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The Philosophical Richness and Variety of Sex and Love
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Special Issue "The Philosophical Richness and Variety of Sex and Love"

A special issue of Philosophies (ISSN 2409-9287).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2023 | Viewed by 5897

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Raja Halwani

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School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60603, USA
Interests: philosophy of sex and love; moral, social, and political philosophy; political philosophy; philosophy of art

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The philosophy of sex and love (including non-romantic kinds) is a growing area of research, and it is fast on its way to becoming a recognized separate field in philosophy. Both sex and love are important for human beings, and our ability to understand and handle them well is necessary if we are to live well-lived lives. Both sex and love are varied and raise a myriad of conceptual, analytical, ethical, aesthetic, legal, and pracitical issues (among others) that lend themselves to philosophical inspection. Moreover, sex and love can be discussed together or separately (an interesting philosophical question in itself), or in connection with issues surrounding various forms of relationships.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute essays to a special issue of Philosophies, titled “The Philosophical Richness and Variety of Sex and Love.” The aim of the special issue is to demonstrate the fecundity of the philosophy of sex and love by publishing original papers spanning the breadth of this topic. Research areas might include, but are by no means limited to: the nature of sexual desire; the relationship between sexual desire and moral character; the ethics of sexual activity; the nature and ethics of sexual orientation; the various forms of love; love and morality; sex and technology; pornography; sex work; love and technology; the relationship between sex and love; consent; objectification; sex and emotions; sex and virtue; love and virtue; love and other emotions; sex and/or love and gender; sex and/or love and race; sex and/or love and feminism; sex and/or love and aesthetics; or the nature and ethics of relationships. Submissions may, of course, draw on other fields of philosophy, and on non-philosophical fields.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Raja Halwani
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a double-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Philosophies is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • friendship love
  • parental love
  • relationships
  • romantic love
  • sexual activity
  • sexual desire
  • sexual orientation

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Prolegomena to the Study of Love
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Alan Soble
Philosophies 2023, 8(3), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8030044 - 17 May 2023
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Consider this propositional function which includes the dyadic predicate “loves”: “X does not love Y unless Y loves X” (or “if Y does not love X”). This function may be treated in four ways. (1) If universally quantified, it states [...] Read more.
Consider this propositional function which includes the dyadic predicate “loves”: “X does not love Y unless Y loves X” (or “if Y does not love X”). This function may be treated in four ways. (1) If universally quantified, it states a (purported) conceptual truth about “love” or the nature or essence of love. Love is necessarily reciprocal. (2) If universally quantified, it may alternatively be a nomological generalization stating an empirical or factual truth about human nature, i.e., about a pattern of reciprocity that occurs among people who are independently identified as lovers. (3) If instantiated with constants, it is an empirical proposition about the attitudes or behaviors of particular individuals (a, b, c). Finally, (4) the function may be treated axiologically; it expresses a normative judgment about what love ought to be or what lovers ought to feel or do. Other propositional functions may be constructed for the constancy, exclusivity, and benevolence of love. This essay investigates the implications of these understandings of the function and how they are logically related to each other. Full article
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Should We Want to Be Loved Unconditionally and Forever?
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Troy Jollimore
Philosophies 2023, 8(2), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8020034 - 31 Mar 2023
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People often say that romantic love should be unconditional, and they often want romantic love to last forever. These claims and desires are presumably linked: part of the reason it would be good for love to be unconditional is that it is assumed [...] Read more.
People often say that romantic love should be unconditional, and they often want romantic love to last forever. These claims and desires are presumably linked: part of the reason it would be good for love to be unconditional is that it is assumed that such love, being detached from changing conditions, would last forever. This article argues that there are, indeed, kinds of unconditional and permanent love that are worth wanting, but also kinds that are not, and attempts to clarify just what it is that is valuable about these kinds of romantic love. Full article
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Is Casual Sex Good for You? Casualness, Seriousness and Wellbeing in Intimate Relationships
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Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Philosophies 2023, 8(2), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8020025 - 13 Mar 2023
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Enduring romantic love is highly significant for our wellbeing, and there is much scientific evidence for its value. There is also evidence that marital sex is important for the flourishing of wellbeing for both partners. Casual sexual relationships and experiences (CSREs) are often [...] Read more.
Enduring romantic love is highly significant for our wellbeing, and there is much scientific evidence for its value. There is also evidence that marital sex is important for the flourishing of wellbeing for both partners. Casual sexual relationships and experiences (CSREs) are often characterized in a non-normative way, as sexual behavior occurring outside a committed romantic relationship. However, the prevailing normative description is negative, perceived as superficial behavior that harms our wellbeing. Although sexual activities are linked to many psychological and physical health benefits, these are rarely attributed to casual sex. Instead, scholars and laymen have warned against the negative consequences of non-committed sex, particularly for women. Yet, positive reactions to casual sex, such as satisfaction, confidence, self-knowledge and social engagement, are stronger and more common than negative reactions. Accordingly, the two major aims of this article are to understand the complexity of CSREs better, and to substantiate the claim that in various circumstances, CSREs contribute to our wellbeing. Full article
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Beyond Consent: On Setting and Sharing Sexual Ends
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Jordan Pascoe
Philosophies 2023, 8(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8020021 - 07 Mar 2023
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This paper formulates a response to standard accounts of Kantian sexual morality, by first clarifying why sex should be understood as a case of using a person as a thing, rather than merely as a means. The author argues that Kant’s remedy to [...] Read more.
This paper formulates a response to standard accounts of Kantian sexual morality, by first clarifying why sex should be understood as a case of using a person as a thing, rather than merely as a means. The author argues that Kant’s remedy to this problem is not sexual consent, but a model of setting and sharing sexual ends. Kant’s account of sexual morality, read in this way, is a critical framework for contemporary moves to think beyond consent, and to grapple with concerns about sexual violation and “bad sex” that have gained uptake in the wake of the MeToo movement. The author defends an account of sex as a process of setting and sharing sexual ends in a Kantian key, which provides us with resources for thinking about the robust ongoing project of making our sexual selves in nonideal conditions, as well as for identifying the wrongs of both “bad” sex and sexual harassment. In doing so, they offer a critical middle ground between contemporary accounts of sexual morality that center questions of individual agency or autonomy, and those that foreground the intersubjective nature of sex. Full article
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Review of the “Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality”
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Raja Halwani
Philosophies 2023, 8(2), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8020030 - 24 Mar 2023
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This paper is a review essay of the recently published Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, edited by Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, and Lori Watson (2022). The anthology consists of an introduction and 40 essays, and it has eight [...] Read more.
This paper is a review essay of the recently published Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality, edited by Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, and Lori Watson (2022). The anthology consists of an introduction and 40 essays, and it has eight parts: (I) What Is Sex? Is Sex Good?; (II) Sexual Orientations; (III) Sexual Autonomy and Consent; (IV) Regulating Sexual Relationships; (V) Pathologizing Sex and Sexuality; (VI) Contested Desires; (VII) Objectification and Commercialized Sex; and (VIII) Technology and the Future of Sex. The anthology contains essays mostly by philosophers and a few by non-philosophers (which can be a double-edged sword for a philosophy book). Some essays survey a topic, while others defend specific theses. I argue that the quality of the essays varies, but that all are thought-provoking. Although the essays that deal with sexual orientation and race tend to be on the weaker side, those that deal with technology, objectification, incest, pedophilia, sex work, and the regulation of relationships are on the strong side. Full article
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