Focus and Scope
The International Journal for Field-Being (IJFB), published annually or semi-annually by the International Institute for Field-Being at Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.A., is dedicated to the promotion of Field-Being and non-substantialist thought in the hope of arriving at a fresh and viable conceptuality for the Global Age. In accordance with this mission, it invites both philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions in the following categories:
1. Original contributions to Field-Being Philosophy and non-substantialist thought 2. Field-Being, substantialism and non-substantialism in the Western tradition 3. Field-Being, substantialism and non-substantialism in the Asian or other non-Western traditions 4. The Non-substantialistic Turn in 20th century science, philosophy and culture 5. East-West or intercultural comparative reflections from the Field-Being or non-substantialist perspective
In addition to articles, book reviews, transactions, notes, and other formats are welcome. We especially encourage contributions that contain discussions and debates on previously published articles in the Journal.
Review Process
With the exception of invited papers and conference proceedings from Field-Being conferences, all unsolicited contributions will go through the review process involving both internal assessment and external review. Submitted manuscripts will be initially judged by the Editors on their acceptability before passing through other members of the Editorial Board. In case that the Editors and the Editorial Board cannot arrive at a decision on a submitted paper, it will be sent to an external reviewer for their comments and evaluations. The review process normally takes three to six months.
Open Access Policy
International Journal for Field-Being provides open access to all its published materials in order to encourage open discussion and free exchange of research on Field-Being and non-substantialistic and thought.
People
Editor: Lik Kuen Tong (Fairfield University) Co-editors: Curt R. Naser (Fairfield University) Laura E. Weed (The College of St. Rose
Managing Editor: Therese Dykeman (Independent Scholar)
Editorial Board (Other Members)
Jesper Garsdal (University of Aarhus, Denmark) Silja Graupe (Bonn, Germany) Gereon Kopf (Luther College) Jin Young Park (American University) K. R. Sundararajan (St. Bonaventure University) David White (St. John Fisher College) Jason Wirth (Seattle University)
Author Guidelines
I. Page Setup, Paper Titles and Subtitles
Page Setup
? Margins: 1? for both left and right margins; 1.25? for top and bottom margins
? Page number: bottom center
Title of Paper
? Title of Paper
? Align left
? Title case
Author?s Full Name
? 1 space down from Title of Paper
? TNR 12, bold
? Align left
? 3 spaces between Author?s Full Name and first Section Title or first line of text
Section Title
? TNR 12, bold
? Align left
? Title case
II. Main Body of Text
? 1 space between Section Title and first line of text
? TNR 12
? Align left, paragraphs justified, single space
? 1 space between paragraphs
? All non-English words except proper names should be in italics
? 2 spaces between last line of paragraph and next Section Title
III. Long Quotations
? Indentation: 0.2?? on both left and right
? TNR 11
? Indented paragraph justified
? 1 space between paragraphs
IV. Endnotes
IMPORTANT: Authors should use the reference program in Microsoft Word for endnote citation (indicated by raised numbers1) instead of footnote or parenthetical citation.
? 2 spaces between last line of text and the word ?NOTES? (TNR 12, bold, center)
? Paragraph style: right justified 11
? Font: TNR 11
? First line of each citation indented (see below)
? For notes 1 through 9, click the space bar 9 times and at the 10th position type the note citation number in normal scrip (not superscript) followed by a period (e.g. ?1.?)
? For notes 10 and above, click the space bar 8 times and at the 9th position type the note citation number in normal scrip (not superscript) followed by a period (e.g. ?19.?)
? Leave 1 space between the period and the first word in the first line of note citation
? Italicize rather than underline published book and journal titles; place article and chapter titles in quotation marks
? All book, journal, and article titles in title case
V. Citation Style
Books (Single Author)
1. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (New York: Penguin Books, 1978), p. 63.
[Note: There should be no comma or period after ?Man?]
Books (Multiple Authors)
2. Chen Kenichi and Yuki Saito, That?s the Story of Our Lives (New York: Super Publishing, 1999), p. 42.
Translations
3. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, trans. A. J. Hollingdale (New York: Penguins Books, 1990), p. 22.
