Final chapter, writer highlighted that problems about reality, knowledge, morality, and meaning are all connected, not by transcendental truths, but by the history and nature of human beings in a physical universe. The resulting naturalistic system of evidence-based philosophy is highly coherent both with the available scientific information and with reasonable aspirations for human life. He also has displayed a strong fit between coherentism as a theory of knowledge and constructive realism as a theory of what exists. Both support the multidimensional theory of the meaning of life based on love, work, and play, as well as the consequentialist theory of morality tied to objective human needs.
Neural theories of cognition, emotion, decision making, and consciousness should point the way to a better understanding of the kinds of wisdom that we all depend on when we face difficult life decisions. Psychology and philosophy need more investigation of how realms of life such as love, work, and play help to satisfy people's basic needs