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  • A Naturalist's Defence of Meaning in Religious Pursuits

  • David Matheson
  • Journal:
    Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , First View
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    16 October 2024, pp. 1-20
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  • Objectivist naturalists about life's meaning regard it as implicating no world but the natural one, and yet as deriving from more than just subjective attitudes or interests. Such naturalists must obviously deny prominent religious conceptions of meaning. But must they further deny that it can be found in religious pursuits? In this article, I defend a negative answer by arguing that, contrary to a prima facie plausible consideration in support of a positive answer, and by many objectivist naturalists’ own lights, the meaning of life can be found in pursuits predicated on false belief.