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29Practical Identity and MeaninglessnessDissertation, Syracuse University. 2015.While research on meaningfulnesss in life is becoming increasingly popular in analytic philosophy, there is still a dearth of literature on the topic of meaninglessness. This is surprising, given that a better understanding of the nature of meaninglessness may help to illuminate features of meaningfulness previously unobserved or misunderstood. Additionally, the topic of meaninglessness is interesting in its own right - independent of what it can tell us about meaningfulness. In my dissertation,…Read more
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34Making Death Not Quite as Bad for the One Who DiesIn Michael Cholbi & Travis Timmerman (eds.), Exploring the Philosophy of Death and Dying: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 93-100. 2021.One popular rival to Epicureanism is deprivationism, which maintains that a person’s death at a given time is bad for her to the extent that, and because, it prevents her from having a longer life that would have been, on the whole, good. Deprivationism has the surprising implication that we can lessen how bad a person’s death is for them by changing the life they would have had if they lived longer (for example, by convincing a person’s favorite author to stop writing additional books). Some ha…Read more
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11Review of The Free Market Existentialist: Existentialism without Consumerism (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 74 116-117. 2016.
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28Review of David Benatar’s The Human Predicament (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 78 111-112. 2017.
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9Review of Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World (review)The Philosophers' Magazine 83 112-114. 2018.
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15Review of Purpose in the Universe: The Moral and Metaphysical Case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism (review)Utilitas 30 (1): 123-127. 2018.
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44Meaning without FulfillmentSouth African Journal of Philosophy 37 (2): 193-206. 2018.Some philosophers argue that a necessary component of a meaningful life is positive affect. The implication of this type of view is that a meaningful life necessarily feels good. I respond primarily to Susan Wolf's version of this type of view; for Wolf, meaningful lives are necessarily fulfilling lives. In contrast to Wolf, I argue that people do sometimes find parts of their lives to be meaningful when the feeling of fulfillment is absent. I propose an alternative subjective condition that doe…Read more
Kirsten Egerstrom
Whatcom Community College
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Whatcom Community CollegeAssistant Professor
Syracuse University
PhD, 2015
Bellingham, WA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Value Theory |
The Badness of Death |
The Meaning of Life |
The Value of Lives, Misc |