Part IX: The Meaning of Life

Further reading for The Meaning of Life

Some useful textbooks

Belshaw, C. (2005). 10 Good Questions about Life and Death. Blackwell. [Composed for the undergraduate, this text addresses a variety of questions about meaning.]
Mawson, T. (2012). ‘Recent Work on the Meaning of Life and Philosophy of Religion’. Philosophy Compass 8: 1138–46. [A useful overview of the latest professional philosophical literature on God and the meaning of life.]
Thomson, G. (2003). On the Meaning of Life. Wadsworth. [An undergraduate textbook aimed at philosophy students, covering issues about the meaning of life and essentialness of spirituality.]

Some useful readers

Heinegg, P. (ed.) (2003). Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life. Prometheus Books. [Gives over 50 summaries of perspectives on how death impacts on the meaning of life.]
Klemke, E. D. and Cahn, S. M. (eds) (2007).The Meaning of Life: A Reader. Oxford University Press. [A broad selection of some philosophical writings on the question of the meaning of life.]