Main Readings

Introductory

Introductory Reading (pdf)

Philosophy Dictionary (pdf)

Viktor Frankl - Man's Search for Meaning

• Frankl Reading (pdf)
• Free audiobook of the Frankl reading (link)
• Here is an overview of the main themes from the book (pdf)
• Reading questions for pages 21 - 40 (pdf)
• Reading questions for pages 40 - 77 (pdf)
• Reading questions for pages 77 - 115 (pdf)

Objectivists

• Susan Wolf reading (pdf) / Wolf handout (pdf)
• William LaneCraig reading (Part 2 only) (pdf) / Craig handout (pdf).
• John Cottingham reading (pdf) / Cottingham handout (pdf)

Subjectivists

• Brooke Alan Trisel reading (pdf) / Trisel handout (pdf)
• Richard Taylor reading (pdf) / Taylor handout (pdf)
• Soren Kierkagaard reading (Ch21 only) (pdf) / Kierkagaard handout (pdf)

Absurdists

• Thomas Nagel reading (book) (pdf) / Nagel handout(pdf)
• Albert Camus reading (section 3 only) (pdf)

Summary Table

• Here is a table summarizing and categorizing each of our main authors (link)

Additional Readings

Textbooks

• Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life (pdf)
• Earl Connee and Theodore Sider intoduction to metaphysics (pdf)

Conciousness

• Frank Jackson reading (pdf)
• Thomas Nagel reading (article) (pdf)

Value Theory

• John Stuart Mill reading (pdf)
• Robert Nozick reading (Ch10 only) (pdf)

Philosophy of Religion

• Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Religion (Ch7 only) (pdf)
• William Lane Craig vs. Sean Carroll (link)