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 . 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 8 Essay

Life’s Perennial Problems

Kyle Takaki

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.1 (January 2018):1-19

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

“Dehellenization of Thought” and the Philosophy of Life

: From the Viewpoints of Leslie Dewart and Masahiro Morioka

Allan Savage

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.1 (January 2018):20-34

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

Life in Progress

: Musings about Speech, Thought and Understanding

Allan Savage

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.2 (July 2018):35-47

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

No Such Thing As the Good-Life

: A Critique and Plea for Ignorance

John Shand

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.2 (July 2018):48-64

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

A Brief Passage Through the Wilderness

Ben G. Yacobi

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.8, No.2 (July 2018):65-72

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Volume 7 Special Issue: Nihilism and the Meaning of Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia Preface

Masahiro Morioka

[PDF] Open Access Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

James Tartaglia

[PDF] Open Access Transcendent Reality and the Consciousness Problem

Adam Balmer

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):1-15

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Adam Balmer

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):16-20

[PDF] Open Access Is Consciousness Transcendent?

: Comments on James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality

Philip Goff

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):21-32

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Philip Goff

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):33-49

[PDF] Open Access Nothing but Nihilism?

: The Spirit of Purposelessness in James Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life

Ronald A. Kuipers

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):50-69

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Ronald A. Kuipers

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):70-80

[PDF] Open Access The Deep Personal Resonance of Nihilism

Tracy Llanera

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):81-91

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Tracy Llanera

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):92-97

[PDF] Open Access Living in the Frame

: Meaning on Loan from Nihilism

Alan Malachowski

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):98-119

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Alan Malachowski

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):120-135

[PDF] Open Access In Search of Perspective

: Notes on Freedom, Transcendence, and Finitude in Tartaglia’s Philosophy in a Meaningless Life

Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):136-151

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Bjørn Ramberg

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):152-159

[PDF] Open Access How Human Life Could be Unintended but Meaningful

: A Reply to Tartaglia

Brooke Alan Trisel

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):160-179

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Brooke Alan Trisel

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):180-186

[PDF] Open Access Transcendence

J. J. Valberg

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):187-194

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to J. J. Valberg

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):195-207

[PDF] Open Access ‘Life is Meaningless.’ Compared to What?

Damian Veal

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):208-260

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Damian Veal

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):261-278

[PDF] Open Access Transcendence and Mediation

: From Tartaglia to the Free-Will Debate

Sho Yamaguchi

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):279-304

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Reply to Sho Yamaguchi

James Tartaglia

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):305-315

[PDF] Open Access Book (Compilation of all the above papers)

Nihilism and the Meaning of Life

: A Philosophical Dialogue with James Tartaglia

Edited by Masahiro Morioka

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.1 (July 2017):1-315

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Paper

The Trolley Problem and the Dropping of Atomic Bombs

Masahiro Morioka

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.2 (August 2017):316-337

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Paper

Death to Death

: Descartes, Living Bodies, and the Concept of Death

Susan Mills

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.2 (August 2017):338-360

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

The Being of Death

Jim Hanson

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.2 (August 2017):361-376

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

Becoming a Seer

: Thoughts on Deleuze, Mindfulness and Feminism

Finn Janning

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.2 (August 2017):377-390

[Abstract] [PDF] Open Access Essay

Meaning and Fulfilment in Life

: The Roles of Criticism, Self-Discovery and Autobiography

Tony Summer

Journal of Philosophy of Life Vol.7, No.3 (October 2017):391-405

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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 (Tokyo Philosophy Project), 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 (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.