Anti-Meaning and Why It Matters
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8077438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Campbell (0000-0002-2328-4136, corresponding author), Sven Nyholm (0000-0002-3836-5932) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 694-711 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Philosophical Association (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-4477 • E-ISSN: 2053-4485 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/apa.2015.9 |
| OpenAlex | W2231136894 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 19 |
It is widely recognized that lives and activities can be meaningful or meaningless, but few have appreciated that they can also be anti-meaningful . Anti-meaning is the polar opposite of meaning. Our purpose in this essay is to examine the nature and importance of this new and unfamiliar topic. In the first part, we sketch four theories of anti-meaning that correspond to four leading theories of meaning. In the second part, we argue that anti-meaning has significance not only for our attempts to theorize about meaning in life but also for our ability to lead meaningful lives in the modern world
Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Philosophy
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Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
Constraint-Free Meaning, Fearing Death, and Temporal Bias
Importance, Fame, and Death
Meaning and Anti-Meaning in Life and What Happens After We Die
Should We Use Technology to Merge Minds
Anything Can Be Meaningful
Antinatalism, Theism, and Meaning in Life
Meaning and beauty
Remorse and the Ledger Theory of Meaning
Supernaturalist analytic existentialism
The meaningfulness gap in AI ethics
Meaning in Life in AI Ethics—Some Trends and Perspectives
Why Care About Sustainable AI? Some Thoughts From The Debate on Meaning in Life
Moral Monsters, Significance, and Meaning in Life
Meaning in Life as the Comprehensive Value. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Meaningfulness and Morality
Expectable Outcome Deontology – A New Theory of Life’s Meaning
Pessimism and procreation
The Ordinary Meaningful Life
The Meaning of Life, Equality and Eternity
Our lives go better in a world created by God
Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
Perspectives on Climate Change: Science, Economics, Politics, Ethics
Death and the Afterlife
Meaning in Life
Negative Duties, Positive Duties, and the “New Harms”
Meaning in Life and Why It Matters
Value, Respect, and Attachment
Immorality and the Meaning of Life
The Informed Will and the Meaning of Life
Consequentialism about Meaning in Life
An Analysis of Prudential Value
The Meaningful and the Worthwhile
The Good Cause Account of the Meaning of Life
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |