Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Emily Esfahani Smith discusses the contemporary understanding of meaning, and Massimo Pigliucci provides some historical background.

This is an excerpt from "The Power of Meaning: The Quest for an Existential Roadmap" recorded on October 10, 2017 at The New York Academy of Sciences. For the video of the complete discussion, see: youtu.be/54YFiMrQ_do