
If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science -- explaining how the amazing private world of consciousness emerges from neuronal activity -- then "the really hard problem," writes Owen Flanagan in this provocative book, is explaining how meaning is possible in the material...

A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem" how to live in a meaningful way--how to live a life that really matters--even as a finite material being living in a material world. If consciousness is...