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Reconsidering Meaning in Life
: A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz

Edited by Masahiro Morioka

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):1-278
ISBN 978-4-9908668-0-8

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Contents

Preface
Masahiro Morioka
i

Précis of Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study
Thaddeus Metz
ii-vi

Source and Bearer: Metz on the Pure Part-Life View of Meaning
Hasko von Kriegstein
1-18

Fundamentality and Extradimensional Final Value
David Matheson
19-32

Meaningful and More Meaningful: A Modest Measure
Peter Baumann
33-49

Is Meaning in Life Comparable?: From the Viewpoint of ‘The Heart of Meaning in Life’
Masahiro Morioka
50-65

Agreement and Sympathy: On Metz’s Meaning in Life
Sho Yamaguchi
66-89

Metz’s Quest for the Holy Grail
James Tartaglia
90-111

Meaning without Ego
Christopher Ketcham
112-133

Death and the Meaning of Life: A Critical Study of Metz’s Meaning in Life
Fumitake Yoshizawa
134-149

Metz’ Incoherence Objection: Some Epistemological Considerations
Nicholas Waghorn
150-168

Meaning in Consequences
Mark Wells
169-179

Defending the Purpose Theory of Meaning in Life
Jason Poettcker
180-207

Review of Thaddeus Metz’s Meaning in Life
Minao Kukita
208-214

A Psychological Model to Determine Meaning in Life and Meaning of Life
Yu Urata
215-227

Assessing Lives, Giving Supernaturalism Its Due, and Capturing Naturalism: Reply to 13 Critics of Meaning in Life
Thaddeus Metz
228-278

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