The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life by Iddo Landau (English) Hardcover Book

Description: The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life by Iddo Landau 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 topicreceived elaborate discussion within analytic philosophy, and become a thriving field of research. This volume presents thirty-two chapters by leading authorities in theirrespective 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 lifes 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 whetherneuroscience sheds light on lifes meaning, inquires whether determinism must render life meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal identity, and meaning in life. Section IIIconsiders lifes 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 lifes meaningfulness or meaninglessness for procreation ethics, and whether animals can have meaningful lives. Section V compares philosophical and psychological research onlifes meaning, explores the experience of meaningfulness, and discusses the relation between meaningfulness and desire, love, and gratitude. Finally, section VI, Living Meaningfully: Challenges andProspects, 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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). Table of Contents Iddo Landau: IntroductionI. Understanding Meaning in Life1. Thaddeus Metz: The Concept of a Meaningful Life2. Jens Johansson and Frans Svensson: Subjectivism and Objectivism about Meaning in Life3. Gwen Bradford: Achievement and Meaning in Life4. Galen Strawson: Narrativity and Meaning in Life5. Guy Kahane: Meaningfulness and Importance6. Steve Luper: The Meaning of Life and DeathII. Meaning in Life, Science, and Metaphysics7. Paul Thagard: The Relevance of Neuroscience to Meaning in Life8. P. M. S. Hacker: Can Neuroscience Shed Light on What Constitutes a Meaningful Life?9. Marya Schechtman: Personal Identity and Meaning in Life10. Derk Pereboom: Hard Determinism and Meaning in Life11. Ned Markosian: Meaning in Life and the Nature of TimeIII. Meaning in Life and Religion12. John Cottingham: Transcendence and Meaning in Life13. Erik J. Wielenberg: Atheism and Meaning in Life14. T. J. Mawson: Theism and Meaning in Life15. Guy Bennett-Hunter: Mysticism, Ritual, and the Meaning of LifeIV. Ethics and Meaning in Life16. Todd May: Meaning and Morality17. Sven Nyholm and Stephen M. Campbell: Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life18. Lucy Allais: Forgiveness and Meaning in Life19. Rivka Weinberg: Between Sisyphuss Rock and a Warm and Fuzzy Place: Procreative Ethics and the Meaning of Life20. Katie McShane: Nature, Animals, and Meaning in LifeV. Philosophical Psychology and Meaning in Life21. Antti Kauppinen: The Experience of Meaning22. Nomy Arpaly: Desire and Meaning in Life: Towards a Theory23. Alan H. Goldman: Love and Meaning in Life24. Iddo Landau: Meaning in Life and Phoniness25. Tony Manela: Gratitude and Meaning in life26. Roy F. Baumeister Psychological Approaches to Lifes MeaningVI. Living Meaningfully: Challenges and Prospects27. David Benatar: Pessimism, Optimism, and Meaning in Life28. Michael Cholbi: The Rationality of Suicide and the Meaningfulness of Life29. Michael S. Brady: Suffering and Meaning in Life30. Saul Smilansky: Paradoxes and Meaning in Life31. Doret de Ruyter and Anders Schinkel: Education and Meaning in Life32. John Danaher: Virtual Reality and the Meaning in Life Long 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 topicreceived 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 lifes 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 lifes meaning, inquires whether determinism must render life meaningless, and explores the relation between time, personal identity, and meaning in life. Section III considers lifes meaning from bothatheist 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 lifes meaningfulness or meaninglessness for procreation ethics, and whether animals can have meaningful lives. Section V compares philosophical and psychological research on lifes meaning, explores the experienceof 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. Feature Selling point: Presents the first handbook and scholarly companion to meaning in lifeSelling point: Discusses a very wide array of topics in meaning in life research, some of which have never been discussed in the philosophical literature until this pointSelling point: All essays break new ground and are written by leading scholars and authorities in their respective fieldsSelling point: Explores, among numerous other topics, meaning in life and achievement, forgiveness, gratitude, death, suicide, suffering, religion, psychology, and neuroscience Details ISBN0190063505 Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0190063505 ISBN-13 9780190063504 Format Hardcover Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Series Oxford Handbooks Publication Date 2022-04-13 NZ Release Date 2022-04-13 US Release Date 2022-04-13 UK Release Date 2022-04-13 Author Iddo Landau Illustrator Zelma Firdauzia Edited by Iddo Landau Birth 1946 Affiliation Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Otago Position Lecturer in Political Theory Qualifications MD DEWEY 128 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2022-09-01 Pages 546 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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