The meaning of life: A very short introduction

... business of material survival, rather than to fostering the values of human sharing and solidarity. The political realm was more a question of management and manipulation than of the communal shaping ... life has meaning, and so has that bit, so what meaning do all the various bits add up to?’ But it does not follow from the fact that the parts have meaning tha...

... was a great collision as Africa drove north into North America and Europe, causing earthquakes and volcanoes, and raising a chain of mountains from the Appalachians, across Ireland and Germany, ... animals that are otherwise entirely unknown, and may never be known other than by these intriguing exuviae. The Cambrian Explosion The Small Shelly Fauna of the Early Cambrian was...

... entities, on the 't grounds that it can explain a large range of observational data. An anti-realist philosopher of science comes along, and argues that the data can in fact be accounted for by various ... theory choice in addition to compatibility with the observational data, the problem of under determination disappears. Not all the possible explanations of our obse...