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    Sexual Orientations, Sexual Preferences, and Well-Being.Raja Halwani - 2023 - Social Theory and Practice 49 (3):463-489.
    A common belief is that, among our sexual dispositions, sexual orientations are important and deep features of who someone is. This distinguishes them from other sexual dispositions—“mere” preferences—that are thought to be trivial in comparison. Is there a way to adequately account for this distinction? What is a plausible explanation for the belief that sexual orientation is a deep and important feature of who one is? This paper defends one necessary condition for a sexual disposition to be an orientation, the (...)
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  2. Care Ethics and Virtue Ethics.Raja Halwani - 2003 - Hypatia 18 (3):161-192.
    The paper argues that care ethics should be subsumed under virtue ethics by construing care as an important virtue. Doing so allows us to achieve two desirable goals. First, we preserve what is important about care ethics. Second, we avoid two important objections to care ethics, namely, that it neglects justice, and that it contains no mechanism by which care can be regulated so as not to be become morally corrupt.
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  3. Sex and Sexuality.Raja Halwani - 2018 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Sexual Exclusion and the Right to Sex.Raja Halwani - forthcoming - Theoria.
    Philosophers have recently expressed interest in the question as to whether there is a right to sex, a right whose justification is motivated by the existence of sexually excluded people—people who suffer from involuntary long-term sexual deprivation (owing, say, to a chronic medical condition). This paper, after offering preliminary remarks about what a right to sex and its objects might be and who might have this right, surveys seven justifications for the right: linkage arguments, need, well-being, a minimally decent life, (...)
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  5. The Sexual Pleasure View of Sexual Desire.Raja Halwani - 2020 - Philosophical Papers 49 (1):107-137.
    This paper defends the ‘sexual pleasure view’ of sexual desire—that sexual desire is for sexual pleasure. It does so by explaining the various aspects of the view, especially that of ‘sexual pleasure’ on which it relies, by explaining its important implications, by responding to various objections against it (that it relies on an impoverished notion of pleasure, e.g.), and by arguing against some of its main contenders (that sexual desire is for sexual activity, e.g.).
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  6. (1 other version)Racial Sexual desires.Raja Halwani - 2017 - In Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 181-199.
    The paper addresses the issue of whether there is something morally defective with someone who sexually prefers members of a particular race or ethnic group (or someone who does not sexually desire or prefer members of a particular race or ethnic group). People with such “racial desires” are often viewed as racists, but virtually no sustained arguments have been given in support of this view. The paper reconstructs three possible arguments—those based in discrimination, exclusion, and stereotypes—that might support the charge (...)
     
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  7. (1 other version)Casual Sex, Promiscuity, and Objectification.Raja Halwani - 2017 - In Raja Halwani, Alan Soble, Sarah Hoffman & Jacob Held (eds.), The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings, 7th edition. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 401-420.
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    Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction.Raja Halwani - 2010 - New York: Routledge.
    How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together “like a horse and carriage”? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how important are love, sex, and marriage to a well-lived life? In this lively, lucid, and comprehensive textbook, Raja Halwani pursues the philosophical questions inherent in these three important aspects of human relationships, exploring the nature, uses, and ethics of romantic love, sexuality, and marriage. The book is structured in three parts: (...)
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    Virtuous Liaisons: Care, Love, Sex, and Virtue Ethics.Raja Halwani - 2003 - Chicago, USA: Open Court.
    The book address three central areas of our life—care, love, and sex—from the perspective of virtue ethics. The first chapter on care argues that care should be considered a virtue and embedded within virtue ethics. The second chapter on love argues that romantic love is not a virtue as other philosophers have claimed, but that the virtues enable its best forms. And the third chapter on sex investigates Aristotelian temperance, and it argues that contrary to conservative views of the virtue (...)
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    Temperance and Eating Meat.Raja Halwani - 2020 - Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 33 (3):401-420.
    This paper provides an account of the Aristotelian virtue of temperance in regards to food, an account that revolves around the idea of enjoying the right objects and not enjoying the wrong ones. In doing so, the paper distinguishes between two meanings of “taking (or not taking) pleasure in something,” one that refers to the idea of the activity and one to the experience of the activity. The paper then connects this distinction to the temperate person’s attitude towards enjoying the (...)
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  11. The Ethics of Sexual Pleasure.Raja Halwani - 2022 - In David Boonin (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 37-54.
    This papers explains the sexual pleasure view of sexual desire, and argues that the moral evaluation of sexual pleasure depends on the moral evaluation of the sexual activity on which the pleasure supervenes. Thus, ethical talk of sexual pleasure as such, regardless of the type of activity on which it supervenes is misguided. The essay also argues that the ethics of sexual desires also depends on the sexual activities that the desires seek, but that the sexual desires and pleasures can (...)
     
