Alan Soble

University of New Orleans

Emeritus Professor

2000 Lakeshore Drive

New Orleans, LA 70148

United States

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1.

The Philosophy of Sexuality

"The Philosophy of Sexuality," from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, (2009)
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 18 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Sexuality, Ethics, Consent, Healthy Sexuality, Perversion, Natural Law, Kant, Thomas Nagel, Edward Laumann, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Augustine

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Bad Apples: The Influence of Politics on Scholarship

Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29:3 (1999), pp. 354-88
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 20 Oct 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Politics and Scholarship, Feminist Epistemology, Susan Bordo, Sandra Harding, Rae Langton, Women's Knowledge, M. Belenky, Florida Rape Case, Pornography

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Union, Autonomy, and Concern

In: Roger Lamb, ed., Love Analyzed (Westview Press, 1997), pp. 65-92.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Feb 2014
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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love as union, merging, benevolence, robust concern, eros, philia, agape, autonomy, Immanuel Kant, G. F. W. Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Robert Nozick

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A History of Erotic Philosophy

Journal of Sex Research 49:2-3 (2009), pp. 104-120, Annual Review of Sex Research Vol. XVIII (2008)
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Adam & Eve, Aquinas, Augustine, Desire, Freud, Homosexuality, Kant, Love, Philosophy, Plato, Sexuality, Temperance, Virtue

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Kant and Sexual Perversion

Alan Soble, "Kant and Sexual Perversion." The Monist 86:1 (January 2003), pp. 55-89.
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 11 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Immanuel Kant, Roger Scruton, Vorlesung, Metaphysics of Morals, Sexuality, Perversion, Homosexuality, Masturbation, Imagination, Formula of Humanity, Natural Law, Thomas Aquinas, Suicide

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Alan Soble's Review of 'The Reasons of Love' by Harry Frankfurt: 'Love and Value, Yet Again'

Essays in Philosophy 6:1 (January 2005)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 13 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Love, Value, Beauty, Augustine, Hume, Kant, Susan Wolf, Agape, Eros, Concern, Affection, Plato, Aristotle

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Correcting Some Misconceptions About St. Augustine's Sex Life

Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 11, No. 4. (October 2002), pp. 545-569.
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Augustine, Sexuality, Promiscuity, Christian Ethics, Homosexuality, Bisexuality, John Boswell, Confessions, Garry Wills, Peter Brown, Everyman, Marjorie Garber

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Sexual Use and What to Do About it

Essays in Philosophy 2:2 (June 2001), Alan Soble, ed., 'The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings', 4th Edition (2002), pp. 225-258, Alan Soble and Nicholas Power, eds., 'The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings', 5th Edition (2008), pp. 259-288
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Immanuel Kant, sexuality, sexual ethics, objectification, marriage, Second Formulation, Formulation of Humanity, Thomas Mappes, Alan Goldman, Martha Nussbaum

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Sexual Activity

"Activity, sexual," in A. Soble, ed., Sex from Plato to Paglia, Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 15-25.
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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sexual activity, having sex, desire, satisfaction, pleasure, perversion, reproduction and procreation, STDs, Edward Laumann, William Clinton, Monica Lewinsky

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The Unity of Romantic Love

'The Unity of Romantic Love,' Philosophy and Theology 1:4 (1987), 374-97; A. Soble, ed., Sex, Love, and Friendship (Rodopi, 1997), 385-401.
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 17 Feb 2014
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Romantic love, admiration, desire, sexuality, reciprocity, monogamy, exclusivity, constancy, passion, union, explanatory unification, philosophical method, Georg Simmel, J.-J. Rousseau

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Physical Attractiveness and Unfair Discrimination

International Journal of Applied Philosophy 1:1 (Spring 1982), pp. 37-64
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Nov 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Discrimination, Race, Gender, Beauty, Attractiveness, Douglas Willard, Friedrich Engels

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Antioch's 'Sexual Offense Policy': A Philosophical Exploration

Journal of Social Philosophy 28:1 (1997), pp. 22-36
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Rape, Date and Acquaintance Rape, Consent, Communication, Pineau, Antioch Policy, Body Language, Estrich, MacKinnon

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Masturbation and the Continuum of Sexual Activities

Philosophy of Sex, 8th edition, 2022 (Rowman)
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Sex, Sexual Activity, Masturbation, Zeno, Alan Goldman

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Sexual Gifts and Sexual Duties

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 30 Sep 2019
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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sexual ethics, gifts, duties, Christian Agape, sexual consent

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Review of Joan McGregor: Is It Rape? On Acquaintance Rape and Taking Women's Consent Seriously

Law and Philosophy 25:6 (2006), pp. 663-672
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Rape, Forced Sex, Sex without Consent, Joan McGregor, Joel Feinberg, Stephen Schulhofer, Fraud in the Inducement

