Graduate School of Social Sciences
YOSHIZAWA Fumitake

Books and Other Publications

1. The Frontiers of Analytic Metaphysics: Person, Fate, Death, and Truth
Kunihisa Morita, Tatsuya Kashiwabata, Yoshiyuki Yokoro, Mariko Goto, Hiroshi Ohata, Wataru Sasaki, Fumitake Yoshizawa, Masahiro Takatori, Naoaki Kitamura (Contributor)
Shunjusha 2024.11 (ISBN : 9784393322321)
2. Gendai Shiso 52(4)
Fumitake Yoshizawa (Contributor)
青土社 2024.2 (ISBN : 9784791714612)
3. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Life's Meaning
森岡正博, 蔵田伸雄編 (Contributor)
春秋社 2023.12 (ISBN : 9784393333952)
4. Encyclopedia of Food Cultures of the World
吉沢文武, 野林厚志 (Contributor)
丸善出版 2021.1 (ISBN : 9784621305935)
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5. Gendai Shiso 47(12)
Fumitake Yoshizawa (Contributor)
青土社 2019.9 (ISBN : 9784791713868)
6. Space Ethics
Fumitake Yoshizawa (Contributor)
昭和堂 2018.12 (ISBN : 9784812217382)
7. Reconsidering Meaning in Life: A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz
Fumitake Yoshizawa (Contributor)
Journal of Philosophy of Life 2016.1
8. 「倫理」における「主体」の問題 (叢書アレテイア)
吉沢文武, 仲正 昌樹
御茶の水書房 2013.12 (ISBN : 4275010566)

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Papers

1. Anti‐natalism is incompatible with Theory X (Peer-reviewed)
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Bioethics Vol.38,No.2,pp.114-120 2024.2
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2. A Dilemma for Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument (Peer-reviewed)
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Vol.24,No.2,pp.529-544 2021.5
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3. Death and the Meaning of Life: A Critical Study of Metz’s Meaning in Life (Peer-reviewed)
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Journal of Philosophy of Life (Special Issue: Reconsidering Meaning in Life – A Philosophical Dialogue with Thaddeus Metz) Vol.5,No.3,pp.134-149 2015.10
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4. Epicureanism about the Badness of Death and Experientialism about Goodness (Peer-reviewed)
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Applied Ethics: Risk, Justice and Liberty pp.85-95 2013.7
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5. Reconstructing David Benatar’s Asymmetry Argument
Fumitake Yoshizawa
Journal of Studies on Humanities and Public Affairs of Chiba University Vol.44,pp.32-47 2022.3
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6. 動物を生み出すことと動物への危害 (Peer-reviewed)
吉沢文武
東北哲学会年報 Vol.36,pp.47-61 2020.6
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7. 死と生の形而上学――存在と非存在をめぐる二つの直観について―― (Peer-reviewed)
吉沢文武
千葉大学 2015.3
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8. On Metaphysical Frameworks for the Problems of the Dead: An Examination of Meinongianism (Peer-reviewed)
Fumitake YOSHIZAWA
Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Vol.4,pp.1-18 2012.7
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9. 死と不死と人生の意味——不死性要件をめぐるメッツの議論と不死に関するもう一つの解釈 (Peer-reviewed)
吉沢文武
応用倫理 Vol.5,No.5,pp.41-50 2011.11
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10. 生前説と四次元主義――死後の害に関する二つの見解の親和性――
吉沢文武
『哲学的自然主義の諸相の展開』千葉大学大学院人文社会科学研究科 研究プロジェクト報告書 第203集 pp.102-110 2011.2
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11. Two interpretations of the termination thesis
吉沢 文武
Studies on humanities and social sciences of Chiba University Vol.0,No.20,pp.253-263 2010.3
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12. 死によって誰が害を被るのか――剥奪説を批判する――
吉沢文武
哲学の探求 Vol.36,No.36,pp.129-144 2009.5
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Misc.

1. 大学のなかのベジタリアン
吉沢文武
日本科学哲学会ニューズレター No.55,pp.5-9 2019.5
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2. Humanities and Social Science Studies for Space Exploration:Current Status and Future Perspectives
呉羽真, 伊勢田哲治, 磯部洋明, 稲葉振一郎, 岡本慎平, 神崎宣次, 清水雄也, 水谷雅彦, 吉沢文武
Humanities and Social Science Studies for Space Exploration:Current Status and Future Perspectives 2016.3

