College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone: Philosophers With Benefits - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1444332945 ISBN 13: 9781444332940

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010

Synopsis

Written with insight and humor, College Sex - Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical issues relating to student sex.

• Examines the ethical issues of dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol use
• Considers student-teacher relationships, sexual experimentation, the meaning of sex in a college setting and includes two essays based on influential research projects on ‘friends with benefits’
• Many of the authors teach classes that explore the philosophy of love and sex, and most are scholars from the Society of the Philosophy of Sex and Love

About this title

From the Back Cover

Philosophy has a history of expanding wisdom to include more worldly affairs. Continuing this tradition, College Sex – Philosophy for Everyone investigates a broad array of philosophical and moral issues relating to the sexual practices of students. Within the unique social setting of college comes a varied assortment of sexual relations and experiments, ranging from the mutually respectful, to the inebriated, meaningless, and the degrading. So lay back and ponder:

• Do students’ sexual acts need to involve love in order to have value?
• Should college students avoid a “friends with benefits” relationship?
• Should we condone relationships between students and teachers?
• Why is college a socially acceptable space for experimentation?

Written with insight and humor, the essays shed light on sexual relations in college and examine a range of ethical issues, including: dating, cheating, courtship, homosexual experimentation, and drug and alcohol use, within the college setting.

About the Author

Editors
Michael Bruce currently works in the non-profit sector with at-risk youth. Previously, he was a teaching assistant at California State University, Chico, and received his Master’s degree from San Diego State University, specializing in continental philosophy. He has published articles in the pop culture and philosophy genre and is currently editing Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy for Wiley-Blackwell.

Robert M. Stewart is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Chico. He is the author of Moral Philosophy: A Comprehensive Introduction (1994), and editor of Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love (1995). He has published numerous journal articles.

Series Editor
Fritz Allhoff is an Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Western Michigan University, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University’s Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.  In addition to editing the Philosophy for Everyone series, Allhoff is the volume editor or co-editor for several titles, including Wine & Philosophy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Whiskey & Philosophy (with Marcus P. Adams, Wiley, 2009), and Food & Philosophy (with Dave Monroe, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1444332945
• ISBN 13: 9781444332940
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Bruce Michael, Stewart Robert M.