John Cottingham was born in London in 1943 and received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. He is presently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. Continue reading Summary of John Cottingham’s “On the Meaning of Life”
Philip L. Quinn (1940 – 2004) was a philosopher and theologian who earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Quinn was on the faculty of Brown University, and in 1985, he assumed a position as the John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. Continue reading Philip Quinn: The Meaning of Life According to Christianity
Some defend the idea that the meaning of life depends on religion. In the next few days, I will summarize what a few of these thinkers have to say. Continue reading Summary of Louis Pojman’s, “Does Religion Give Meaning to Life?”
Le Penseur in the Musée Rodin in Paris
David Swenson (1876-1940) was a Kierkegaard Scholar who taught at the University of Minnesota in the 1920s and 1930s. Continue reading Summary of David Swenson: “A View of Life”
Antony Garrard Newton Flew (1923 – 2010) was a British philosopher. Belonging to the analytic and evidentialist schools of thought, he was notable for his works on the philosophy of religion and outspoken atheism Continue reading Antony Flew on Tolstoy and Faith