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  12. Sexual Ethics.Raja Halwani - 2017 - In Nancy E. Snow (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Virtue. Oxford University Press. pp. 680-699.
    The essay explores sexual temperance in Aristotle's work and connects it to issues in sexual ethics.
     
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  13. Love and Sex.Raja Halwani - 2024 - In Christopher Grau & Aaron Smuts (eds.), "Introduction" for the Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Love. NYC: Oxford University Press.
    This chapter argues that sex and love are quite different from each other. Specifically, it argues that sexual desire is different kind of entity from romantic love, especially when the latter is understood as the settled abiding commitment between long-term partners. It also explores the normative connections (moral permissibility, obligation, and supererogation) between non-romantic forms of love—friendship, familial, and agapic love—and sexual desire, as this is an under-researched area. Furthermore, the essay argues that sexual desire’s goals clash with the goals (...)
     
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    Sex and Sexuality, updated and revised.Raja Halwani - 2023 - Stanford Encyclopledia of Philosophy.
    This is an entry that covers the basic issues in the philosophy of sex and sexuality, both conceptual and normative. It is a revised and updated version from the 2018 entry.
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  15. Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and the History of Homosexuality.Raja Halwani - 1998 - Journal of Homosexuality 35 (1):25-51.
     
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  16. What is gay and lesbian philosophy?Raja Halwani, Gary Jaeger, James S. Stramel, Richard Nunan, William S. Wilkerson & Timothy F. Murphy - 2008 - Metaphilosophy 39 (4-5):433-471.
    Abstract: This essay explores recent trends and major issues related to gay and lesbian philosophy in ethics (including issues concerning the morality of homosexuality, the natural function of sex, and outing and coming out); religion (covering past and present debates about the status of homosexuality and how biblical and qur'anic passages have been interpreted by both sides of the debate); the law (especially a discussion of the debates surrounding sodomy laws, same-sex marriage and its impact on transsexuals, and whether the (...)
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  17. Sexual Temperance and Intemperance.Raja Halwani - 2006 - In Sex and Ethics: Essays in Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life. Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 122-133.
    Explores what Aristotelian sexual temperance and intemperance are.
     
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  18. (1 other version)Virtue ethics and adultery.Raja Halwani - 1998 - Journal of Social Philosophy 29 (3):5-18.
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    The Palestinian Right of Return.Raja Halwani - 2021 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 35 (1):65-82.
    The paper argues that individual Palestinians have a right of return to historic Palestine in virtue of being members of the Palestinian people that continues to have occupancy rights in historic Palestine. More specifically, the paper argues that the Palestinians were, when Israel was founded, a people with occupancy rights to their lands, that they continue to be a people to this day, and that their occupancy right has not been alienated, forfeited, or prescripted. The paper then argues that individual (...)
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  20. Wit.Raja Halwani & Elliot Layda - 2013 - In S. van Hooft, N. Athanassoulis, J. Kawall, J. Oakley & L. van Zyl (eds.), The handbook of virtue ethics. Durham: Acumen Publishing.
    The essay explores arguments for and against wit being a virtue, and finds the latter more compelling.
     
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  21. Are One Night Stands Morally Problematic?Raja Halwani - 1995 - International Journal of Applied Philosophy 10 (1):61-67.
  22. Chastity.Raja Halwani - 2013 - In Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics. Hoboken, NJ: Blackwell.
     
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  23. Comments on Quinn's "Embracing gayness with integrity".Raja Halwani - 2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi.
     
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    Ethicism, interpretation, and munich.Raja Halwani - 2009 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 26 (1):71-87.
    abstract The paper, using Spielberg's Munich as a test case, argues that the theory of ethicism – the view that a work of art's moral point of view affects the work's overall aesthetic evaluation – has serious restricted applicability owing to a number of reasons. Ethicism does not apply to works of art (1) that have no moral content; (2) that do have moral content but whose prescribed responses are non-moral; (3) whose prescribed moral responses do not ask the audience (...)
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  25. Love and Integrity.Raja Halwani - 2022 - In Arina Pismenny & Berit Brogaard (eds.), The Moral Psychology of Love. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield. pp. 213-230.
    This paper focuses on the relationship between love (romantic, friendship) and moral integrity. More specifically, it looks into the conditions that need to be satisfied for the two to conflict with each other. After giving a general characterization of moral integrity and explaining some crucial moral aspects of love, both culled from the literature on integrity and on love, I provide two cases of couples whose love clashes with their integrity, one of a vegan in love with a non-vegan, and (...)
     
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  26. Love and virtue.Raja Halwani - 2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi.
     
