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Edited by Masahiro Morioka and published in the Journal of Philosophy of Life, the volume frames Tartaglia’s positions and engages multiple contributors who respond to his arguments. The contents range from issues such as transcendent reality, consciousness, purposelessness, and personal resonance to debates over freedom, transcendence, finitude, and mediation, culminating in author replies and concluding materials.","NIHILISM AND THE MEANING OF LIFE  \nA Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia  \nEdited by  \nMasahiro Morioka  \nJournal of Philosophy of Life  \nNihilism and the Meaning of Life  \nA Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia  \nEdited by  \nMasahiro Morioka  \nJournal of Philosophy of Life  \nNihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Edited by Masahiro Morioka  \nJuly 31, 2017  \n© Journal of Philosophy of Life 2017  \nPublished by Journal of Philosophy of Life [www.philosophyoflife.org](www.philosophyoflife.org)  \nSchool of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2‐579‐15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa‐shi, Saitama, 3591192 Japan  \nCover design by Masahiro Morioka ISBN 978‐4‐9908668‐2‐2  \nNihilism and the Meaning of Life A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia  \nContents  \nPreface  \nMasahiro Morioka  \nNihilism and the Meaning of Life James Tartaglia  \nTranscendent Reality and the Consciousness Problem Adam Balmer  \nReply to Adam Balmer James Tartaglia  \nIs Consciousness Transcendent?: Comments on James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A  \nSystem of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality Philip Goff  \nReply to Philip Goff James Tartaglia  \nNothing but Nihilism?: The Spirit of Purposelessness in James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life  \nRonald A. Kuipers  \nReply to Ronald A. Kuipers James Tartaglia  \nThe Deep Personal Resonance of Nihilism Tracy Llanera  \ni  \nii‐xxvi  \n1‐15  \n16‐20  \n21‐32  \n33‐49  \n50‐69  \n70‐80  \n81‐91  \nReply to Tracy Llanera James Tartaglia  \nLiving in the Frame: Meaning on Loan from Nihilism Alan Malachowski  \nReply to Alan Malachowski James Tartaglia  \nIn Search of Perspective: Notes on Freedom, Transcendence, and Finitude in Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life  \nBjørn Torgrim Ramberg  \nReply to Bjørn Ramberg James Tartaglia  \nHow Human Life Could be Unintended but Meaningful: A Reply to Tartaglia  \nBrooke Alan Trisel  \nReply to Brooke Alan Trisel James Tartaglia  \nTranscendence  \nJ. J. Valberg  \nReply to J. J. Valberg James Tartaglia  \n‘Life is Meaningless.’Compared to What? Damian Veal  \nReply to Damian Veal James Tartaglia  \n92‐97  \n98‐119  \n120‐135  \n136‐151  \n152‐159  \n160‐179  \n180‐186  \n187‐194  \n195‐207  \n208‐260  \n261‐278  \nTranscendence and Mediation: From Tartaglia to the Free‐Will Debate  \nSho Yamaguchi  \nReply to Sho Yamaguchi James Tartaglia  \nInformation about the Authors  \n279‐304  \n305‐315  \nPreface  \nThis book is a collection of all the papers and essays published in the Special Issue “Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia,” Journal of Philosophy of Life, Vol.7, No.1, 2017, pp.1-315 . Two years ago, in 2015, we published the book Reconsidering Meaning in Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz, and after the publication, one of the contributors to the above book, James Tartaglia, published his own intriguing philosophical book on the meaning of life and its connection with nihilism, entitled Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality (Bloomsbury 2016) . I thought it would be a good idea to have a symposium on his book in the Journal of Philosophy of Life.  \nI invited ten philosophers who have a strong interest in this topic, and edited a special volume dedicated to Tartaglia’s book. After receiving their papers, I asked James to write a reply to each of them, and in July this year we published a special issue in the Journal. You can read all of them, along with the replies by Tartaglia, in this single book.  \nNihilism is an important topic in the field of philosophy of life. Currently, anti-natalism is hotly debated in the context of the meaning of/in life in analytic philosophy. The idea of anti-natalism goes back to ancient Greek literature and philosophy in Europe, and ancient Indian philosophy and religions in Asia. 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