[Note: The translator?s name should follow ?trans.? With no space in between]
Edited Works
4. Rene Weber, ?The Enfolding-Unfolding Universe: A Conversation with David Bohm,? in The Holographic Paradigm, ed. Ken Wilber (Boulder, Colo.: New Science Library, 1982), pp. 83-84
Works in an Anthology
5. Jean-Paul Sartre, ?Existentialism is a Humanism,? trans. Phillip Mairet, Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, ed. Walter Kaufman (New York: Meridian Books, 1975), p. 11.
Article in a Journal
6. Peter Scotto, ?Censorship, Reading, and Interpretation: A Case Study from the Soviet Union,? PMLA 109 (1994), p. 7.
Use of ?Ibid? for Repeated References
1. Arthur Waley, The Analects of Confucius (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938), p. 32
2. Ibid. [With no intervening reference, a second reference to the same volume and page of Waley?s work requires only ibid.]
3. Ibid., p. 6. [refers to a different page of the same work by Waley]
4. Authur Waley, Chinese Poems (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938), p. 48.
5. Waley, The Analects of Confucius, p. 32. [With intervening reference, another citation of Waley?s The Analects of Confucius does not require the full citation. Only the last name needs to be cited.
VI. Other Formatting Matters
? Periods and commas should be placed inside quotation marks; semicolons and colons are to be placed outside. Question marks and exclamation marks are also to be placed outside unless they are part of the matter quoted.
Wrong: ?It is never too late to mend?.
Right: ?It is never too late to mend.?
Wrong: The question is, ?Is good deed its own reward??
Right: The question is, ?Is good deed its own reward??
Wrong: ?? management system1,? following ?
Right: ?? management system,?1 following ?
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no space at either side of a dash (?): press
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Alt plus ? (minus sign on numerical pad) simultaneously
Wrong: It is quite unlikely ? of course, one cannot be certain ? that he will be elected major this time.
Right: It is quite unlikely?of course, one cannot be certain?that he will be elected major this time.
AREAS AND TOPICS IN FIELD-BEING RESEARCH
Group I Field-Being, Substantialism and Non-Substantialism in Asian Philosophy
? The I Ching and Field-Being
? Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, and Field-Being
? Taoism, Neo-Taoism, and Field-Being
? Hinduism, Buddhism, and Field-Being
Group II Field-Being, Substantialism and Non-Substantialism in Western Philosophy
? Classical philosophy and Field-Being (Heraclitus, Parmenides, Plato, Aristotle)
? Modern philosophy and Field-Being (Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, German Idealism)
Group III Field-Being and the Non-Substantialistic Turn in Twentieth Century Philosophy and Thought
? The New Science and Field-Being (Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Bohm)
? Process Philosophy/Theology and Field-Being (Bergson, Whitehead, Hartshorne, Cobb)
? System Theory and Field-Being (von Bertalanvy, Laslo)
? Phenomenology and Field-Being (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty)
? Existentialism and Field-Being (Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Marcel, Buber, Sartre, de Beauvoir)
? Pragmatism and Field-Being (Peirce, Dewey, James, Rorty)
? Hermeneutics and Field-Being (Gadamas, Ricoeur)
? Structuralism and Field-Being (Saussure, Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault)
? Deconstruction and Field-Being (Derrida, Levinas)
? Critical Theory and Field-Being (Lukacs, Marcuse, Adorno, Habermas)
? Post-modernism and Field-Being (Deleuze, Baudrillard, Lyotard)
? Deep Ecology and Field-Being (Callicott, Naess)
? Gender Studies and Field-Being (Harding, Bordo)
? Analytic Philosophy and Field-Being (Rye, Wittgenstein, Quine, Sellers)
? Kyoto School (Nishida, Hajime, Nishitani, Yoshinori, Abe) and Field-Being
? Contemporary Neo-Confucianism (Hsiung Shih-li, Tang Chun-I, Mou Tsung-san) and Field-Being
Group IV Interdisciplinary and Comparative/Cross-cultural Perspectives
? Field-Being and the Integration of the Physical and Social SciencesThe New Science and Field-Being (Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Bohm)
? Field-Being in the Arts
? Applied Ethics and Field-Being
? Politics, Management, and Field-Being
? Information, Communication, and Field-Being
? Field-Being and the Resolution of Civilizational Conflicts
? Field-Being and Interfaith Dialogue
? Field-Being and Technology
? Field-Being and the 21st Millennium
