Dr Owen Flanagan's presentation for the November 3, 2009, Southeastern Socratic meeting entitled God, Death and the Meaning of Life. For more information visit SoutheasternSocratic.com.
1. Atheism & Meaning The Really Hard Problem November 3, 2009 Owen Flanagan James B. Duke Professor of Philosophy Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Duke University
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9. The Really Hard Problem How -- given that (assuming that) we are natural beings living in a material world and given that consciousness is a natural phenomenon -- does human life mean anything? What significance, if any, does living our kind of conscious life have?