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Final Words (2022) on Sexual Use

Philosophy of Sex, 8th edition, 2022 (Rowman)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Sexual use, sexual manipulation, sexual objectification, autonomy, love, mutuality, marriage

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In Defense of Bacon

Noretta Koertge, ed., A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science (Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 195-215, Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25:2 (1995): 192-215
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Francis Bacon, King James I, Sandra Harding, Feminist Epistemology, Carolyn Merchant, Evelyn Fox Keller, Rape Metaphors, Robin Morgan

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Sexual Duties, Sexual Supererogation

"Sexual Duties, Sexual Supererogation," in Scott Stein, ed., The 33rd, vol. 6 (2013), pp. 243-49.
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 06 Dec 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Sexual duty, Sexual obligation, Sexual supererogation, St. Paul, Elizabeth Anscombe, Marriage debt, Ad remedium concupiscentiae, Sexual harassment, Stalking

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Keller on Gender, Science, and McClintock: A Feeling for the Orgasm

This essay appears in Cassandra L. Pinnick, Noretta Koertge, and Robert F. Almeder, eds., Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology: An Examination of Gender in Science, pp. 65-101 (Rutgers University Press, 2003)
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Keller, McClintock, science, philosophy, masculinity, feminist epistemology, objectivity

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The Natural, the Social, and Historical Materialism

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 46:1 (1985), pp. 139-154
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 31 Oct 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Human nature, socialization, social constructivism, sexuality, reification, historical materialism, Marx, Engels, J. S. Mill, Freud

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Sexual Completeness

"Completeness, Sexual," from Alan Soble, Sex from Plato to Paglia. Greenwood Press, 2006, pp. 179-184.
Number of pages: 5 Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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incompleteness, ejaculation, fertilization, resolution, psychological mutuality, perversion, paraphilia, procreation, DSM, Thomas Nagel, Thomas Aquinas

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On the Sufficiency of Sexual Consent

IN: David Boonin, ed., The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics, pp. 287-299 (2022)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 02 Mar 2022
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Consent, Sexual Activity, Seiriol Morgan, Igor Primoratz, Informed Agreement

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Quit Your Kvetching: The Humor of Woody Allen

Essays in Philosophy, 12:2 (2011), pp. 345-362
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 24 Feb 2020
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Woody Allen, Vittorio Hosle, humor, sexuality, Problem of Evil, Jewish art and culture, philosophy of film, aesthetics

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The History of Sexual Anatomy and Self-Referential Philosophy of Science

"The History of Sexual Anatomy and Self-Referential Philosophy of Science," Metaphilosophy 34, #3 (April, 2003), pp. 229-49. Preprinted as "A szexus, az anatómia története és a reflexív tudományfilozófia" in Forrai Gábor and Margitay Tihamér, eds., Tudomány és Történet, Budapest: Typotex, 2002, pp.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Evelyn Keller, Feminist Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Biology, Duhem, Sexual Anatomy, Social Constructionism, Thomas Kuhn, Thomas Laqueur, W.V.O. Quine

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Love: The Conceptual, the Factual, the Normative

[out for review]
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 24 Jul 2021
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Love, Philosophy of Love, Metaphilosophy, Social Science of Love, Value of Love

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Social Science, Pornography, and Values

Social Epistemology 2:2 (1988), pp. 135-144, 1987
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 30 Oct 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Pornography, Rape, Robin Morgan, Social Science, Values & Science, Feminism, Joel Feinberg, Susan Brownmiller, Atlanta, Augustus Brannigan, Sheldon Goldenberg

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Concerning Self-Love: Analytic Problems in Frankfurt's Account of Love

Essays in Philosophy 12:1 (January 2011), pp. 55-67
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Love, Self-Love, Frankfurt, Reasons and Love

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Alan Soble's Review of C.D.C. Reeve, 'Love's Confusions'

Alan Soble: Review of "Love's Confusions" by C.D.C. Reeve; Essays in Philosophy 7:1 (January 2006)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 12 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2013
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Love, Sexuality, Agape, Eros, Freud, Nygren, Scruton, Solomon

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The Influence of USSR/Communism on the Post-WWII Czechoslovak Postal System

Czechout, No. 178, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 03 Feb 2020
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Czechoslovakia, Communism, USSR, Postal System

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More Thoughts about Sexual Duties and Gifts

Philosophy of Sex, 8th edition, 2022 (Rowman)
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Mar 2022
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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Sexual duties, sexual gifts, supererogation, sexual agape, sexual psychology, consent to sex

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Paraphilia and Distress in DSM-IV

In Jennifer Radden, ed., The Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Companion (Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 54–63.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 18 Apr 2022
Alan Soble
University of New Orleans
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DSM, perversion, paraphilia, sexual disorder, psychiatry of sex, distress, egodystonia, dysfunction, endogenous, unusual sexuality, homosexuality