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Ingrid Albrecht, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Moral psychology; love; ethics; Kant; Hume
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Raymond W. Aldred, McGill University
Metaethics; bioethics; philosophy of disability; philosophy of mind; epistemology
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David J. Anderson, Texas A&M University
Wittgenstein, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion
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Scott Anderson, University of British Columbia
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Matt Andler, University of Virginia
Philosophy of gender and sexuality; social philosophy; feminist philosophy
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Erik Anderson, Furman University
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Jami Anderson, University of Michigan Flint
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Barbara S. Andrew, William Paterson University
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Anastasia Babash, University of Tartu, Estonia
Cyberlove and cybersex; ethics; feminist philosophy; philosophy of technology
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Richard Baffoe-Djan, researcher and matchmaker
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Alison Bailey, Illinois State University
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Omar Bachour, Queen’s University
Moral and political philosophy; Kantian ethics; critical theory; philosophy of sex and love
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Alexa Baiano, Independent Scholar
Human nature, the senses, and their relation to sexuality
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Hans Bakker, University of Guelph
Peirce, semiotics, media representations of sex and love
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Peter Banki, University of Western Sydney
Sex/philosophy; the politics of reconciliation; forgiveness and cultural trauma
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Steve Barbone, San Diego State University
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Mathieu Baril, McGill University
Moral Psychology; ethics; philosophy of sex and love; feminism
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Guri Barstad, Universitetet i Tromsø
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Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, University of Haifa, Israel
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Stefano Bigliardi, AUI – Al Akhawayn University
Religion and science
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Deirdre Black, Duquesne University
Plato; Kierkegaard; Kafka; love; education
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Kurt Blankschaen, Boston University
Social/political philosophy; feminist philosophy; philosophy of language
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Kristen Blinne, University of South Florida
Narrative and poetic inquiry; performing love and sexuality
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Elizabeth Brake, Arizona State University
Marriage; parenthood; feminist ethics; political philosophy
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Samantha Brennan, University of Western Ontario
Normative ethics; feminist ethics; sexual ethics; children’s sexual agency
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Thom Brooks, University of Newcastle
Feminism; Kant and Hegel; multiculturalism
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Stephen Bujno, Alma Mater Europaea
Love, phenomenology and personagenesis
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Ida Bukkestein
Autonomy in sex, love, and sadism
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Luke Brunning, University of Oxford
Ethics broadly construed; philosophy of emotion; philosophy of sex and love
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Carol Caraway, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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Sonia Cancian, Zayed University
Transnational migration; correspondence; gender and women’s studies; love and sex
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Robert F. Card, State University of New York, Oswego
Normative ethics; social and political philsosophy, rationality and rational choice, erotic love; marriage, sexual seduction
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Deen Chatterjee, University of Utah
Political uses of love; Alain Badiou; Erich Fromm; Franz Fanon; “deviant” love (incest, interracial relationships, queer Love, et al.)
