This article first recounts the history of the truth-conditional conception of meaning from Frege to the present day, emphasizing both points that are neglected in receidev accounts of this history ...

Feeling that your life has meaning is fundamental to the experience of being human, and people who feel this way tend to be healthier and happier. Given the importance that most people place on ...

People who think their life has meaning and purpose die later than people with a lower sense of personal wellbeing, according to a new study. About 9,000 people over age 65 were followed for eight and ...

Sometimes people can get caught up in the pursuit of happiness. They are on a mission to seek experiences that make them feel better and brighten up their mood. I don’t have any quarrels with ...

Campbell Martin, a volunteer working for the Food Depot, hands out groceries at the Santa Fe Place Mall in Santa Fe, NM, last month. (Ramsay de Give for The Washington Post) Perspective by Marta ...

Whether or not you’re aware of it, the need for your life to have meaning is at the roots of the motivation that makes you uniquely human. Positive psychologists, beginning with the likes of Abraham ...

A study of 9,050 English people with an average age of 65 found that the people with the greatest well-being were 30 percent less likely to die during the average eight and a half year follow-up ...

Let’s be honest—life can feel like a never-ending improv skit written by an over-caffeinated playwright. You plan, you prepare, you create five-year goals, and then… your Wi-Fi cuts out during a job ...

Lisa A Williams receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest. Yet it is also ...

This paper discusses certain problems arising within the treatment of the senses of functions in Alonzo Church's Logic of Sense and Denotation. Church understands such senses themselves to be ...