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Purpose in the Universe with Tim Mulgan – Episode 16
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Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
From the back cover of professor Tim Mulgan's book:
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent to God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism.
Those who are interested in exploring professor Tim Mulgan's concept of Purpose in the Universe further may find the links below helpful. His book is published by Oxford University Press.
A paper titled Beyond Theism and Atheism: Axiarchism and Ananthropocentric Purposivism by Tim Mulgan:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phc3.12420
Book Review in University of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/purpose-in-the-universe-the-moral-and-metaphysical-case-for-ananthropocentric-purposivism/
A podcast episode produced by The Forum that includes Tim Mulgan and others discussing Purpose in the Universe:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/does-the-universe-have-a-purpose/
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent to God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism.
Those who are interested in exploring professor Tim Mulgan's concept of Purpose in the Universe further may find the links below helpful. His book is published by Oxford University Press.
A paper titled Beyond Theism and Atheism: Axiarchism and Ananthropocentric Purposivism by Tim Mulgan:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/phc3.12420
Book Review in University of Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews:
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/purpose-in-the-universe-the-moral-and-metaphysical-case-for-ananthropocentric-purposivism/
A podcast episode produced by The Forum that includes Tim Mulgan and others discussing Purpose in the Universe:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/does-the-universe-have-a-purpose/
Released:
Jul 1, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (57)
Logos and Providence and God, OH MY! – Episode 2: A virtuous and good person, keeping in mind who he is, and where he has come from, and by whom he was created, concentrates on one thing alone: how he may fill his post in a disciplined manner, remaining obedient to God. (Discourses 3.24.95) - by Stoicism On Fire