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Clare Chambers, University of Cambridge
Feminism; political philosophy; marriage; beauty, body, and surgery
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Myisha Cherry, John Jay College
Howard Chiang, University of Warwick
History and historical epistemology of biology, medicine, and the human sciences; gender and sexuality in modern China
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Justin Clardy, Stanford University
Moral philosophy; philosophy of love; social & political philosophy; political emotions; Black sexuality; non-monogamy
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W. Mark Cobb, Bucks County Community College
Eros; the Freudian left; Freudo-Marxism; Marcuse; aesthetics; ethics; social and political philosophy
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Andrew Cohen, Georgia State University
Intimate discrimination; sexual attraction and aversion; gay, asexual, and inter-racial marriage
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Shari Collins, Arizona State University at the West Campus
Business ethics, environmental ethics, reproductive ethics, and philosophy of sex and love
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James Conlon, Mount Mary College
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Brandon Cooke, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Aesthetics; ethics
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Matthew S. Cooper, South Mountain Community College
Epistemology; history and philosophy of Sex; religious extremism; fundamentalism and antifundamentalism
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Timothy Cowan, Lone Star College
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Alyssa Cortez, San Jose State University
Philosophy of love, sex, hip hop and education; feminist metaphysics; epistemology; ethics
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Chris Crasto, Independent Scholar
Love, sex, gender and relationships
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Amanda Juico Dela Cruz, De La Salle University
Feminist theory, Philosophy of sex, Aesthetics and art theory, and Philosophy and literature
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Jason Cruze, Biola University
Philosophy of religion; metaphysics; moral responsibility; sex; love; agency
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Elena Cuffari, Worcester State University
inactive philosophy of mind and language, embodiment, gesture studies, feminist philosophy, philosophy of love and sex, history of modern philosophy
Emmanuel Cuisinier, Concordia University
phenomenology and intersubjectivity in experiences of love and sexuality
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Joseph G. D’Ambrosio, University of Louisville
Theories of love; marriage and cohabitation
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Claus Damgaard, Independent Scholar
Early modern philosophy; classic pragmatism; gender issues
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Tracy R.W. de Boer, University of Victoria
Sexual identity; human rights
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Elyx Desloover, University of Montreal
Trans studies; queer theory; philosophy of gender & sexuality; feminism; epistemology; literary theory; poetics; philosophy of language; performativity; continental philosophy.
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Tom Digby, Springfield College
Philosophy of love and sex; cultural militarism; feminist philosophy
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Dan Demetriou, University of Minnesota, Morris
Ethics, Social-Political
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Cristian Dimitriu, University of Toronto
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Zeynep Direk, Koç University
Psychoanalysis; feminism; philosophical perspectives on gender
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Gwendolyn Dolske, Loyola Marymount
Moral Theory, Continental Thought, Philosophy of Literature
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Taine Duncan, University of Central Arkansas
Critical theory; feminism; critical whiteness studies; history of continental philosophy
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Jonathan Fabella, University of St Andrews
Aesthetics/philosophy-of-art, nineteenth-century European philosophy
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Yiftach J. H. Fehige, University of Toronto
Metaphysics of human sexuality; new phenomenology of human sexuality [Hermann Schmitz], gay marriage and Roman-Catholic doctrine
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Naas Ferreira, University of Pretoria
Gnosticism; myths; Sexuality as a way to enlightenment
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Rafael Leopoldo A S Ferreira, Independent Scholar
Critical Theory; Freudian psychoanalytic theory; philosophy of sexuality
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Lisa Folkmarson Käll, Uppsala University
Ethics; philosophy of Love; existentialism and personal Identity
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Sarah S. G. Frantz, Fayetteville State University
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Ann Garry, California State University, Los Angeles
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Malak Ghattas, Vision International University, Ca-Kuwait campus
Love; sex; gender studies; beauty; Counselling & psychotherapy, love & sex relationships, cognitive therapy, logotherapy, gender affairs
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Deirdre Golash, American University
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Alexandra Golikov, Independent Scholar
Sexual ethics; environmental ethics
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Lyle John Goodwin, Independent Scholar
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Brandon Gordon, Kent State University
Ethics; philosophy of religion; erotic love
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Jessica Gosnell, St. Ambrose University
The nature of basic relationship terms and the issue of consent
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Rebecca Gould, University of Birmingham
Global philosophies of sex and love (especially Persian); feminist theory; aesthetics
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Christopher Grau, Clemson University
Ethics; metaphysics; film; love (especially irreplaceability)
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Sara Green, Franciscan University of Steubenville
Feminist theory; love studies; Jónasdóttir’s theory of love power; Roy Bhaskar’s philosophy of meta-reality
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Mane Hajdin, Santa Clara University
Metaethics; applied ethics; philosophy of law; social and political Philosophy
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Raja Halwani, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Charles Hebert
Conceptual problems; political and ethical matters; the history of the philosophy of sex and love; feminist theory
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Andreas Heise
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Jacob Held, University of Central Arkansas
Legal and political philosophy; 19th century German philosophy; critical social Theory; applied ethics
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Shriniwas Hemade, Pune University
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Lowell E. Herr, Cal Poly Pomona
Feminism, Social Political Philosophy
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Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta
Existentialism; phenomenology; ethics of religion; philosophy of film; philosophy of mathematics
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Jiří Hoblík, Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic
History of religion; ethics; philosophy of religion
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Cindy Holder, University of Victoria
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Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa, University of British Columbia
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Ada Jaarsma, Sonoma State University
Feminist philosophy and feminist theory; queer theory and gender studies; existentialism; critical theory; 19th and 20th century continental philosophy
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Brennan Jacoby, Independent Scholar
Moral Psychology; ethics; the philosophy of trust
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Marianne Janack, Hamilton College
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Rolf Johnson, Western Connecticut State University (Emeritus)
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John Kaiser Ortiz, Millersville University
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Robin Bradley Kar, University of Illinois College of Law
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Lara Karaian, Carleton University
Teenage sexting and child pornography; ‘revenge porn’; accidental incest and ‘technology facilitated’ incest; virtual rape; ‘self-exploitation’; queer pornography; risk management; (self)surveillance; pregnant men and anti-discrimination law; transgender human rights; third wave feminisms.
