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Events from 1993 to 2007
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 2003, Washington D. C.
Topic: Love and Rationality: Emotions and Morality
Speaker: Gustavo Ortiz-Millan, Columbia University, "Love and Rationality: On Some Possible Rational Effects of Love"
Speaker: Susan Stark, Bates College, "A Change of Heart: Moral Emotions, Transformation, and Moral Virtue"
Comments by Karen Stohr, Georgetown University
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 24, 2003, Cleveland
Speaker: Betty Woodman, Georgia State University, "Understanding Sartrean Desire and Domination: Men, Women, and Authentic Relationship"
Comments by Benjamin Gorman, Temple University
Speaker: Eric Cave, Arkansas State University, "Sexual Liberalism and Seduction"
Comments by Mary MacLeod, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 2002, Philadelphia
Topic: Author Meets Critics: Alan Soble's Pornography, Sex, and Feminism
Author: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans
Critics:
Mane Hajdin, Santa Clara University
Linda Williams, Kent State University
Kathleen Wininger, University of Southern Maine
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 25, 2002, Chicago
Topic: Husband/Wife Relationships in History and Literature
Speaker: Sabine Grebe, Cambridge University, "The Transformation of the Husband/Wife Relationship during Exile: Letters from Cicero and Ovid"
Comments by William Stephens, Creighton University
Speaker: Andrea Veltman, James Madison University, "Aristotle and Kant on the Value of Knowing a Friend,"
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 30, 2001, Atlanta
Topic: Sexual Ethics and Sexual Virtues
Speaker: David Benatar, University of Cape Town, "Two Views of Sexual Ethics: Promiscuity, Rape, and Pedophilia"
Comments by Joan Hoff, Montana State University
Speaker: Raja Halwani, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, "Sexual Virtues"
Comments by Carol Quinn, Metropolitan State College of Denver
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, May 3, 2001, Minneapolis
Speaker: Andrew I. Cohen, University of Oklahoma, "Examining the Moral Bonds and Bounds of Friendship"
Comments by Diane Jeske, University of Iowa
Speaker: Ludger Viefhues, Harvard University, "Insights from the Straight-Jacket: Epistemological Concerns Expressed by Religiously Motivated Anti-Queer Sentiments"
Comments by Carol Quinn, Syracuse University
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 30, 2000, New York
Topic: Love, Sex, Freedom, and Virtue
Speaker: Caroline Meline, Temple University, "The Dialectic of Love and Freedom"
Comments by Barbara S. Andrew, University of Oregon
Speaker: Erik J. Wielenberg, DePauw University, "Aristotelian Love-Making"
Comments by Edward Abrams, University of Massachusetts
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 22, 2000, Chicago
Speaker: Martha Beck, Lyon College, "Jung and Plato on Individuation”
Comments by Ashley Pryor, University of Toledo
Speaker: Andrew John Mitchell, SUNY Stony Brook, "Friendship Amongst the Self-Sufficient: Epicurus"
Comments by William Stephens, Creighton University
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1999, Boston
Speaker: Raja Halwani, School of the Art Institute of Chicago "Love and Virtue"
Comments by Marianne Janack, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Speaker: John Orlando, University of Vermont, "Marriage Laws and Gender Discrimination: The Anti-miscegenation Analogy"
Comments by Jo Trigilio, Bentley College
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, May 8, 1999, New Orleans
Speaker: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans, "Kant on Sex"
Comments by Natalie Brender, Wesleyan University
Speaker: Carol Quinn, Syracuse University, "Embracing Gayness with Integrity"
Comments by Raja Halwani
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1998, Washington, D.C.
Speaker: Sara Goering, University of Colorado, Boulder, "Choosing Our Friends: Moral Partiality and the Value of Diversity"
Comments by Rob Figueroa, Webster University
Speaker: Eric Cave, Arkansas State University, "Marital Pluralism: Making Marriage Safer for Love"
Comments by Wendy Lee, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, May 7, 1998, Chicago
Speaker: Robert Card, McGill University, "Gender, Justice within the Family, and the Commitments of Liberalism"
Comments by Cindy Holder, University of Arizona
Sheldon Wein, Saint Mary's University, "IUD's, STD's, and DNA: Reconsidering Hume's Modesty Proposal"
Comments by Jennifer Parks, Loyola University of Chicago
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 30, 1997, Philadelphia
Topic: Platonic Eros
Speakers: Anne O'Byrne, Vanderbilt University, "Sex and Excess: Timaeus and Aristophanes on Eros"
Lee David Perlman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Wounded Eros"
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 24, 1997, Pittsburgh
Speaker: Al Spangler, California State University, Long Beach, "Sexual Desire and Arousal"
Comments by Anne E. Phibbs, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul
Speaker: Laura Duhan Kaplan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, "Love's Longing Fulfilled: Metaphysical Comfort and Plato's Symposium"
Comments by William Stephens, Creighton University
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1996, Atlanta
Speaker: Raja Halwani, Rollins College, "Virtue Ethics and Adultery"
Comments by Viki Soady
Speaker: Nikolay Milkov, University of Bielefeld, "Sexual Experience"
Comments by Laura Duhan Kaplan, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 25, 1996, Chicago
Speaker: Stan van Hooft, Deakin University, Australia, "Commitment and the Bond of Love"
Comments by Marshall Missner, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1995, New York
Topic: Romantic Love
Speaker: Barbara Hannan, University of New Mexico, "Love and Human Bondage in Maugham, Spinoza, and Freud"
Comments by Steven Barbone, Marquette University
Speaker: Richard White, Creighton University, "The Future of Romantic Love"
Comments by David Mertz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 27, 1995, Chicago
Speaker: William Stephens, Creighton University, "Can a Stoic Love?"
Comments by Martha Nussbaum, University of Chicago
Speaker: Honi F. Haber, University of Colorado, Denver, "Gender Politics and the Cross-Dresser"
Comments by Patrick Hopkins, Washington University, St. Louis
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1994, Boston
Topic: Sexual Salesmen and Date Rape
Speaker: Robert Rosenfeld, University of Massachusetts, Boston, "The Burden of Initiation"
Comments by Louisa Lee Moon, Mira Costa College
Speaker: Louisa Lee Moon, Mira Costa College, "Prostitution and Date Rape: The Commodification of 'Consent'"
Comments by Robert Rosenfeld, University of Massachusetts, Boston
SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 31, 1994, Los Angeles
Speaker: Caroline Simon, Hope College, "Just Friends, Friends and Lovers, or...?"
Speaker: Robert Van Wyk, University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, "The Morality of Teenage Sex and its Implication for Sex Education"
Panel Discussion at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1993, Atlanta
Session co-sponsored by SPSL, the Society for Gay and Lesbian Philosophy, and the Society for Women in Philosophy
Topic: Why Sexuality Matters to Philosophy
Helen Longino, Rice University
Martha Nussbaum, Brown University
Cass Sunstein, University of Chicago
Michael Tanner, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University,
Comments by Morris Kaplan State University, State University of New York, Purchase
SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1993, Atlanta
Topic: Feminism and Sexuality
Speaker: Linda LeMoncheck, California State University, Long Beach, "Loose Women and Lecherous Men: Notes on Feminism and Promiscuity"
Speaker: Ronald Suter, Michigan State University, "What is This Thing Called Love?"
SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 22, 1993, Chicago
Speaker: James Conlon, Mount Mary College, "Why Lovers Cannot Be Friends"
Speaker: Timothy Murphy, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, "Homosex/Ethics"
Events from 1977 to 1992
Events from 2008 to present
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Patricia Marino
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