Aim
The aim of this journal is to promote international dialogue on the philosophy of life. It features original, full-length papers as well as research reports and other relevant materials. Every paper in the journal is published in PDF format and is freely downloadable from this website, the repository of Waseda University  , and/or the repository of Osaka Prefecture University (OPERA ). This journal is a member of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ ) and Philosophical Research Online (philpapers ).
Philosophy of Life
We define philosophy of life as an academic research field that encompasses the following activities:
1) cross-cultural, comparative, or historical research on philosophies of life, death, and nature.
2) philosophical and ethical analysis of contemporary issues concerning human and non-human life in the age of modern technology.
3) philosophical analysis of the concepts surrounding life, death, and nature.
Our research methods include the interpretative study of particular philosophers, comparative research in the history of ideas, normative approaches to applied ethics, and philosophical-metaphysical-conceptual analysis.
Journal of Philosophy of Life deals with a variety of philosophical issues concerning life, death, and nature, that arise in a wide range of fields including bioethics, environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, religious studies, gender studies, philosophy of science, philosophy of biology, biopolitics, nursing studies, philosophy of education, Holocaust studies, peace studies, and the history of ideas.
List of Articles
Volume 6
Paper
Human Extinction, Narrative Ending, and Meaning of Life
Brooke Alan Trisel
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.6, No.1 (April 2016):1-22
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
From Wisdom to Spirituality
: Serres, Polanyi and Complexity
Kyle Takaki
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.6, No.1 (April 2016):23-50
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
Reality According to Language and Concepts
Ben G. Yacobi
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.6, No.2 (June 2016):51-58
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
Living Well, Living, and Being
Kyle Takaki
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.6, No.3 (October 2016):59-73
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Volume 5
Essay
Philosophy for Everyday Life
Finn Janning
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.1 (July 2015):1-18
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Feminism, Disability, and Brain Death
: Alternative Voices from Japanese Bioethics
Masahiro Morioka
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.1 (July 2015):19-41
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
The Significance of Insignificance
: Two Ways to Learn to Die in an Egocentric World
J. Jeremy Wisnewski
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.2 (August 2015):42-61
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Does Death Give Meaning to Life?
Brooke Alan Trisel
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.2 (August 2015):62-81
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
Life and the Pursuit of Happiness
Ben G. Yacobi
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.2 (August 2015):82-90
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Special Issue: Reconsidering Meaning in Life – A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz
Preface
Masahiro Morioka
[PDF] Open Access
Précis of Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study
Thaddeus Metz
[PDF] Open Access
Paper
Source and Bearer
: Metz on the Pure Part-Life View of Meaning
Hasko von Kriegstein
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):1-18
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Fundamentality and Extradimensional Final Value
David Matheson
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):19-32
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Meaningful and More Meaningful
: A Modest Measure
Peter Baumann
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):33-49
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Is Meaning in Life Comparable?
: From the Viewpoint of ‘The Heart of Meaning in Life’
Masahiro Morioka
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):50-65
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Agreement and Sympathy
: On Metz’s Meaning in Life
Sho Yamaguchi
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):66-89
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Metz’s Quest for the Holy Grail
James Tartaglia
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):90-111
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Meaning without Ego
Christopher Ketcham
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):112-133
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Death and the Meaning of Life
: A Critical Study of Metz’s Meaning in Life
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):134-149
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Metz’ Incoherence Objection
: Some Epistemological Considerations
Nicholas Waghorn
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):150-168
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Meaning in Consequences
Mark Wells
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):169-179
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Defending the Purpose Theory of Meaning in Life
Jason Poettcker
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):180-207
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
Review of Thaddeus Metz’s Meaning in Life
Minao Kukita
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):208-214
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Essay
A Psychological Model to Determine Meaning in Life and Meaning of Life
Yu Urata
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):215-227
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
Paper
Assessing Lives, Giving Supernaturalism Its Due, and Capturing Naturalism
: Reply to 13 Critics of Meaning in Life
Thaddeus Metz
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):228-278
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access
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Book (Including all the Above Papers and Essays)
Reconsidering Meaning in Life
: A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz
Edited by Masahiro Morioka
Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.5, No.3 (October 2015):1-278
[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access |
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> Articles Before Volume 5
Call for Manuscripts
*Call for manuscripts for Vol.7, No.3 (2017): The deadline for submissions is September 30, 2017.
