#1246 Rivka Weinberg: Does Life Have Meaning?
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by a return guest, Dr. Rivka Weinberg. She's a professor of philosophy at Scripps College in Claremont, California. And today we're going to talk about her latest book, The Meaning of It All, Ultimate Meaning, Everyday Meaning, Cosmic Meaning, Death, and Time.
So, Dr. Weinberg, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me back.
Okay, so first of all, I would like to start by asking you this. So what is the premise of your book? And I would also be interesting, uh be interested to know whether you wrote the book. I mean just because it's a topic that you're interested in or that or because you had a particular uh timing in mind that you thought that uh such a topic in this particular time period in the particular context we're living in would be relevant? I mean, what motivated you to write it?
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