relation to what is "greater" than us, and our encounters with suffering and with death, are also discussed (even if in a different manner) in the philosophy of meaning in life. However, only recently has the topic received elaborate discussion within analytic philosophy, and become a thriving field of research.
This volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in their respective subfields on a wide array of subjects in meaning in life research. The chapters are organized into six sections. Section I focuses on ways of conceptualizing life's meaning. It discusses, among other issues, whether meaning in life should be understood objectively or subjectively, the relation between meaningfulness and importance, and whether meaningful lives should be understood narratively. Section II, Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics, presents opposing views on whether neuroscience sheds light on life's meaning, inquires whether determinism must render life meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal identity, and meaning in life. Section III considers life's meaning from both atheist and theist perspectives, and examines the relation between meaningfulness, mysticism and transcendence. Section IV, Ethics and Meaning in Life, examines (among other issues) whether meaningful lives must be moral, how important forgiveness is for meaning, the implications of life's meaningfulness or meaninglessness for procreation ethics, and whether animals can have meaningful lives. Section V compares philosophical and psychological research on life's meaning, explores the experience of meaningfulness, and discusses the relation between meaningfulness and desire, love, and gratitude. Finally, section VI, Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects, elaborates on meaning in life and topics such as suicide, suffering, education, optimism and pessimism.
Many of the chapters deal with topics that have never before been discussed in the literature. This handbook presents ground-breaking work within a rapidly developing field and offers the first published scholarly companion to the philosophical study if meaning in life.
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