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Hani Karawan, Independent Scholar
Philosophy and psychology of love
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Bryan Kimoto, University of Memphis
20th-century Continental philosophy; queer theory; social and political philosophy; transgender studies
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John Kleinig, John Jay College, CUNY Graduate Center & Australian National University
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Peggy Kleinplatz, University of Ottawa
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Sudarshan R Kottai, Jindal School of Psychology and CounsellingMental health marginalised/ minority population, sexuality, gender and mental health, philosophy of psychiatry
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Anil Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Eloy LaBrada, University of Alberta
Social metaphysics; analytic philosophy of gender and sexuality; analytic feminism; metaphysics of love
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Sarah LaChance Adams, University of Wisconsin, Superior
19th and 20th century continental philosophy; ethics; feminism; philosophical psychology
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Colin Lambert, tlgconsulting
Abraham Maslow; electricity and energy; tantra; BDSM; the relationship between sex, love, and friendship
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Rosan Larizza, Jacksonville, Florida
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James HP Lewis, University of Birmingham
Ethics, Aesthetics, Interpersonal Relations
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Shawn Loht, Tulane University
Phenomenology; German philosophy; pre-Socratic philosophy; philosophy of film
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Peta-Ann Long, The University of the West Indies
Social and political philosophy; pragmatism and neo-pragmatism; ethics; applied ethics
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Brett Lunceford, University of South Alabama
Rhetorical theory and criticism; new media and technology; social movement rhetoric; media ecology; rhetoric and democratic practice; theories of orality and literacy; pedagogical practice; gender performance; rhetoric of the body
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Alice MacLachlan, York University
Ethics (especially feminist ethics, virtue ethics, and moral psychology); social and political philosophy
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Katarina Majerhold, Faculty of Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Philosophy of love; emotions and sexuality; practical philosophy and ethics
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Ania Malinowska, University of Silesia in Katowice
Popular culture; cultural theory; love; representation
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Qrescent Mali Mason, Temple University
Ethics; Simone de Beauvior; the erotic
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Patricia Marino, University of Waterloo, co-President of SPSL
Ethics; philosophy of sex and love; philosophy of economics
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Lily Martinez, University of Brasilia
The mechanism by which gender is culturally constructed; the context in which a political intent can be achieved.
