Linked bibliography for the SEP article "The Meaning of Life" by Thaddeus Metz

Linked bibliography for the SEP article "The Meaning of Life" by Thaddeus Metz

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Works Cited

Affolter, J., 2007, “Human Nature as God's Purpose”, Religious Studies, 43: 443–55. (Scholar)
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Fischer, J. M., 1994, “Why Immortality is Not So Bad”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2: 257–70. (Scholar)
–––, 2005, “Free Will, Death, and Immortality: The Role of Narrative”, Philosophical Papers, 34: 379–403. (Scholar)
Flanagan, O., 1996, Self-Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Frankfurt, H., 1982, “The Importance of What We Care About”, Synthese, 53: 257–72. (Scholar)
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–––, 2004, The Reasons of Love, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
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Goetz, S., 2012, The Purpose of Life: A Theistic Perspective, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
Gordon, J., 1983, “Is the Existence of God Relevant to the Meaning of Life?” The Modern Schoolman, 60: 227–46. (Scholar)
Griffin, J., 1981, “On Life's Being Valuable”, Dialectics and Humanism, 8: 51–62. (Scholar)
Haber, J., 1997, “Contingency and the Meaning of Life”, Philosophical Writings, 5: 32–44. (Scholar)
Hanfling, O., 1987, The Quest for Meaning, New York: Basil Blackwell Inc. (Scholar)
Hare, R. M., 1957, “Nothing Matters”, repr. in Applications of Moral Philosophy, London: Macmillan, 1972: 32–47. (Scholar)
Hartshorne, C., 1984, “God and the Meaning of Life”, in Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Volume 6: On Nature, L. Rouner (ed.), Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press: 154–68. (Scholar)
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Hepburn, R., 1965, “Questions About the Meaning of Life”, repr. in The Meaning of Life, 2^nd Ed., E. D. Klemke (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 261–76. (Scholar)
Hooker, B., 2008, “The Meaning of Life: Subjectivism, Objectivism, and Divine Support”, in The Moral Life: Essays in Honour of John Cottingham, N. Athanassoulis and S. Vice (eds.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 184–200. (Scholar)
Hurka, T., 1993, Perfectionism, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
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James, L., 2005, “Achievement and the Meaningfulness of Life”, Philosophical Papers, 34: 429–42. (Scholar)
–––, 2009, “Shape and the Meaningfulness of Life”, in Philosophy and Happiness, L. Bortolotti (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 54–67. (Scholar)
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Kass, L., 2001, “L'Chaim and Its Limits: Why not Immortality?”, First Things, 113: 17–24. (Scholar)
Kauppinen, A., 2012, “Meaningfulness and Time”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 82: 345–77. (Scholar)
Kekes, J., 1986, “The Informed Will and the Meaning of Life”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 47: 75–90. (Scholar)
–––, 2000, “The Meaning of Life”, in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Volume 24; Life and Death: Metaphysics and Ethics, P. French and H. Wettstein (eds.), Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers: 17–34. (Scholar)
Klemke, E. D., 1981, “Living Without Appeal”, in The Meaning of Life, E. D. Klemke (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Landau, I., 2011, “Immorality and the Meaning of Life”, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 45: 309–17. (Scholar)
Lenman, J., 1995, “Immortality: A Letter”, Cogito, 9: 164–69. (Scholar)
Levine, M., 1987, “What Does Death Have to Do with the Meaning of Life?” Religious Studies, 23: 457–65. (Scholar)
Levinson, J., 2004, “Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life”, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 62: 319–29. (Scholar)
Levy, N., 2005, “Downshifting and Meaning in Life”, Ratio, 18: 176–89. (Scholar)
Margolis, J., 1990, “Moral Realism and the Meaning of Life”, The Philosophical Forum, 22: 19–48. (Scholar)
Markus, A., 2003, “Assessing Views of Life, A Subjective Affair?”, Religious Studies, 39: 125–43. (Scholar)
Martin, R., 1993, “A Fast Car and a Good Woman”, in The Experience of Philosophy, 2^nd Ed., D. Kolak and R. Martin (eds.), Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing Company: 589–95. (Scholar)
Mawson, T., 2010, “Sources of Dissatisfaction with Answers to the Question of the Meaning of Life”, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2: 19–41. (Scholar)
Metz, T., 2012, “The Meaningful and the Worthwhile: Clarifying the Relationships”, The Philosophical Forum, 43: 435–48. (Scholar)
–––, 2013, Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Mintoff, J., 2008, “Transcending Absurdity”, Ratio, 21: 64–84. (Scholar)
Moreland, J. P., 1987, Scaling the Secular City: A Defense of Christianity, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House. (Scholar)
Morris, T., 1992, Making Sense of It All: Pascal and the Meaning of Life, Grand Rapids: Willliam B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. (Scholar)
Munitz, M., 1986, Cosmic Understanding, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
Murphy, J., 1982, Evolution, Morality, and the Meaning of Life, Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
Nagel, T., 1970, “The Absurd”, Journal of Philosophy, 68: 716–27. (Scholar)
–––, 1986, The View from Nowhere, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Nielsen, K., 1964, “Linguistic Philosophy and ‘The Meaning of Life’”, rev. ed. in The Meaning of Life, E. D. Klemke (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1981: 177–204. (Scholar)
Nozick, R., 1974, Anarchy, State and Utopia, New York: Basic Books. (Scholar)
–––, 1981, Philosophical Explanations, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
–––, 1989, The Examined Life, New York: Simon & Schuster. (Scholar)
Nussbaum, M., 1989, “Mortal Immortals: Lucretius on Death and the Voice of Nature”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 50: 303–51. (Scholar)
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Pogge, T., 1997, “Kant on Ends and the Meaning of Life”, in Reclaiming the History of Ethics: Essays for John Rawls, A. Reath et al. (eds.), New York: Cambridge University Press: 361–87. (Scholar)
Quigley, M. and Harris, J., 2009, “Immortal Happiness”, in Philosophy and Happiness, L. Bortolotti (ed.), New York: Palgrave Macmillan: 68–81. (Scholar)
Quinn, P., 2000, “How Christianity Secures Life's Meanings”, in The Meaning of Life in the World Religions, J. Runzo and N. Martin (eds.), Oxford: Oneworld Publications: 53–68. (Scholar)
Railton, P., 1984, “Alienation, Consequentialism, and the Demands of Morality”, repr. in Consequentialism and Its Critics, S. Scheffler (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 1988: 93–133. (Scholar)
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Schmidtz, D., 2001, “The Meanings of Life”, in Boston University Studies in Philosophy and Religion, Volume 22; If I Should Die: Life, Death, and Immortality, L. Rouner (ed.), Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press: 170–88. (Scholar)
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Singer, I., 1996, Meaning in Life, Volume 1: The Creation of Value, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (Scholar)
Singer, P., 1993, Practical Ethics, 2^nd Ed., New York: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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Smith, Q., 1997, Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
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Swenson, D., 1949, “The Dignity of Human Life”, repr. in The Meaning of Life, 2^nd Ed., E. D. Klemke (ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, 2000: 21–30. (Scholar)
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Wiggins, D., 1988, “Truth, Invention, and the Meaning of Life”, rev. ed. in Essays on Moral Realism, G. Sayre-McCord (ed.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 127-65. (Scholar)
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Wong, W., 2008, “Meaningfulness and Identities”, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 11: 123–48. (Scholar)

