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John G. Messerly
John G. Messerly is an American philosopher who taught at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his Ph.D. at St. Louis University where his dissertation was supervised by Richard J. Blackwell. He is currently affiliated with the Centre Leo Apostel (CLEA) for transdisciplinary research Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB). He is best known for his extensive work on the meaning of life.

Selected Publications

 * "The Ascent of Meaning" in The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader In Ethics And Literature (Oxford University Press, 2021)
 * "Death Should Be Optional" (Salon, 2014)
 * "Religion's Smart-People Problem" (Salon, 2014)
 * The Meaning of Life, Religious, Philosophical, Transhumanist, and Scientific Perspectives (Darwin & Hume, 2013)
 * 'Piaget's Biology" in The Cambridge Companion to Piaget, Cambridge University Press, 2009)
 * “I’m Glad the Future Doesn’t Need Us: A Critique of Joy’s Pessimistic Futurism,” ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, 2003
 * “Psychogenesis and the History of Science: Piaget and the Problem of Scientific Change,” The Modern Schoolman, 1996
 * Piaget's Conception of Evolution: Beyond Darwin and Lamarck, (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996)
 * An Introduction to Ethical Theories, (University Press of America, 1995)
 * "The Omission of Unconditional Cooperators: A Critique of Gauthier's Argument for Constrained Maximization" (Philosophical Studies, 1992)

External Link
Messerly at Centre Leo Apostel