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Collections

• Benatar, D. (ed.), 2016, Life, Death & Meaning, 3^rd Ed., Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (Scholar)
• Caruso, G. and Flanagan, O. (eds.), 2018, Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in an Age of Neuroscience, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Cottingham, J. (ed.), 2007, Western Philosophy: An Anthology, 2^nd Ed., Oxford: Blackwell: pt. 12. (Scholar)
• Garcia, R. and King, N. (eds.), 2009, Is Goodness Without God Good Enough? Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Klemke, E. D. and Cahn, S. M. (eds.), 2018, The Meaning of Life: A Reader, 4^th Ed., New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kolodny, N. (ed.), 2013, Death and the Afterlife, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kraay, K. (ed.), 2018, Does God Matter? Essays on the Axiological Consequences of Theism, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Leach, S. and Tartaglia, J. (eds.), 2018, The Meaning of Life and the Great Philosophers, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Morioka, M. (ed.), 2015, Reconsidering Meaning in Life, Saitama: Waseda University. (Scholar)
• ––– (ed.), 2017, Nihilism and the Meaning of Life, Saitama: Waseda University. (Scholar)
• Seachris, J. (ed.), 2013, Exploring the Meaning of Life: An Anthology and Guide, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Seachris, J. and Goetz, S. (eds.), 2016, God and Meaning: New Essays, New York: Bloombsury Academic. (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)
• Fischer, J. M., 2019, Death, Immortality, and Meaning in Life, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Ford, D., 2007, The Search for Meaning: A Short History, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Hauskeller, M., 2020, The Meaning of Life and Death: Ten Classic Thinkers on the Ultimate Question, London: Bloomsbury Academic. (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)
• Ruse, M., 2019, A Meaning to Life, New York: Oxford University Press. (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)