Can Only Human Lives Be Meaningful?

References

• Barthakur, Jitendra Kumar (2005), ‘Gravitation and Universal Rhythm’, http://www.general-theory-of-time.org/essay_gravitation_and_universal_rhythm.php (accessed November 8, 2017).
   Google Scholar
• Blackburn, Simon (2001), Being Good, New York: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Bradford, Gwen (2015), ‘Achievement and the Meaning of Life’, http://bradford.rice.edu/research/ (accessed February 23, 2017).
   Google Scholar
• Bramble, B, (2015), ‘Consequentialism about Meaning in Life’, Utilitas, Vol. 27, No. 4, pp. 445–459.
   Google Scholar
• Brogaard, B. and Smith, B. (2005), ‘On Luck, Responsibility, and the Meaning of Life’, Philosophical Papers, Vol. 34: pp. 443–458. doi: 10.1080/05568640509485167
   Google Scholar
• Chappell, Timothy (2007) ‘Infinity Goes Up on Trial: Must Immortality be Meaningless?’, European Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 17, pp. 30-44.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evers, Daan and Gerlinde Emma van Smeden (2016), ‘Meaning in Life: In Defense of the Hybrid View’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 54, Issue 3, pp. 355–371. doi: 10.1111/sjp.12179
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fischer, John Martin (1993), ‘Recent Work on Death and the Meaning of Life’, Philosophical Books, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 65–75. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0149.1993.tb02833.x
   Google Scholar
• Frankl, Victor E. (1964 [1946]), Man’s Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy, translated by Ilse Lasch, London: Hodder and Stoughton.
   Google Scholar
• Kauppinen, Antti (2012), ‘Meaningfulness and Time’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 82, pp. 345–377. doi: 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00490.x
   Google Scholar
• Kauppinen, Antti (2013), ‘Meaning and Happiness’, Philosophical Topics, Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 161–185. doi: 10.5840/philtopics20134118
   Google Scholar
• Kolers, Avery (2016), ‘The Grasshopper’s Error: Or, On How Life is a Game’, Dialogue, Vol. 54, No. 4, pp. 1–20.
   Google Scholar
• Landau, Iddo (2014) ‘Standards, Perspectives, and the Meaning of Life: A Reply to Seachris’, Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 17, pp. 457–468. doi: 10.1007/s10677-013-9440-5
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Levy, N. (2005), ‘Downshifting and Meaning in Life’, Ratio, Vol. 18, pp. 176–189. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9329.2005.00282.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Luper, Steven (2014), ‘Life’s Meaning’, in Steven Luper, ed., Life and Death, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 198–212.
   Google Scholar
• Mawson, Timothy J. (2010), ‘Sources of Dissatisfaction with Answers to the Question of the Meaning of Life’, European Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 19–41.
   Google Scholar
• ‘Meaningful Objects: Museums in the Academy’ (2010), https://www.lsa.umich.edu/museumstheme/welcome/index.asp (accessed November 8, 2017).
   Google Scholar
• Metz, T. (2012), ‘The Meaningful and the Worthwhile: Clarifying the Relationships’, The Philosophical Forum, Vol. 43, pp. 435–448. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2012.00436.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Metz, T. (2013), Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Milburn, Josh (2017), ‘Robert Nozick on Nonhuman Animals: Rights, Value and the Meaning of Life’, in Andrew Woodhall and Gabriel Garmendia da Trindade, eds, Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal Issues, pp. 97–120, London: Palgrave MacMillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-54549-3_5
   Google Scholar
• Nozick, Robert (2001), Philosophical Explanations, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
   Google Scholar
• O’Callaghan, Jonathan (2016), ‘NASA Is Not Changing The Signs Of The Zodiac (But Your Horoscope Is Still Meaningless)’, http://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-is-not-changing-the-signs-of-the-zodiac-but-your-horoscope-is-still-meaningless (accessed November 8, 2017).
   Google Scholar
• Purves, Duncan, and Nicolas Delon (2017), ‘Meaning in the Lives of Humans and Other Animals’, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 175, No. 2, pp. 1–22.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seachris, Joshua (2009), ‘The Meaning of Life as Narrative: A New Proposal for Interpreting Philosophy’s “Primary” Question’, Philo, Vol. 12. No. 1, pp. 5–23.
   Google Scholar
• Seachris, Joshua (2011), ‘Death, Futility, and the Proleptic Power of Narrative Ending’, Religious Studies, Vol. 47, pp. 141–163. doi: 10.1017/S0034412510000223
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smuts, Aaron (2012), ‘“It’s a Wonderful Life”: Pottersville and the Meaning of Life’, Film and Philosophy, Vol. 16, pp. 15–33.
   Google Scholar
• Smuts, Aaron (2013), ‘The Good Cause Account of the Meaning of Life’, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 51, No. 4, pp. 536–562. doi: 10.1111/sjp.12044
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Taylor, Richard (2004), ‘The Meaning of Life’, in David Benatar, ed., Life Death and Meaning, Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland, pp. 19–28.
   Google Scholar
• Vohanka, Vlastimil and Vohankova, Pavla (2011), ‘On Nihilism Driven by the Magnitude of the Universe’, Czech and Slovak Journal of Humanities, (Philosophica), Vol. 1, pp. 60–73.
   Google Scholar
• Wolf, Susan, (2010), Meaning in Life and Why it Matters, Princeton: Princeton University Press.
   Google Scholar