The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings Paperback - 2007

Nicholas Power is associate professor of philosophy at the University of West Florida (in Pensacola, Florida) and has published on the philosophy of science and of mind as well as evolutionary theory. Now teaching courses in the philosophy of sex and love, of science, and of mind, and chairing a department of philosophy and religious studies, he received his dissertation from Temple University, hails originally from Kilkenny, Ireland, the city of Berkeley and Swift, and shares their scatalological outlook. His two daughters, Hannah (b. 1992) and Molly (b. 1998), don't. Alan Soble, who has taught the philosophy of sex and love more than fifty times in his career, is Professor Emeritus and University Research Professor of the University of New Orleans, from which he retired in 2007. Now teaching the philosophy of sex and love, and other courses, as an adjunct at several schools, he is the editor of the 2-volume Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2006) and author or editor of another dozen books on sex and love. Some of his journal articles and book chapters have been reprinted abroad, translated into German, Hungarian, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Chinese. After Katrina in August 2005, he and his daughters scattered: Rebecca Jill (b. 1969) has been spending time in the Middle East, mostly in Turkey, while Rachel Emoke (b. 1993) resettled in Milwaukee. Many of Soble's articles and reviews can be found on his web site, http: //fs.uno.edu/asoble, and some of his provocative views about sex and love are expressed in his contributions to Amherst College's question-and-answer web site, AskPhilosophers.org, for which he serves as a panelist.