The Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love
The Bed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Members
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Ingrid Albrecht, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Moral Psychology; Love, Ethics, Kant, Hume
Barbara S. Andrew, William Paterson University
Ethics; Social and Political Philosophy; Feminist Theory
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Kristen Blinne, University of South Florida
Narrative and Poetic Inquiry; Performing Love and Sexuality
Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
Normative Ethics; Feminist Ethics; Sexual Ethics; Children's Sexual Agency
Thom Brooks, University of Newcastle
Feminism; Kant and Hegel; Multiculturalism
- "In Search of Shiva: Mahadeviyakka's Virashaivism," Asian Philosophy 12(1) (2002): 21-34
- "The Problem with Polygamy," Philosophical Topics (2009) forthcoming
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Ann Cahill, Elon University
Feminist theory, Philosophy of the Body
- "Sexual Violence and Objectification," in Theorizing Sexual Violence, eds. Renee Heberle and Victoria Grace. Routledge (2009), 14-30
Eric Cave, Arkansas State University
Normative Ethics; Social and Political Philsosophy, Rationality and Rational Choice, Erotic Love; Marriage, Sexual Seduction
- "Unsavory Seduction," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (2009): 235-45
- "What's Wrong with Motive Manipulation?" Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007): 129-44
- "Marital Pluralism: Making Marriage Safer for Love," Journal of Social Philosophy 34 (2003): 331-47
Jeremy de Chavez, Queen's University
Political Uses of Love; Alain Badiou; Erich Fromm; Franz Fanon; "Deviant" Love (Incest, Interracial relationships, Queer love, et al.)
Howard Chiang, Princeton University
History and Historical Epistemology of Biology, Medicine, and the Human Sciences; Gender and Sexuality in Modern China
- "The Historical Formation of Sexuality: Europe, China, and Modernity Global," Critical Studies in History 2, no. 1 (June 2009): in press
- "Rethinking 'Style' for Historians and Philosophers of Science: Converging Lessons from Sexuality, Translation, and East Asian Studies," Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 40, no. 2 (June 2009): 109-118
- "Empire of Desires: History and Queer Theory in an Age of Global Affect," Critical Studies in History 1 (December 2008): 50-71
- "The Conceptual Contours of Sex in the Chinese Life Sciences: Zhu Xi (1899-1962), Hermaphroditism, and the Biological Discourse of Ci and Xiong, 1920-1950," East Asian Science, Technology and Society 2, no. 3 (September 2008): 401-430
Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbory
Intimate discrimination; Sexual attraction and aversion; Gay, asexual, and inter-racial marriage
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Shannon Dea, University of Waterloo
Early Modern Philosophy; Classic Pragmatism; Gender Issues
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Yiftach J. H. Fehige, University of Toronto
Metaphysics of Human Sexuality; New Phenomenology of Human Sexuality [Hermann Schmitz], Gay Marriage and Roman-Catholic Doctrine
- "Transsexualität zwischen Genetik und sozialer Praxis. Eine philosophische Anmerkung" (Transsexuality between genetics and social practice. A philosophical Remark), in: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie (German Journal of Philosophy), vol. 57 (2009)
- Sexualphilosophie. Eine einführende Annäherung (Philosophy of Sex: An introductory approach), volume 10 of the series Einführungen Philosophie (Philosophy Introductions), Berlin: LIT Verlag 2007
Gary Foster, Wilfred Laurier University
Ethics; Philosophy of Love; Existentialism and Personal Identity
- "Bestowal Without Appraisal: Problems in Harry Frankfurt’s Characterization of Love and Personal Identity." Ethical Theory and Moral Practicey 12(2) (2009), 153-168. Online at ETMP
- "Romantic Love and Knowledge: Refuting the Claim of Egoism" Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review XLVII (2008), 235-251
- "Rawls and Ricoeur on Reconciling the Right and the Good: An Overlapping Consensus or an Ethical Aim?" Philosophy Today 51(2) (2007), 162-178
Sarah S. G. Frantz, Fayetteville State University
Literary Criticism; Popular Romance Studies; Construction of Gender
