Events from 1977 to 1992

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SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1977, Washington, D. C.

  • Jerome A. Shaffer, University of Connecticut, “Sexual Desire”

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 27, 1978, Washington D. C.

  • Donald Levy, Brooklyn College, City Univerity of New York, “The Definition of Love in Plato’s Symposium”
  • Comments by Frederick Elliston, State University of New York, Albany
  • Chair: Alan Soble, Southern Methodist University

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1978, Washington D. C.

  • Jacqueline Kinderlehrer, College of St. Catherine, “Masturbation and Women’s Sexuality”
  • Comments by Deborah Rosen, University of New Orleans
  • Chair: Christine Pierce, State University of New York, Oswego

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 23, 1979, San Diego

  • H. Phillips Hamlin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “The Ethics of Seduction”
  • Comments by Mary Anne Warren
  • Hugh T. Wilder, College of Charleston, “The Language of Sex and the Sex of Language”
  • Comments by Flo Leibowitz, Oregon State University, “Professor Wilder on Sexuality”

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1979, New York

  • Topic: Why Sex and Love are Philosophically Interesting
  • Ann Garry, California State University, “Why Are Love and Sex Philosophically Interesting?”
  • Comments by Sandra Harding, University of Delaware, “Why Are Love and Sex Philosophically Interesting? A Response to Ann Garry”
  • Chair: Susan Rae Peterson

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1979, New York

  • Topic: Sociobiology and Homosexuality
  • Michael Ruse, University of Guelph, “Are There Gay Genes? Sociobiology and Homosexuality”
  • Comments by Lee Rice, Marquette University, “Hatching Your Genes Before They’re Counted”
  • Chair: Donald Levy

SPSL session at the Western Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 26, 1980, Detroit

  • Robert Pielke, George Mason University, “Are Androgyny and Sexuality Compatible?”
  • Comments by Maryellen MacGuigan, Mercy College
  • Robert Ehman, Vanderbuilt University, “Sex Between Adults and Children”
  • Comments by Marilyn Frye, Michigan State University
  • Chair: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1980, Boston

  • Eric Hoffman, State University of New York, Fredonia, “Love as a Kind of Friendship”
  • Comments by Donald Levy, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, “Response to Hoffman”
  • Chair: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1980, Boston

  • Susan Rae Peterson, “Feminism, Marxism, and Reproduction”
  • Comments by Sara Ann Ketchum
  • Chair: Alison Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1981, Philadelphia

  • Richard D. Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, “A Non-liberal Argument for Gay Rights”
  • Comments by Jacqueline Zita
  • Chair: Lee Rice, Marquette University

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1981

  • Rolf Johnson, Western Connecticut State College, “Love, Passion, and the Need to Be Loved”
  • Comments by Carol Caraway, Chatham College
  • Chair: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 25, 1982, Sacramento

  • Symposium: “Women as Sex-Objects”
  • Linda LeMoncheck, California State University, Long Beach, “Treating Women as Sex Objects”
  • Comments by Richard C. Richards, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, “LeMoncheck on Sex Objectification”
  • John Sullivan, “Women as Sex Objects: Some Reflections”
  • Comments by Ann Garry, University of Delaware, “Reflections on ‘Women as Sex Objects'”
  • Chair: Carl Cohen, University of Michigan Residential College

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1982, Baltimore

  • John McMurtry, University of Guelph, “Sex, Love and Friendship”
  • Comments by Jo-Ann Pilardi, Towon State University, “Commentary on McMurtry’s ‘Sex, Love and Friendship'”
  • Chair: Irving Singer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1982, Baltimore

  • Deborah Rosen, University of New Orleans, and John Christman, Virginia Polytehnic and State University, “Toward and Beyond a New Model of Sexuality”
  • Comments by Mary Ann Carroll, Appalachian State University
  • Chair: Russell Vannoy, State University of New York, Buffalo

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 25, 1983, Oakland

  • Sandra Bartky, University of Illinois, Chicago, “Masochism and the Politics of Personal Transformation”
  • Comments by Richard Wasserstrom, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • Chair: Julie Murphy, University of Santa Clara

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1983, Boston

  • Roger Paden, George Mason University, “Abortion and Sexual Morality”
  • Comments by Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1983, Boston

  • Marjorie Weinzweig, “Should a Feminist Choose Marriage?”
  • Comments by Hugh Wilder, College of Charleson
  • Chair: William Vitek, Clarkson University

SPSL session a the Western Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 26, 1984, Cincinnati

  • Russell Vannoy, State University of New York/Buffalo, “Can Sex Express Love?”
  • Comments by Edward Johnson, University of New Orleans, “Last Tango in Buffalo”
  • Lee Rice, Marquette University, “A Spinozistic Account of Sexuality”
  • Comments by Rhoda Kotzin, Michigan State University
  • Chair: Carol Caraway, Chatham College

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1984, New York

  • Leonard J. Berkowitz, Pennsylvania State University, York, “Sex: Plain and Symbol”
  • Comments by Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin, “The Symbolic Significance of Sex and the Institution of Sexuality”
  • Chair: Bernard Baumrin, City University of New York, Graduate Center

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 22, 1985, San Francisco

  • Charles W. Johnston, Utah State University, “Body Language”
  • Comments by Fred Elliston, University of Hawaii
  • M. C. Dillon, State University of New York, Binghamton, “Sex, Time, and Love: Erotic Temporality”
  • Comments by Diane P. Michelfelder, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, “Eros and Human Finitude”
  • Chair: Donald Blakeley, California State University, Fresno

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1985, Washington D. C.

