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1Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and the History of HomosexualityJournal of Homosexuality 35 (1): 25-51. 1998.
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428Sex and SexualityStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2018.This is a detailed encyclopedia entry on sex and sexuality, explaining the main issues and debates in philosophy about them.
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2SexIn James M. Petrik & Arthur Zucker (eds.), Philosophy: Sex and Love, Macmillan Reference Usa. pp. 29-52. 2016.Explores the nature and morality of sexual desire and its connection to romantic love and to gender. It relies on the movie Elles to do so.
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19Casual Sex, Promiscuity, and ObjectificationIn Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 401-420. 2017.
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20Racial Sexual desiresIn Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 181-199. 2017.The paper addresses the issue of whether there is something morally defective with someone who sexually prefers members of a particular race or ethnic group (or someone who does not sexually desire or prefer members of a particular race or ethnic group). People with such “racial desires” are often viewed as racists, but virtually no sustained arguments have been given in support of this view. The paper reconstructs three possible arguments—those based in discrimination, exclusion, and stereotype…Read more
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26Virtuous Liaisons: Care, Love, Sex, and Virtue EthicsOpen Court. 2003.The book address three central areas of our life—care, love, and sex—from the perspective of virtue ethics. The first chapter on care argues that care should be considered a virtue and embedded within virtue ethics. The second chapter on love argues that romantic love is not a virtue as other philosophers have claimed, but that the virtues enable its best forms. And the third chapter on sex investigates Aristotelian temperance, and it argues that contrary to conservative views of the virtue of t…Read more
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10The book contains four chapters, each dealing with a central topic to the conflict: self-determination (by Kapitan), the right of return of Palestinian refugees (by Halwani), terrorism (by Kapitan), and the one-state solution (by Halwani)
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2Sexual Temperance and IntemperanceIn Sex and Ethics: Essays on Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 122-133. 2007.Explores what Aristotelian sexual temperance and intemperance are.
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2Sexual EthicsIn Nancy Snow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtue, Oxford University Press. pp. 680-699. 2018.The essay explores sexual temperance in Aristotle's work and connects it to issues in sexual ethics.
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218What is gay and lesbian philosophy?Metaphilosophy 39 (4-5): 433-471. 2008.Abstract: This essay explores recent trends and major issues related to gay and lesbian philosophy in ethics (including issues concerning the morality of homosexuality, the natural function of sex, and outing and coming out); religion (covering past and present debates about the status of homosexuality and how biblical and qur'anic passages have been interpreted by both sides of the debate); the law (especially a discussion of the debates surrounding sodomy laws, same-sex marriage and its impact…Read more
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WitIn S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics, Acumen Publishing. 2014.The essay explores arguments for and against wit being a virtue, and finds the latter more compelling.
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24Introduction to The Philosopher as Public IntellectualMetaphilosophy 33 (5): 495-501. 2002.This introductory essay offers a general survey of some of the conceptual and normative issues that arise with respect to the philosopher as a public intellectual, arguing that philosophers should be public intellectuals. It also briefly introduces the themes of the essays that follow.
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2Temperance and sexual ethicsIn Adrianne Leigh McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003, Rodopi. 2011.
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3Sex and Ethics: Essays in Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2006.
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26Queer philosophy: presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, 1998-2008 (edited book)Rodopi. 2012.The book is a collection of the presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy from 1998 to 2008. The essays are organized historically, starting in 1998. Their topics cover virtually every philosophical field, and such that each is connected to gay and lesbian studies. Topics include how we are to understand sexual orientation, whether same-sex leads to polygamy, teaching gay studies to undergraduates, promiscuity and virtue, the "war on terror" and gay oppression, the rationality …Read more
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79Outing and virtue ethicsJournal of Applied Philosophy 19 (2). 2002.The paper argues that the two dominant approaches towards the moral issues surrounding outing are too weak to handle the latter’s complexity and would benefit from being made part of a broader and richer framework, namely, that of virtue ethics. One dominant approach begins by arguing that people do not have the right to privacy in matters of sexual orientation (not behaviour), and so outing gay people does not violate such a right. It con- tinues by arguing that living a dignified life requires…Read more
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67Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2010.How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together “like a horse and carriage”? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive textbook, Raja Halwani pursues the philosophical questions inherent in these three important aspects of human relationships, exploring the nature, uses, and ethics of romantic love, sexuality, and marriage. The book is struc…Read more
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism DebateIn Linda Alcoff (ed.), Identity Politics Reconsidered, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 209--27. 2006.
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23Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, by Simon BlackburnTeaching Philosophy 38 (1): 120-124. 2015.
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33Ethicism, interpretation, and munichJournal of Applied Philosophy 26 (1): 71-87. 2009.abstract The paper, using Spielberg's Munich as a test case, argues that the theory of ethicism – the view that a work of art's moral point of view affects the work's overall aesthetic evaluation – has serious restricted applicability owing to a number of reasons. Ethicism does not apply to works of art (1) that have no moral content; (2) that do have moral content but whose prescribed responses are non-moral; (3) whose prescribed moral responses do not ask the audience to accept or reject the m…Read more
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Love and virtueIn Adrianne Leigh McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003, Rodopi. 2011.
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102Care Ethics and Virtue EthicsHypatia 18 (3): 161-192. 2003.The paper argues that care ethics should be subsumed under virtue ethics by construing care as an important virtue. Doing so allows us to achieve two desirable goals. First, we preserve what is important about care ethics. Second, we avoid two important objections to care ethics, namely, that it neglects justice, and that it contains no mechanism by which care can be regulated so as not to be become morally corrupt.
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