Please see the "Note to Contributors" section below.
Note to Contributors
- Manuscripts should be sent to the editor (please send to both of the following addresses: journal[a]philosophyoflife.org and morioka[a]waseda.jp).
- Unpublished English manuscripts will be considered for publication. Manuscripts must be written in English and normally should not exceed 8.000 words in length. In exceptional cases longer manuscripts may be published if it is deemed truly necessary.
- Manuscripts must include an abstract in English. Abstract must not exceed 150 words in length. Contributor should send information about the author using this format.
- Manuscripts should generally follow Chicago Manual of Style. Use of JPL format is also recommended. Submitted WORD files will be converted to a PDF and uploaded with some headers added. Contributors are responsible for the layout of the uploaded file.
- We accept the following three categories of manuscripts: papers, essays, and reports. While contributors can designate which category their manuscript should belong to, the final decision will be left to the editors. Papers include original academic papers, preliminary reports, survey papers, and papers which contain a summary or essential elements of a paper or papers that the author has previously published in his or her native languages. Essays include short & long essays and periodical essays. Please note that some manuscripts submitted as papers might be published under the category of preliminary reports, survey papers, or essays.
- Manuscripts must be edited by native English speakers before being submitted. Online editing services are recommended for contributors whose first language is not English.
- Manuscripts of papers will be examined by our editorial staff and if promising they will be forwarded to anonymous referees. Manuscripts for essays will be reviewed by the editor(s). We try to give authors our decision within ten weeks. Once accepted,
papers should appear within four weeks on this website. We do not necessarily provide information about referees' comments.
- The copyright of published manuscripts will be the property of Journal of Philosophy of Life. While Journal of Philosophy of Life reserves the right to publish the manuscripts, the authors are allowed to duplicate, print, or upload their manuscripts without permission once they are published in the journal. This means that authors can freely upload their articles to their website, or publish them as a chapter in a book.
- We do not charge any open-access fees to contributors.
- By submitting their manuscripts all contributors are deemed to have given permission for the publication of their manuscripts on the website of Journal of Philosophy of Life and on the repository of Waseda University . All articles will be indexed by search engines (e.g. Google Scholar ).
Editors
Masahiro Morioka (editor-in-chief), Faculty of Human Sciences, Waseda University, Japan
Kazuyuki Hosomi, Faculty of Integrated Human Studies, Kyoto University, Japan
Tetsuhiko Shinagawa, Faculty of Letters, Kansai University, Japan
Editorial Advisory Board
Bertold Bernreuter, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
Thaddeus Metz, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Christian Steineck, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Mark Zlomislic, Conestoga College, Canada
Bibliographic Data
Title: Journal of Philosophy of Life
ISSN: 2185-4505
Place of Publication: School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama, 3591192 Japan. (Former Place of Publication: Research Institute for Environmental Philosophy and Philosophical Anthropology, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University. Gakuencho 1-1, Naka-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 5998531 Japan).
Publisher: Project of Philosophy and Contemporary Society, Advanced Research Center for Human Sciences, Waseda University.
Editor-in-chief: Masahiro Morioka
Email: journal[a]philosophyoflife.org
*The first issue of the journal was published on March 24, 2011. This website was established on April 9, 2010.
Journal of Philosophy of Life as publisher
ISBN:978-4-9908668(0-8/1-5/2-2/3-9/4-6/5-3/6-0/7-7/8-4/9-1)
Place of Publication: School of Human Sciences, Waseda University, 2-579-15 Mikajima, Tokorozawa-shi, Saitama, 3591192 Japan. |