  • Speaker: Mark Fisher, Middlesex Polytechnic and California State University, Hayward, “Love as Process”
  • Comments by William Alexander
  • Neera Kapur Badhwar, University of Oklahoma, “Friends as Ends in Themselves”
  • Comments by Alan Soble, University of New Orleans, “Friends as Nerds in Themselves”
  • Chair: Russell Vannoy, State University of New York at Buffalo

SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, May 1, 1986, St. Louis

  • Russell Vannoy, State University of New York at Buffalo, “The Structure of Sexual Perversion”
  • Comments by William Vitek, City University of New York, Graduate Center
  • Carol Caraway, Spartanburg College, “Romantic Love: Neither Sexist Nor Heterosexist”
  • Comments by Dana E. Bushnell, Tulane University, “Love Without Sex: A Commentary on Caraway”
  • Chair: Brenden Liddell, Bradley University

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1986, Boston

  • Stephen M. Fishman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “Marital Friendship: A Redefinition of Romance”
  • Comments by Hilde Lindemann Nelson and James Lindemann Nelson, both of University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “A Reply to Professor Fishman’s ‘Marital Friendship'”
  • Jane Duran, University of California, Santa Barbara, “Physiological Communication and Intentional Ramification”
  • Comments by Bernard Baumrin, City University of New York, Graduate Center
  • Chair: Edward Vacek, Boston College

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 26, 1987

  • Topic: Special Session on AIDS
  • Christine Pierce, North Carolina State, Raleigh, “AIDS and Bowers v. Hardwick”
  • Comments by Richard Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Chair: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 28, 1987

  • Topic: Special Session on AIDS
  • Bonnie Steinbock, State University of New York, Albany, “Harming, Wronging and AIDS,”
  • William Irvine, Wright State University, “Should AIDS Victims Be Quarantined?”
  • Comments by David J. Mayo, Universit of Minnestoa, Duluth, Commentary on Steinbock and Irvine on AIDS”
  • Chair: Ann Garry, California State University, Los Angeles

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1987, New York

  • Tenth Anniversary Presidential Address: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans, “On the Coherence of Love”

SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 28, 1988, Cincinnati

  • Gene Fendt, Kearney State College, “Is Works of Love a Work of Love?”
  • Comments by Steven M. Emmanuel, University of California, Riverside, “Response to Mr. Fendt”
  • T. F. Morris, American University, “Kierkegaard on Despair in Works of Love”
  • Chair: Sylvia Walsh, Clark College

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1988, Washington, D. C.

  • Topic: Symposium on Roger Scruton’s Sexual Desire
  • Edward Johnson, University of New Orleans, “Scrutinizing Sexual Desire”
  • Dan Sullivan, “Scruton on Sexual Desire”
  • Comments by David James
  • Chair: Anthony F. Beavers, Marquette University

SPSL session at the Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, March 23, 1989, Berkeley

  • M.C. Dillon, State University of New York at Binghamton, “Sexual Norms and the Burden of Sexual Literacy
  • Anthony J. Graybosch, Central State University, “Which One Is the Real One?”
  • Comments by Richard C. Richards, California State Polytechnic, University Pomona, “Graybosch on Love”
  • Chair: David Adams, California State Polytecnhic University, Pomona

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1989, Atlanta

  • Timo Airaksinen, University of Helsinki, “The Style of Sade: Sex, Text, and Cruelty”
  • Comments by Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, “Repetition and Revulsion in the Marquis de Sade”
  • Chair: Alan Soble, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 26, 1990, New Orleans

  • Brendan Liddell, Bradley University, “Can There Be Duties of Love?”
  • Comments by Harvey Green, Tulane University
  • Steven G. Smith, Millsaps College, “The Attractions of Gender”
  • Comments by Nancy Snow, Marquette University
  • Chair: Norton Nelkin, University of New Orleans

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 29, 1990, Boston

  • David B. Annis, Ball State University, “Intimacy, Friendship, and Autonomy”
  • Comments by Alan Soble, University of New Orleans
  • Natalie Dandekar, “Eros, Romantic Illusion, and Political Opportunism (Symposium 178-180)”
  • Comments by Carol Gould, Florida Atlantic University, “Response to Professor Dandekar’s Analysis of Phaedrus’s Praise of Eros”
  • Chair: Carol Caraway

SPSL session at the Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, April 25, 1991, Chicago

  • Joseph Kupfer, Iowa State University, “The Power of Love, the Impotence of Infatuation”
  • Comments by Art Stawinski, Health Charge Corporation
  • Comments by Lee Horvitz, Miami University of Ohio, “Commentary on Kupfer”
  • Chair: James Rizik, Northeastern Illinois University

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Meeting, December 29, 1991, New York

  • Justin Leiber, University of Houston, “Pornography, Art, and the Origins of Consciousness”
  • Comments by Lenore Langsdorf, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
  • Chair: Rosemarie Tong

SPSL session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, December 28, 1992, Washington, D. C.

  • Sylvia Walsh, Stetson University, “Desire and Love in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or”; Diane Michelfelder, “California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Rationality and the Intimacies of Our Lives”
  • Chair: Ann Garry

SPSL was founded and directed by Alan Soble of the University of New Orleans from 1977 to 1992. Papers delivered at Society meetings between 1977 and 1992 are collected together in a volume edited by Soble: Sex, Love, and Friendship (Rodopi, 1997; order here).

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