Is Meaning in Life Constituted by Value or Intelligibility?

Philosophical Papers 50 (1-2):211-234 (2021)
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Several authors have recently argued that intelligibility, rather than value, constitutes life’s meaning. In this paper I criticize the intelligibility view by offering examples of cases in which i...

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