Presentations

No. Name of subject/Conference Name Year Site
1. Two Kinds of Meaninglessness in Life(6th International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life)
Holding date : 2024.6.17 - 2024.6.19
Presentation date : 2024.6.18
University of Liverpool
2. Internal and External Relations between Death and the Meaninglessness of Life(Meaning of Life International Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.6.12
3. What exactly is the Asymmetry of Procreational Duties (that is Allegedly Explained by Benatar’s Basic Asymmetry)?(Seminar on “Meaning in life” and Analytic Existentialism Meeting with David Benatar and Thaddeus Metz)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.8.19
Hokkaido University
4. Lacking Properties and Zero Well-Being(Workshop: Philosophy of Death and Meaning)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.8.4
Tohoku University
5. Value and Nonexistence: No Easy Way to Solve the Problem of the Value of Nonexistence (without Meinongianism)(Tokyo Workshop on Meinongianism: Nonexistence, Contradiction and Metaontology)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.10.15
6. The Comparative/Non-Comparative Dispute about the Account of Harm and the Badness of Death(International Association for the Philosophy of Death and Dying 2016 Conference)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.5.18
Syracuse University
7. The Counterfactual Comparative Account of Harm and the Preemption Problem(The 13th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.8.20
Yokohama National University
8. The Value of Birth and Life as a Whole: A Criticism of Benatar’s Anti-Natalism(Philosophy of Mental Time I: Human Existence in Time)
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Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.1.27
Nihon University, Sakurajosui campus, room 3201
9. Epicureanism about the Badness of Death and the Experientialism about Goodness(The Seventh International Conference on Applied Ethics)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2012.10.27
Hokkaido University
10. Metaphysics of Well-Being and the Dead(日本大学文理学部人文科学研究所主催第18回哲学ワークショップ「死の形而上学の新たな展開」)
Holding date : 2023.3.14
Presentation date : 2023.3.14
11. 反出生主義とは何か――デイヴィド・ベネターの見解を中心に(東京大学共生のための国際哲学研究センター(UTCP)シンポジウム 「反出生主義の含意と射程――「生まれてこなかった方がよかったのか」をなぜ問うのか」)
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Holding date :
Presentation date : 2021.5.29
12. Creating and Harming Non-human Animals(東北哲学会 第69回大会)
Holding date : 2019.10.19 - 2020.10.20
Presentation date : 2019.10.19
13. Philosophy of Meaning and Death(死生心理学研究会(令和元年度第1回))
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.9.6
14. What does death deprive us of?(人文死生学研究会(第17回))
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2019.3.30
15. David Benatar under Fire(D・ベネター『生まれてこない方が良かった』をめぐって)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2018.4.21
16. The Meaning of Life, and death: internal/external relationship between death and meaning(日本倫理学会第68回大会ワークショップ)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2017.10.6
17. The Value of Nonexistence and the Properties of Well-being(日本科学哲学会 第49回大会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.11.20
18. The Ethics of Animal Experimentation and the Harm of Death(CAPEワークショップ「人と動物の倫理研究会 第1回研究会」)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.3.18
19. The Comparative/Non-Comparative Dispute about the Account of Harm and the Value of Nonexistence(日本大学文理学部人文科学研究所第10回哲学ワークショップ「現代形而上学から倫理学へ」)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2016.3.14
20. The Ethics and Metaphysics of Unborn Cats(Kyoto Colloquium for the Contemporary Philosophy)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.12.14
21. The Compatrativism and the Non-Comparativism of Harm: the Elements and the Order(The Japanese Society for Ethics)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.10.4
22. 一方が害したのか、それとも一緒に害したのか――反事実条件的比較説の修正方針を検討する――(応用哲学会第6回年次研究大会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2014.5.10
関西大学
23. 生まれてくることの価値に関する非対称性──D・ベネターの議論への対案──(ワークショップいまこうしてここにいることの価値について ──誕生と生存のための分析哲学──)(応用哲学会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2013.4.21
24. 存在しないものにふれることはできるか――核性質と核外性質の分類について(応用哲学会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2012.4.21
25. Ontology of Property and Nonexistence Object(Japan Association for Philosophy of Science)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2011.6.5
26. On the Diachronic Identity between the Living and the Dead(Philosophy of Science Society, Japan)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2010.10.27
大阪市立大学
27. The Dead, Time and Meinongianism(Japan Association for the Contemporary and Applied Philosophy)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2010.4.25
北海道大学
28. 「終焉テーゼの二つの解釈」(ワークショップ「死者の 存在論をめぐって」)(科学基礎論学会2009年度・秋の研究例会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2009.11.7
慶應義塾大学
29. 死者とはどのような『存在者』なのか(応用哲学会第1回年次研究大会)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2009.4.25
京都大学
30. 死者は本当に害を被るか――現代英語圏における死の害についての議論――(哲学若手研究者フォーラム)
Holding date :
Presentation date : 2008.7.20
国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

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Awards

No. Award name Year
1. 平成30年度 秋田大学教養基礎教育 優秀授業奨励賞 2019.7

Research Projects

No. Research subject Research item(Awarding organization, System name) Year
1. Analytical-philosophical study of the 'Meaning of Life' and the philosophy of value.
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research )
2024.4 - 2027.3
2. Procreational Ethics to Bridge the Theory and Reality
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists )
2021.4 - 2025.3
3. Meaning of Life and the Metaphysics of Death: the Possibilities of Analytic Existentialism and a Critical Examination of it
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) )
2020.4 - 2024.3
4. Commonsensical Animal Ethics Based on the Concept of Harm
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists )
2018.4 - 2021.3
5. Research for establishment of space ethics
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Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research )
2016.4 - 2019.3
6. Analytical Existential Study of Meaning of Life and its Implementation to Applied Ethics
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
( Awarding organization: Japan Society for the Promotion of Science System name: Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research )
2016.4 - 2019.3
7. 死と非存在に関する哲学的・論理学的・形而上学的研究
特別研究員奨励費
( Awarding organization: 日本学術振興会 System name: 特別研究員奨励費 )
2011.4 - 2013.3

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