Joel A. Van Fossen

Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS)
Hosei University

Books

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. and Daniel Star. Appreciation (Manuscript under contract). Oxford University Press.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. Nietzsche on Love (Cambridge Elements Series) (Manuscript under contract). Cambridge University Press.

Articles

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Ressentiment as a Reactive Attitude” (Forthcoming). In The Moral Psychology of Resentment, edited by Antti Kauppinen and Max Lewis. Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Love and Practical Wisdom” (2025). Psyche (March 31).

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “On Egoism and Honor in Spinoza” (2025). GIS journal: the Hosei journal of global and interdisciplinary studies 10: 36-49.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Finite Love” (2024). Inquiry, 1–30.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche on Self-Reverence” (2022). The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 53 (2): 181-201.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche and Shame” (2019). The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 50 (2): 233–249.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche, Self-Disgust, and Disgusting Morality” (2019). The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 50 (1): 79–105.

Book Reviews

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. Review of Donovan Miyasaki, Nietzsche’s Immoralism: Politics as First Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). The Journal of Moral Philosophy (Forthcoming).

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. Review of Samuel Hollander, A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700-1875 (Routledge, 2020). The Journal of Moral Philosophy 21.3-4 (July 2024): 488–491.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. Review of Christa Davis Acampora, Contesting Nietzsche (The University of Chicago Press, 2013). The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Fall 2018): 295-300.

Presentations

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche on Eros.” North American Nietzsche Society, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division 2026 Meeting (Online). April 13, 2026.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Love, Wellbeing, and Rational Requirement.” Invited Symposium Presentation at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division 2026 Meeting (Baltimore, MD USA). January 9, 2026.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. and Daniel Star. “Aesthetic Appreciation, Agency, and Respect.” Invited Symposium Presentation at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division 2026 Meeting (Baltimore, MD USA). January 9, 2026.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Appreciation, Inquiry, and Deliberation: Exploring the Structure of Three Processes.” Institute of Social Science, Analytical Philosophy Workshop (Tokyo University) (Tokyo, Japan). March 8, 2025.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche on Affirmative Love.” Love and Loneliness Workshop (California State University, San Bernardino) (San Bernardino, USA). December 6-7, 2024.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Aesthetic Appreciation and Aesthetic Engagement.” Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy (Tokyo, Japan). November 29, 2024.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Sidgwick, Rationality, and the Dualism of Practical Reason.” International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2024 Conference (University College London) (London, UK). June 18-20, 2024.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. and Daniel Star. “Aesthetic Appreciation, Aesthetic Judgments, and Love.” Invited Workshop (Kyoto University). June 11-12, 2024.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Aesthetic Appreciation, Aesthetic Judgments, and Love.” GIS Talk (Hosei University) (Tokyo, Japan). May 17, 2024.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. and Daniel Star. “Aesthetic Appreciation, Aesthetic Judgments, and Love.” Faculty Work in Progress Workshop (Boston University, USA Online). December 8, 2023.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Satisficing Love.” The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love Online Seminar (Online). November 30, 2023.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Satisficing Love.” Colloquium Presentation at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division 2023 Meeting (Montreal, Québec CA). January 4-7, 2023.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Love in the Deepest Sense.” North American Nietzsche Society 2022 Conference (Brown University) (Providence, RI USA). October 7-8, 2022.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche on Self-Reverence.” North American Nietzsche Society 2021 Conference (Georgia State University) (Atlanta, GA USA). October 15-17, 2021.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “On Egoism and Honor in Spinoza.” Colloquium Presentation at American Philosophical Association Eastern Division 2021 Meeting (Online). January 4, 2021.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “‘Birth Follows the Belly’: A Reinterpretation of Natural Maternal Dominion in Hobbes.” Symposium Presentation at American Philosophical Association Central Division 2019 Meeting (Denver, CO USA). February 20-23, 2019.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “‘Birth Follows the Belly’: A Reinterpretation of Natural Maternal Dominion in Hobbes.” International Hobbes Association 2019 Annual Meeting (New York, NY USA). January 7-10, 2019.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “‘Birth Follows the Belly’: A Reinterpretation of Natural Maternal Dominion in Hobbes.” Invited pre-read workshop, The European Hobbes Society “Hobbes and Gender Workshop” (Friedrich-Alexander Universität) (Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany). November 22-23, 2018.

  • Van Fossen, Joel A. “Nietzsche and Shame.” North American Nietzsche Society 2018 Conference (Stanford University) (Stanford, CA USA). October 5-7, 2018.