That’s where I disagree with her. I don’t actually think happiness is a meaning of life, though lots of people assume that. Still, happiness is something folks care about, and she gives the best discussion I know, of the nature of happiness and the ways that one can practically accomplish it.
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Paul Thagard
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Waterloo
Canada · b. 1950
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Canadian philosopher and cognitive scientist, founding director of the Cognitive Science Program at Waterloo and author of Mind, The Brain and the Meaning of Life and Brain-Mind.
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