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1972Sexual use and what to do about it : internalist and externalist sexual ethicsIn Adrianne Leigh McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003, Rodopi. pp. 2. 2011.I begin by describing the hideous nature of sexuality, that which makes sexual desire and activity morally suspicious, or at least what we have been told about the moral foulness of sex by, in particular, Immanuel Kant, but also by some of his predecessors and by some contemporary philosophers.2 A problem arises because acting on sexual desire, given this Kantian account of sex, apparently conflicts with the Categorical Imperative. I then propose a typology of possible solutions to this sex prob…Read more
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67Comments on “Good Sex on Kantian Grounds, or A Reply to Alan Soble,” or A Reply to Joshua SchulzEssays in Philosophy 8 (2): 296-300. 2007.
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21Quit Your Kvetching: The Humor of Woody Allen (review)Essays in Philosophy 12 (2): 346-363. 2011.
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897Loose Women, Lecherous Men (review)Teaching Philosophy 22 (4): 411-416. 1999.A review of Loose Women, Lecherous Men, by Linda LeMoncheck.
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437Women and Values (review)Teaching Philosophy 23 (2): 215-220. 2000.A review of the third edition of Women and Values, edited by M. Pearsall.
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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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11The Pornography of Representation (review)Philosophy of the Social Sciences 19 (1): 128-131. 1989.
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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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39Review of The Reasons of Love, by Harry G. Frankfurt (review)Essays in Philosophy 6 (1): 308-331. 2005.
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1316Review of Joan McGregor, Is It Rape? (review)Law and Philosophy 25 (6): 663-672. 2006.A critical review of a book on rape by Joan McGregor.
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1Pornography: Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of SexualityStudies in Soviet Thought 37 (1): 37-38. 1989.
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16799Kant and Sexual PerversionThe Monist 86 (1): 55-89. 2003.This article discusses the views of Immanuel Kant on sexual perversion (what he calls "carnal crimes against nature"), as found in his Vorlesung (Lectures on Ethics) and the Metaphysics of Morals (both the Rechtslehre and Tugendlehre). Kant criticizes sexual perversion by appealing to Natural Law and to his Formula of Humanity. Neither argument for the immorality of sexual perversion succeeds.
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105The Unity of Romantic LovePhilosophy and Theology 1 (4): 374-397. 1987.Romantic love is analyzed as including concern, admiration, the desire for reciprocity, exclusivity, and the passion for union. I argue that the passion for union is its central element. An analysis of “x admires y” which recognizes the intentionality of admiration is used to explain how romantic love practices turn out to be sexist. The analysis also shows that idealization is a special case of admiration, and is therefore not an essential part of romantic love.
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6157Gender, Objectivity, And RealismThe Monist 77 (4): 509-530. 1994.A detailed examination of the philosophy of science of Evelyn Fox Keller, with special emphasis on her account of "objectivity" and her understanding of the methodology of Barbara McClintock.
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35Sexual Use and What To Do About ItEssays in Philosophy 2 (2): 37-54. 2001.I begin by describing the hideous nature of sexuality, that which makes sexual desire and activity morally suspicious, or at least what we have been told about the moral foulness of sex by, in particular, Immanuel Kant, but also by some of his predecessors (e.g., Augustine) and by some contemporary philosophers. A problem arises because acting on sexual desire, given this Kantian account of sex, apparently conflicts with the Categorical Imperative. I then propose a typology of possible solutions…Read more
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51Review of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson, ed. Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker, and Ralph Wedgwood (review)Essays in Philosophy 4 (1): 70-75. 2003.
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23Additional readingIn Sex from Plato to Paglia: a philosophical encyclopedia, Greenwood Press. pp. 2--767. 2006.
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57Pornography and the social sciences: Reply to Brannigan and GoldenbergSocial Epistemology 2 (2). 1988.
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4650The History of Sexual Anatomy and Self-Referential Philosophy of ScienceMetaphilosophy 34 (3): 229-249. 2003.This essay is a case study of the self-destruction that occurs in the work of a social-constructionist historian of science who embraces a radical philosophy of science. It focuses on Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex: Body and Gender from the Greeks to Freud in arguing that a history of science committed to the social construction of science and to the central theses of Kuhnian, Duhemian, and Quinean philosophy of science is incoherent through self-reference. Laqueur's text is examined in detail in o…Read more
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