Thaddeus Metz

Prof Thaddeus Metz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and is often credited for having helped develop life’s meaning as a distinct field in Anglo-American philosophy over the past 20 years. Influential works of his on meaning in life include: ‘The Concept of a Meaningful Life’, American Philosophical Quarterly (2001); ‘Recent Work on the Meaning of Life’, Ethics (2002); and Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study (Oxford University Press, 2013). His most recent notable contribution is God, Soul and the Meaning of Life (Cambridge University Press, 2019). As a fun fact, Prof Metz was once featured as a clue on the American game show Jeopardy: ‘Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry written by Thaddeus Metz, or a movie co-written by John Cleese’ was the answer to the question ‘What is the Meaning of Life?’ (8 December 2016).