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Philosophical Perspectives
on Meaning & Purpose
Ayer, A.J. (1990). The meaning of life.
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Becker, G. (1997). Disrupted lives: how
people create meaning in a chaotic world. Berkeley, CA: University
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Britton, K. (1969). Philosophy and the
meaning of life. London, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Brown, R.A. (Ed.) (1986). The essential
Reinhold Niebuhr : selected essays and addresses. New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press.
Burke, C. & Cummins, R. (1970). Searching
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M.R. (1961). The meaning of human history. LaSalle, Ill.:
Open Court.
Dougherty, F. (Ed.) (1982). Conference
International Ecumenical Congress on the Meaning of Human
Suffering. New York: Human Sciences Press.
Fodor, J.A. (1987). Psychosemantics: the
problem of meaning in the philosophy of mind. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
Hallett, G. (1967). Wittgenstein's definition
of meaning as use. New York: Fordham University Press. Harrison,
B. (1972). Meaning and structure: an essay in the philosophy
of language. New York: Harper & Row.
Hermans, H.J.M. & Kempen, H.J.G. (1993).
The dialogical self: meaning as movement. San Diego: Academic
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in human experience. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
Hocking, W.E. (1963). The meaning of God
in human experience: a philosophic study of religion. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
Kenyon, G. (2000). Philosophical foundations
of existential meaning. In G.T. Reker and K. Chamberlain (Eds.),
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MacKay, D. M. (1982). Science and the
quest for meaning. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans. Meyer, M. (1983).
Meaning and reading: a philosophical essay on language and
literature. Amsterdam, PA: PhiladelphiaJ. Benjamins.
Ogden, C.K. & Richards, I.A. (1962). The
meaning of meaning: a study of the influence of language upon
thought and of the science of symbolism. New York: Harcourt,
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Phenix, P.H. (1964). Realms of meaning:
a philosophy of the curriculum for general education. New
York: McGraw-Hill.
Reker, G.T. (2002). Provisional Manual
of the Spiritual Meaning Index (SMI-24). Peterborough,
ON: Student Psycholgists Press.
Ricoeur, P. (1977). The rule of metaphor:
Multi-disciplinary studies of the creation of meaning in language.Translated
by Robert Czerny; with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, c1977.
Ruelle, D. (1991). Chance and chaos. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton University Press.
Russell, B. (1940). An inquiry into meaning
& truth. New York: Norton.
Sauter, G. (1995). The question of meaning:
a theological and philosophical orientation. Translated and
edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
Searle, J.R. (1971). The Philosophy of
language. London, Oxford University Press.
Thompson, I.E. (1981). Being and meaning
: Paul Tillich's theory of meaning, truth and logic. Edinburgh,
UK: Edinburgh University Press, c1981.
Wertheimer, R. (1972). The significance
of sense: meaning, modality, and morality. Ithaca , N.Y.:
Cornell University Press. Zemach, E.M. (1992). The reality
of meaning & the meaning of "reality". Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England.
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