Michael Hauskeller is a German-British philosopher and Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on a wide range of subjects. His books include Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016), The Meaning of Life and Death (2019), The Things that Really Matter. Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (2022), and Meaning in Life: A Subjectivist Account (2025).Iddo Landau is the author of the Foreword and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel.

“If you want to know what philosophers have been saying recently about what makes life meaningful, but don’t want to trawl though acres of dull academic prose in obscure publications, then this is the book for you. Hauskeller has successfully adapted philosophy’s most influential and engaging format, the Platonic dialogue, to take you on a journey around Liverpool with a Scouse version of Socrates, as he tries to get answers out of a motley crew that includes a nihilist, a transhumanist, a vicar and an antitheist.”James Tartaglia, Professor of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

• Introduction. Prologue 1. First Dialogue 2. Second Dialogue 3. Third Dialogue 4. Fourth Dialogue 5. Fifth Dialogue 6. Sixth Dialogue 7. Seventh Dialogue. Further Reading.

Michael Hauskeller is a German-British philosopher and Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on a wide range of subjects. His books include Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016), The Meaning of Life and Death (2019), The Things that Really Matter. Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (2022), and Meaning in Life: A Subjectivist Account (2025).Iddo Landau is the author of the Foreword and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel.

“If you want to know what philosophers have been saying recently about what makes life meaningful, but don’t want to trawl though acres of dull academic prose in obscure publications, then this is the book for you. Hauskeller has successfully adapted philosophy’s most influential and engaging format, the Platonic dialogue, to take you on a journey around Liverpool with a Scouse version of Socrates, as he tries to get answers out of a motley crew that includes a nihilist, a transhumanist, a vicar and an antitheist.”James Tartaglia, Professor of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

• Introduction. Prologue 1. First Dialogue 2. Second Dialogue 3. Third Dialogue 4. Fourth Dialogue 5. Fifth Dialogue 6. Sixth Dialogue 7. Seventh Dialogue. Further Reading.

Michael Hauskeller is a German-British philosopher and Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has published on a wide range of subjects. His books include Mythologies of Transhumanism (2016), The Meaning of Life and Death (2019), The Things that Really Matter. Philosophical Conversations on the Cornerstones of Life (2022), and Meaning in Life: A Subjectivist Account (2025).Iddo Landau is the author of the Foreword and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Haifa, Israel.

“If you want to know what philosophers have been saying recently about what makes life meaningful, but don’t want to trawl though acres of dull academic prose in obscure publications, then this is the book for you. Hauskeller has successfully adapted philosophy’s most influential and engaging format, the Platonic dialogue, to take you on a journey around Liverpool with a Scouse version of Socrates, as he tries to get answers out of a motley crew that includes a nihilist, a transhumanist, a vicar and an antitheist.”James Tartaglia, Professor of Philosophy at the Slovak Academy of Sciences.

• Introduction. Prologue 1. First Dialogue 2. Second Dialogue 3. Third Dialogue 4. Fourth Dialogue 5. Fifth Dialogue 6. Sixth Dialogue 7. Seventh Dialogue. Further Reading.