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Eirini Martsoukaki, University of Toronto
Moral Psychology, Ethics, Philosophy of Action
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Cathy Mason, Central European University
Philosophy of love and friendship, Iris Murdoch, virtue theory
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Michael McCrocklin, Sex Therapist
Love, Christian ethics; psychology; sex therapy; sex offender therapy; sex education, ethics
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Rachel McKinnon, College of Charleston
Epistemology; metaphysics; decision theory; metaethics; gender identity
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Natasha Mckeever, University of Sheffield
French phenomenology; emotion theory; epistemology; feminist comparative philosophy; early modern philosophy
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Frankc Berlanga Medina, University of Arkansas
Sexuality; gender; queer theory; race, critical theory; Foucault; Derrida; deconstructionism
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Margus Waffa Meigo
love; love and nature
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Anna Mense, JLU Giessen, Germany
Social ontology of love, love as a capacity, deficient loving
relations, sex-positivity, language and sex, sex and tabooed discourse
Social ontology of love, love as a capacity, deficient loving
relations, sex-positivity, language and sex, sex and tabooed discourse
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Shaun Miller, Marquette University
philosophy of sex and love; existentialism; Schopenhauer
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Tony Milligan, University of Hertfordshire
Love, animal rights
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Brishti Modak, Presidency University, Kolkata
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Saad Mohammad, Independent Scholar
Plato, Platonic theory of love, Freudian psychoanalytic theory
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Richard Mohr, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Katie Monk, University of Cambridge and University of Leeds
Consent; love; gender; the intersection of these with philosophy of language
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Kevin Prescott Morris II, University of Arkansas,
Literary criticism; critical theory; philosophy of sex; Sartre; gender studies; black bodies and sexuality
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Charles Moser, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
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Vincent Mulier, Portland State University
Applied ethics; environmental ethics
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Amy Mullin, University of Toronto
Loving relationships between children and their caregivers (including but not limited to parents)
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Cecilea Mun
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Henry Muro, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Maja Niestrój, European University Frankfurt Oder, Berlin Practical Philosophy International Forum e. V.
Philosophy of language; philosophy of love and sex; pragmatism; erotic imagination, erotic intelligence; metaphors
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Zoheir Noaparast, University of Vienna
Epistemology; moral and political philosophy
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Richard Nunan, College of Charleston
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C. Shawn Oak, University of Louisville
Theories of intimacy; geriatric sexuality; alternative relationships; men’s/ masculine studies
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Jill Oliver, University of Waterloo
Philosophy of biology; philosophy of medicine; bioethics
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Olumide Okunmakinde
Philosophy of gender relations; the relationship between human and animal sexual psychology’
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Melissa Orlie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Jordan Pascoe, Manhattan College
Feminist philosophy; social and political philosophy; epistemology; decolonial philosophy; Kant
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Felipe Pereira, Seton Hall University
value theory, well-being, moral psychology, and metaphysics.
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Lee Perlman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Christian Perring, Dowling College
Love in contemporary western society
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Arina Pismenny, CUNY Graduate Center
Normative ethics; personal identity; romantic love
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Danielle Poe, University of Dayton
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Lindsey Porter, Lancaster University
Parental ethics; familial obligation; procreation
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John Portmann, University of Virginia
Moral philosophy; Roman Catholic sexual ethics; friendships between women and gay men; erotic chat rooms; dementia and sexuality; and US Supreme Court rulings regarding children, the family and marriage
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Nicholas Power, University of West Florida
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Tim Prezli, University of Ljubljana
sex education, culture and history of human sexulity, theoretical sexology, philosophy and theory of sex and gender, biology and evolution of sexuality
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Peter Rantaša, Univiersity of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Philosophy of technology; philosophy of cognitive science; philosophy of culture; philosophy of emotions
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Sal Renshaw, Nipissing University
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Bryan Register, University of Texas at Austin
Philosophy of mind; action, language; meta-ethics
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Scott Richardson, Millersville University
Intersections of power, agency, and performance (particularly gender, sexuality and schooling)
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Jeroen Rijnders, Utrecht University
sexual preferences and sexual development
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Pärttyli Rinne, University of St. Andrews
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Bassam Romaya, Temple University
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John Roman, Elon University
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António José Rosas, Independent Scholar
Contemporary notions of love; the relations between love, knowledge and personal fulfillment and empowerment
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T. Raja Rosenhagen, University of Pittsburgh
Epistemology; philosophy of perception (including moral perception), philosophy of language; indian philosophy, and philosophy of love, particularly Iris Murdoch