- "Darcy’s Vampiric Descendants: Austen’s Perfect Romance Hero and J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood," Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal Online 30.1 (Winter 2009)
- "Jane Austen’s Heroes and the Great Masculine Renunciation." Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal 25 (2003): 165-175
- "'If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more': Direct Dialogue and Education in the Proposal Scenes," in Talk in Jane Austen. Eds. Bruce Stovel and Lynn Weinlos-Gregg. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2002. 167-182
- "'Expressing' Herself: The Romance Novel and the Feminine Will to Power," in Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America. Eds. Lydia Cushman Schurman and Deidre Johnson. Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002. 17-36
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Mane Hajdin, Santa Clara University
Metaethics; Applied Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Social and Political Philosophy
- The Law of Sexual Harassment: A Critique. Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: Susquehanna University Press, 2002
- Sexual Harassment: A Debate, co-authored with Linda LeMoncheck. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1997
- "Sexual Harassment and Negligence," Journal of Social Philosophy vol. 28, # 1, pp. 37-53 (1997)
- "Sexual Harassment in the Law: The Demarcation Problem," Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 25, # 3, pp. 102-122 (1994)
Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta
- Self-Transformations: Foucault, Ethics, and Normalized Bodies (Oxford University Press, 2007)
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Ada Jaarsma, Sonoma State University
Feminist Philosophy and Feminist Theory; Queer Theory and Gender Studies; Existentialism; Critical Theory; 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
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John Kleinig, John Jay College, CUNY Graduate Center & Australian National University
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Alice MacLachlan, York University
Ethics (especially Feminist Ethics, Virtue Ethics, and Moral Psychology); Social and Political Philosophy
Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo, co-President of SPSL
Metaethics; Truth; Philosophy of Mathematics; Sexual Objectification, Autonomy, and Desire
- "Seeking Desire: Reflections on Blackburn's Lust," Social Philosophy Today 22 (2007), 219-230
- "The Ethics of Sexual Objectification: Autonomy and Consent," Inquiry 51 (2008), 345-364
Michael McCrocklin, Sex Therapist
Love, Christian Ethics; Psychology; Sex Therapy; Sex Offender Therapy; Sex Education, Ethics
Jen McWeeny, John Carroll University
French Phenomenology; Emotion Theory; Epistemology; Feminist Comparative Philosophy; Early Modern Philosophy
- "Love, Theory, and Politics: Critical Trinities in Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins" In Contradictions of freedom: Philosophical essays on Simone de Beauvoir’s "The Mandarins," ed. Sally J. Scholz and Shannon Mussett, 157-176. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005
Saad Mohammad, Independent Scholar
Plato, Platonic Theory of Love, Freudian Psychoanalytic Theory
Amy Mullin, University of Toronto
Loving relationships between children and their caregivers (including but not limited to parents)
- Reconceiving Pregnancy and Childcare: Ethics, Experience and Reproductive Labor, Cambridge University Press, 2005
- "Like a Mother’: Paid Mother-work Performed in Private Spaces" in Motherhood and Space, eds. Caroline Wiedemer and Sarah Hardy (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), 203-220
- "Trust, Social Norms and Motherhood" in Journal of Social Philosophy, Fall 2005 (Vol. 36, No. 3, 316-330)
- "Parents and Children: An Alternative to Unconditional and Selfless Love" in Hypatia, Winter 2006 (Vol. 21, No. 1, 181-200)
- "Children, Caregivers, and Friends: Models of Care" in Children and Responsibility, eds. Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle, Wilfrid Laurier Press, 2007, 47-71
- "Children, Autonomy and Care” in Journal of Social Philosophy, Winter 2007 (Vol. 38, No. 4, 536-553)
- "Giving as well as receiving: Love, Children and Parents" in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Fall 2007 (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- "Paid Childcare, Responsibility and Trust" forthcoming in Maternal Thinking: Philosophy, Politics, Practice , ed. Andrea O’Reilly, Demeter Press, 2009
