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Purpose in the Universe with Tim Mulgan – Episode 16

Purpose in the Universe with Tim Mulgan – Episode 16

FromStoicism On Fire


Purpose in the Universe with Tim Mulgan – Episode 16

FromStoicism On Fire

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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/
Released:
Jul 1, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (57)

The practice of Stoicism as a philosophical way of life and rational form of spirituality