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Francey Russell, University of Chicago
Moral psychology, moral philosophy, Freud, Kant, aesthetics
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Patrick Salazar-Caso, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
Metaphysics; philosophy of religion; classical philology; philosophy of information; hyperreality; ancient philosophy; philology; doxography
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Hope Sanderlin, Kutztown University
Aristotle; Aquinas; sexual ethics; religion
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Alexander Scavone, California College, San Diego
Philosophy of love; philosophy of mind; metaphysics
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Masoume Shahgord, Azad University, Tehran Science and Research Branch
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Devora Shapiro, Community Faculty Metropolitan State University
Unspeakable and unspoken knowledge and its implications for epistemology, feminist theories, gender studies, critical race theories, affect and emotion, cultural studies
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Laurie Shrage, Florida International University
Political philosophy; feminist theory
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Pankaj Singh, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Deharadun, India
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Bronwyn Singleton
20th century continental philosophy (especially phenomenology); feminism; virginity, sexual difference; biopolitics; technology
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Roberto Sirvent, Hope International University
Philosophy of love; Christian social ethics; law and religion
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Patrick Smith, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Alan Soble
On SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=2110669; On PhilPapers: http://philpapers.org/s/soble
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Ronald de Sousa, University of Toronto
Love and friendship in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy; sexual ethics
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James Sterba, University of Notre Dame
Applied philosophy; biomedical ethics; philosophy of love and sex; philosophy and literature
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Silvia Stoller, University of Vienna
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Jason Stotts, Independent Scholar
Sexual ethics; Eudaimonism; philosophy of emotions; philosophy of psychology
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Michael Strawser, University of Central Florida
Metaethics; normative ethics; feminism
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Ronald Suter, Michigan State University, Emeritus
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Nicola Tams, University of Freiburg
Philosophy of friendship; correspondence; philosophy of sex and love;
postcolonial philosophy; art and love
postcolonial philosophy; art and love
Martin Thibodeau, Saint-Paul University & Bishops University
Hegel; Kant; German idealism; social and political philosophy; ethics; aesthetics; philosophy of religion
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Brian Thomas, University of California, Riverside
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Chloë Taylor, McGill University
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Vitali Turenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
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Philosophy of sex and erotica; hermeneutics; critical theory; environmental philosophy; philosophy of food; social-political philosophy; philosophy of technology
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Sari M. van Anders, University of Michigan
Social neuroendocrinology; intimacy & sexuality; gender/sex Sexual diversity; feminist neuroscience; evolution, health, feminist science studies, queer science
Stan van Hooft, Deakin University, Australia
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Jason van Niekerk, University of Pretoria
African philosophy; normative ethics; African communitarianism and homophobia/heterosexism
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Helga Varden, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, co-President of SPSL
Legal and political philosophy; feminist philosophy; history of political thought; ethics; Kant; applied ethics
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Tyler Viale, Boston College
Philosophy of eros; phenomenology; Platonism and neo-Platonism
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Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Yale University
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Andrew John Vierra, Georgia State University
Philosophy Of Sexuality, Neuroethics
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Jason Waller, Eastern Illinois University
Modern philosophy; legal philosophy; ethics; social and political philosophy (including gender and sexuality)
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Caleb Ward, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
Ethics; phenomenology; feminist theory
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Justin Weinberg, University of South Carolina
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Shelley Weinberg, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Early modern philosophy
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Dan Werner, SUNY New Paltz
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Richard White, Creighton University
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Nancy M. Williams, Wofford College
Feminist philosophy; ethical Theory; animal ethics; social and political philosophy
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Cory Wimberly, University of Texas Pan American
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Matthew Wion, Marquette University
Feminist philosophy; social epistemology; ontology; as these apply to gender, race, and sexuality
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Nicole Wyatt, University of Calgary
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Elif Tuğçe Yasin, Independent Scholar
Feminist philosophy, feminist epistemology, gender and women’s studies and phenomenology
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Aaron Ben Ze’ev, University of Haifa
Study of emotions, romantic love, and moral psychology.
Edward Zeauskas, Hood College
Third wave pro-sex movement; concept of love; history of sex; anti-heros of feminism; fetishism and social constraints
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Robin Zheng, University of Michigan
Ethics; moral psychology; social and political philosophy
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Zorianna Zurba, Ryerson University and York University
Intimacy; love; film-philosophy; the representation of affect
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