?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+modern+nihilism&rft.creator=Krellenstein%2C+Dr.+Marc&rft.subject=Evolutionary+Psychology&rft.subject=Ethics&rft.subject=Metaphysics&rft.description=Presents+the+author's+evolving+views+of+the+best+current+positions+on+certain+core+philosophical+and+psychological+problems.+These+positions+together+suggest+a+skeptical+or+nihilist+perspective+modified+by+evolutionary+psychology+and+contemporary+philosophy+that+embraces+our+desire+to+live+as+best+we+can+and+the+relative+and+psychological+reality+of+values%2C+free+will+and+other+phenomena+while+recognizing+limitations+on+their+foundations+and+our+understanding.+The+below+makes+no+claims+to+originality+for+most+of+the+ideas+expressed%2C+drawing+on+a+range+of+mostly+unreferenced+texts+that+will+be+familiar+to+philosophers+and+psychologists+working+in+this+area.&rft.date=2009-03&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8795%2F3%2Fa-modern-nihilism.html&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8795%2F1%2Fpoint-of-view-a-modern-nihilism-30-mar-06.html&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8795%2F4%2Fa-modern-nihilism-31-dec-2012.html&rft.identifier=++Krellenstein%2C+Dr.+Marc++(2009)+A+modern+nihilism.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F8795%2F