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PHILOS 2ZZ3

PHILOSOPHY OF LOVE AND SEX

Undergraduate

Fall 2025 · C01

Readings

  • Materials Available Through Library Ereserves
    Ereserves · Required
Fall 2025 · C01

Topics

  • Sept 2/3: What is love? Also, who cares? bell hooks, All About Love (excerpt) Irving Singer, “Appraisal and Bestowal”
  • Sept 23/24: Friendship Cathy Mason, “Epistemic Partialism” Jen Nguyen, "A True Friend Stabs You in The Front"
  • October 1: Queer love David Halperin, “Queer love” E. Díaz-León, "Sexual Orientation, Sexual Desires, and Choice"
  • Oct 28/29: Desire Tressie McMillan Cottom, “In the Name of Beauty” Tom O'Shea, "Sexual Desire and Structural Injustice"
  • Nov 4/5: Racial Fetishization Robin Zheng, “Why Yellow Fever Isn’t Flattering” Raja Halwani, “Racial Sexual Desires”
  • Dec 2/3: TBD + Exam review

Readings

  • Beyond Speech
    Mari Mikkola · 2017 · Required
    Oxford · ISBN 9780190257910
  • The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy
    Adrienne M. Martin · 2019 · Required
    Routledge · ISBN 9780367659639
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