Collections

Benatar, D. (ed.), 2004, Life, Death & Meaning, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (Scholar)
Cottingham, J. (ed.), 2007, Western Philosophy: An Anthology, Oxford: Blackwell: pt. 12. (Scholar)
Hanfling, O. (ed.), 1987, Life and Meaning: A Reader, Cambridge: Basic Blackwell Inc. (Scholar)
Klemke, E. D. and Cahn, S. M. (eds.), 2007, The Meaning of Life: A Reader, 3^rd Ed., New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Metz, T. (ed.), 2005, Special Issue: Meaning in Life, Philosophical Papers, 34: 330–463. (Scholar)
Runzo, J. and Martin, N. (eds.), 2000, The Meaning of Life in the World Religions, Oxford: Oneworld Publications. (Scholar)
Sanders, S. and Cheney, D. (eds.), 1980, The Meaning of Life: Questions, Answers, and Analysis, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Scholar)
Seachris, J. (ed.), 2012, Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
Smith, Q. (ed.), 2010, Special Issue: The Meaning of Life, The Monist, 93: 3–165. (Scholar)
Westphal, J. and Levenson, C. A. (eds.), 1993, Life and Death, Indianapolis: Hackett. (Scholar)

Books for the General Reader

Baggini, J., 2004, What's It All About?: Philosophy and the Meaning of Life, London: Granta Books. (Scholar)
Belliotti, R., 2001, What Is the Meaning of Life?, Amsterdam: Rodopi. (Scholar)
Belshaw, C., 2005, 10 Good Questions about Life and Death, Malden, MA: Blackwell. (Scholar)
Cottingham, J., 2003, On the Meaning of Life, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Eagleton, T., 2007, The Meaning of Life: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
Ford, D., 2007, The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
Martin, M., 2002, Atheism, Morality, and Meaning, Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. (Scholar)
Messerly, J., 2012, The Meaning of Life: Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Approaches, Seattle: Darwin and Hume Publishers. (Scholar)
Thomson, G., 2003, On the Meaning of Life, South Melbourne: Wadsworth. (Scholar)
Young, J., 2003, The Death of God and the Meaning of Life, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)

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