Josh Glasgow, Professor of Philosophy, Publishes New Book: "The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance"
Professor Josh Glasgow has a new book out with Oxford University Press. The Significance Impulse: On the Unimportance of Our Cosmic Unimportance, addresses the widespread desire to be significant in far-reaching ways. The book argues that we are fated to be insignificant on the cosmic scale, even if there are more modest ways in which we do have real value. At the same time, our lack of cosmic significance is heralded as good news, as being important is vastly overrated in terms of our personal interests: being especially significant would advance neither your well-being nor the meaning you take from life. In fact, being more significant would have substantial downsides for us, especially by subjecting us to greater pressure to make good choices--the tyranny of value.
This is Glasgow’s fourth book with Oxford and his second on value and the human condition.