Sex, love, and friendship : studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003

Sex, love, and friendship : studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003 / edited by Adrianne Leigh McEvoy.

The joke is that all the prostitutes go on vacation when the philosophers come to town. The reason that the other conventioneers do it, philosophers just talk about it. And talk about sex and love, and friendship is what the contributors to this volume do! They talk and argue, split hairs and clarif...

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Corporate Author: Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love
Other Authors: McEvoy, Adrianne (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2011.
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 232.
Histories and addresses of philosophical societies.
Subjects:
Sex.
Love.
Friendship.
Homosexuality.
sexuality.
homosexuality.
love (emotion)
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > Humanism.
Friendship
Homosexuality
Love
Sex
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Table of Contents:
  • Why lovers can't be friends / James Conlon
  • Feminism and promiscuity / Linda LeMoncheck
  • Clarifying the question, "What is this thing called love?" / Ronald Suter
  • Just friends, friends and lovers, or ...? / Caroline J. Simon
  • Morality of teenage sex and its implications for sex education / Robert Van Wyk
  • Burden of initiation / Robert Rosenfeld
  • Complexity of "no" : a response to Rosenfeld / Louisa Lee Moon
  • Prostitution and date rape : The commodification of consent / Louisa Lee Moon
  • Participation or consent : a response to Moon / Robert Rosenfeld
  • Can a stoic love? / William O. Stephens
  • Gender politics and the cross-dresser / Patrick Hopkins
  • Spinoza in love / Steven Barbone
  • Whither romantic love / David Mertz
  • Commitment and the bond of love / Stanislas Marcus van Hooft
  • Reply to van Hooft / Marshall Missner
  • Virtue ethics and adultery / Raja Halwani
  • Critical response to "Virtue ethics and adultery" / Ana Victoria (Viki) Soady
  • Sexual experience / Nikolay Milkov
  • Desire and Arousal / Al Spangler
  • Wise woman versus manic man : Diotima and Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium / William O. Stephens
  • Wounded eros / Lee David Perlman
  • Self-respect and loving others / Barbara S. Andrew
  • Gender, justice within the family, and the commitments of liberalism / Robert F. Card
  • Comments on Robert Card's "Gender, justice within the family, and the commitments of liberalism" / Cindy Holder
  • IUDs, STIs, and DNA : reconsidering Hume's modesty proposal / Sheldon Wein
  • Commentary on Sheldon Wein's "IUDs, STIs, and DNA : reconsidering Hume's modesty proposal" / Jennifer Parks
  • Marital pluralism : making marriage safer for love / Eric M. Cave
  • Commentary on Eric M. Cave's "Marital pluralism : making marriage safer for love" / Wendy Lynne Lee
  • Embracing gayness with integrity / Carol V.A. Quinn
  • Comments on Quinn's "Embracing gayness with integrity" / Raja Halwani
  • Respons to Raja Halwani's comments / Carol V.A. Quinn
  • Sexual use and what to do about it : internalist and externalist sexual ethics / Alan Soble
  • Love and virtue / Raja Halwani
  • Commentary on Raja Halwani's "Love and virtue" / Marianne Janack
  • Marriage laws and gender discrimination : the anti-miscegnation analogy / John M. Orlando
  • Same-sex marrige and gender discrimination : a response to Orlando / Jo Trigilio
  • Jung and Plato on individualtion / Martha C. Beck
  • A response to Martha C. Beck's ":Jung and Plato on individualtion" / Ashley Pryor
  • Friendship amongst the self-sufficient : Epicurus / Andrew J. Mitchell
  • If friendship hurts, an Epicurean deserts : a reply to Andrew Mitchell / William O. Stephens
  • Dialectic of love and freedom : does it constitute a fifth form of love? / Caroline W. Meline
  • Love, freedom, and self-knowledge : a response to Meline / Barbara S. Andrew
  • Aristotelian love-making / Erik J. Wielenburg
  • Conscious experience, awkwardness, and virtue : reply to Wielenburg / Edward L .Abrams
  • Examining the bonds and bounds of friendship / Andrew I. Cohen
  • Comments on Andrew I. Cohen's "Examining the bonds and bounds of friendship" / Diane Jeske
  • Insights from the straight-jacket : epistemological concerns expressed by religiously motivated anti-queer sentiments / Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
  • Comments on Ludger Viefhues-Bailey's "Insights from the straight-jacket" / Carol V.A. Quinn
  • Temperance and sexual ethics / Raja Halwani
  • Comments on Raja Halwani's "Temperance and sexual ethics" / Carol V.A. Quinn
  • Transformation of the husband/wife relationship during exile : letters from Cicero and Ovid / Sabine Grebe
  • Separated spouses and equal partners : Cicero, Ovid, and marriage at a distance / William O. Stephens
  • Aristotle and Kant on self-knowledge and self-disclosure through friendship / Andrea Veltman
  • Comments onf Alan Soble's Pornography, sex, and feminism / Mane Hajdin
  • Pornography, dignity, and polysemicity : comments on Alan Soble's Pornography, sex, and feminism / Linda Williams
  • Comments on Alan Soble's Pornography, sex, and feminism / Kathleen J. Wininger
  • Exploring Sartrean desire : men, women, and authentic relationship / Betty Woodman
  • Sartrean desire : commentary on Woodman / Benjamin A. Gorman
  • Sexual liberalism and seduction / Eric M. Cave
  • Comments on Eric M. Cave's "Sexual liberalism and seduction / Mary MacLeod
  • Virtue and the value of affective transformation / Susan Stark
  • Affective transformation and the Kantian moral outlook : comments on Susan Stark / Karen Stohr.

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