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10The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2017.
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10The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2022.This is the 8th edition of the book, with eight new essays to the volume. Table of contents: Are We Having Sex Now or What? (Greta Christina); Sexual Perversion (Thomas Nagel); Plain Sex (Alan Goldman); Sex and Sexual Perversion (Robert Gray); Masturbation and the Continuum of Sexual Activities (Alan Soble); Love: What’s Sex Got to Do with It? (Natasha McKeever); Is “Loving More” Better? The Values of Polyamory (Elizabeth Brake); What Is Sexual Orientation? (Robin Dembroff); Sexual Orientation: …Read more
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5Review of Love’s Confusions, by C. D. C. Reeve (review)Essays in Philosophy 7 (1): 146-157. 2006.
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5Union, Autonomy, and ConcernIn Roger E. Lamb (ed.), Love Analyzed, Westview Press. pp. 65--92. 1997.
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4Irving Singer, The Nature of Love, Volume 3. The Modern World Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 8 (2): 74-76. 1988.
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11. Deception and Informed Consent in ResearchBioethics: Basic Writings on the Key Ethical Questions That Surround the Major, Modern Biological Possibilities and Problems. forthcoming.
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1Pornography: Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of SexualityStudies in Soviet Thought 37 (1): 37-38. 1989.
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1Masturbation and the Continuum of Sexual ActivitiesIn Raja Halwani, Jacob M. Held, Natasha McKeever & Alan G. Soble (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 69-93. 2022.Some philosophical accounts imply that masturbation is inferior sexual activity. Against this, Soble argues that masturbation is central. Relying on the physical-anatomical indistinguishability of sexual act-types, he derives a Zeno-style paradox about sexual activity: either all sexual activity (even ordinary coitus) is masturbatory or none of it is (not even solitary masturbation). Soble argues for the first horn of the dilemma, thus ensuring that solitary masturbation is a member of the conti…Read more
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1Vetterling-Braggin, Mary, ed., "Sexist Language: A Modern Philosophical Analysis" (review)Ethics 93 (n/a): 212. 1982.
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Sexual UseIn Raja Halwani, Jacob M. Held, Natasha McKeever & Alan G. Soble (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 395-421. 2022.In this essay, Soble addresses the various attempts in the philosophical literature to solve the "Kantian sex problem"—people's mere instrumental use of each other (and allowing themselves to be used as such by others) during sexual activity and the diminishing of one's sexual rationality and autonomy when experiencing sexual desire. The problem won't be solved by denying Kant's account of sexuality or the validity of his Formula of Humanity, but by fashioning a sexual ethics consistent with Kan…Read more
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Desire: Paraphilias and Distress in DSM-IVIn Jennifer Radden (ed.), The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion, Oup Usa. 2007.
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Sexual Gifts and Sexual DutiesIn Raja Halwani, Jacob M. Held, Natasha McKeever & Alan G. Soble (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 8th edition, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 539-556. 2022.Relying on a sexual encounter that he had once while in graduate school, Soble explores in this essay two important and under-explored ideas in sexual ethics. The first is whether there are sexual duties to others (including, even especially, to strangers), and what the source of such duties might be. He provides good reasons, rooted in both religious and secular thought, for believing that such duties exist. The second is whether there are supererogatory sexual actions—sexual actions that go be…Read more
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J. Van Herik, "Freud on femininity and faith"International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 22 (1/2): 99. 1987.
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Irving Singer, The Nature of Love, Volume 3. The Modern World (review)Philosophy in Review 8 74-76. 1988.
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