- "Filial Responsibilities of Dependent Children" forthcoming in Hypatia Winter 2010 (Vol. 25, No. 1)
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C. Shawn Oak, University of Louisville
Theories of Intimacy; Geriatric Sexuality; Alternative Relationships; Men’s/ Masculine Studies
Christine Overall, Queen's University
Feminist philosophy; Applied Ethics; Philosophy of Religion
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Alexis Shotwell, Laurentian University
Unspeakable and Unspoken Knowledge and its Implications for Epistemology, Feminist theories, Gender studies, Critical race theories, Affect and Emotion, Cultural studies
- "A Knowing That Resided in My Bones: Sensuous Embodiment and Genderqueer Social Movement," in Susan Sherwin, Susan Campbell, and Letitia Meynell (eds.), Agency and Embodiment Penn State, 2009
- "Resisting Definition: Gendering Through Interaction and Relational Selfhood,” Hypatia 24.3 Summer 2009
Laurie Shrage, Florida International University
Political Philosophy; Feminist Theory
- You've Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, Oxford University Press, 2007
- "Feminist Perspectives on Sex Markets," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised 2007)
- "Exposing the Fallacies of Anti-Porn Feminism," Feminist Theory 6(1) (April 2005), 45-65
William Stephens, Creighton University
Love and Friendship in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy; Sexual Ethics
- "Epictetus on How the Stoic Sage Loves," Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy XIV (1996): 193–210
- "Wise Woman Vs. Manic Man: Diotima and Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium," Sex, Love and Friendship Volume 2: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003 (Rodopi), forthcoming
- "Separated Spouses and Equal Partners: Cicero, Ovid, and Marriage at a Distance," Sex, Love and Friendship Volume 2: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003 (Rodopi), forthcoming
- "Can a Stoic Love?" Sex, Love and Friendship Volume 2: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003 (Rodopi), forthcoming
- "If Friendship Hurts, an Epicurean Deserts," Sex, Love and Friendship Volume 2: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003 (Rodopi), forthcoming
Scott Stewart, Cape Breton University
Applied Philosophy; Biomedical ethics; Philosophy of Love and Sex; Philosophy and Literature
- Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: A Philosophic Discussion of the End of Love," Philosophy in the Contemporary World, 14.2, 2007, 60-73
- Review of Daniel Bergner, The Other Side of Desire: Four Journeys Into the Far Realms of Lust and Longing (New York: Harper Collins, 2009) in Metapsychology 13 (22), 2009
- Review of Mary Roach, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex (New York & London: WW Norton, 2008), in Metapsychology 12 (31), 2008
- Review of Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence (New York: Harper Collins, 2006), in Metapsychology 12 (4), 2008
- Review of Pamela Drukerman, Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee (New York: Penguin, 2007) in Metapsychology 11.35, 2007
Anita Superson, University of Kentucky
Metaethics; Normative Ethics; Feminism
- "Amorous Relationships Between Faculty and Students," The Southern Journal of Philosophy 39 (3) (Fall 2001): 419-440
- "A Feminist Definition of Sexual harassment," Journal of Social Philosophy 24 (2) (Spring 1993): 46-64
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Helga Varden, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,co-President of SPSL
Legal and Political Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; History of Political Thought; Ethics; Kant; Applied Ethics
- "A Kantian, Feminist Conception of Abortion and Homosexuality," in Analytical Feminist Contributions to Traditional Philosophy, eds. Anita M. Superson and Sharon Crasnow (forthcoming)
- "A Kantian Conception of Rightful Sexual Relations: Sex, (Gay) Marriage and Prostitution." Social Philosophy Today, vol. 22 (2007) ("Science, Technology and Social Justice"): 199-218
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Shelley Weinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
History of Early Modern Philosophy
Cori Wong, Penn State University
Feminist Philosophy; Social Epistemology; Ontology; as these apply to Gender, Race, and Sexuality
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