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    Literary Ethics.Raja Halwani - 1998 - The Journal of Aesthetic Education 32 (3):19.
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    Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love, by Simon Blackburn.Raja Halwani - 2015 - Teaching Philosophy 38 (1):120-124.
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    Outing and virtue ethics.Raja Halwani - 2002 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 19 (2):141–154.
    The paper argues that the two dominant approaches towards the moral issues surrounding outing are too weak to handle the latter’s complexity and would benefit from being made part of a broader and richer framework, namely, that of virtue ethics. One dominant approach begins by arguing that people do not have the right to privacy in matters of sexual orientation (not behaviour), and so outing gay people does not violate such a right. It con- tinues by arguing that living a (...)
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  30. Philosophy of Love, Sex, and Marriage: An Introduction, second edition. Routledge, 2018.Raja Halwani - 2018 - New York: Routledge.
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  31. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics of Sexual Identity: Recasting the Essentialism and Social Constructionism Debate.Raja Halwani - 2006 - In Linda Alcoff (ed.), Identity politics reconsidered. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan. pp. 209--27.
     
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    Queer philosophy: presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, 1998-2008.Raja Halwani, Carol Viola Anne Quinn & Andy Wible (eds.) - 2012 - New York, N.Y.: Rodopi.
    The book is a collection of the presentations of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy from 1998 to 2008. The essays are organized historically, starting in 1998. Their topics cover virtually every philosophical field, and such that each is connected to gay and lesbian studies. Topics include how we are to understand sexual orientation, whether same-sex leads to polygamy, teaching gay studies to undergraduates, promiscuity and virtue, the "war on terror" and gay oppression, the rationality of coming out, the (...)
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  33. Sex.Raja Halwani - 2016 - In James M. Petrik & Arthur Zucker (eds.), Philosophy: Sex and Love. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Macmillan Reference USA. pp. 29-52.
    Explores the nature and morality of sexual desire and its connection to romantic love and to gender. It relies on the movie Elles to do so.
     
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  34. Sex and Ethics: Essays in Sexuality, Virtue, and the Good Life.Raja Halwani (ed.) - 2006 - Palgrave-Macmillan.
  35. Sex and Sexual Orientation, Gender and Sexual Preference.Raja Halwani - 2023 - Journal of Controversial Ideas 3 (2):doi: 10.35995/jci03020003.
    On what we can call the “folk” conception of sexual orientation, sexual orientation is understood as sex-based attraction, that is, as (partly) attraction on the basis of the perceived sex of the person to whom one is attracted. However, in recent discussions, philosophers have either added gender to sex as the basis of sexual orientation, or have altogether replaced sex with gender. Moreover, this addition or replacement has gone—mostly—unargued for. This paper argues that a sex-based conception of sexual orientation remains (...)
     
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  36. Sexual Temperance and Sexual Objectification.Raja Halwani - 2021 - In Eric J. Silverman (ed.), Sexual Ethics in a Secular Age: Is There Still a Virtue of Chastity? Routledge. pp. 153-167.
    The paper discusses Kant's view of sexual desire in connection with Aristotle's account of sexual temperance, arguing that if the Kantian view is correct, the Aristotelian account is false (or that if the Aristotelian account is true, then the Kantian view is false). One cannot be both an Aristotelian and a Kantian about the ethics of sexual desire.
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  37. Temperance and sexual ethics.Raja Halwani - 2011 - In Adrianne McEvoy (ed.), Sex, Love, and Friendship: Studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1993-2003. New York, NY: Rodopi.
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    The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Philosophical Essays on Self-Determination, Terrorirsm, and the One-State Solution.Raja Halwani & Tomis Kapitan - 2007 - Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.
    The book contains four chapters, each dealing with a central topic to the conflict: self-determination (by Kapitan), the right of return of Palestinian refugees (by Halwani), terrorism (by Kapitan), and the one-state solution (by Halwani).
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    The morality of love.Raja Halwani - 2005 - The Philosophers' Magazine 29 (29):54-57.
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    The philosophy of sex: contemporary readings.Raja Halwani, Jacob M. Held & Natasha McKeever (eds.) - 2017 - Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.
    With twenty-five essays, eight of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena.
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  41. The Philosophy of Sex, 8th edition.Raja Halwani (ed.) - 2022 - Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield.
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  42. Virtuous Misanthropes.Raja Halwani - forthcoming - Journal of the American Philosophical Assocation.
    Recent discussions of misanthropy consider misanthropy to be at core cognitive, consisting of the judgment that humanity is a failure. If this judgment is justified, one question is whether one can be both a misanthrope and virtuous. This paper argues that cognitive misanthropes can adopt a sympathetic outlook on humanity which is a necessary step for being virtuous. This is because the sympathetic misanthrope requires the virtue of practical wisdom, a special virtue in being either necessary or necessary and sufficient (...)
     
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    (6 other versions)The Philosophy of Sex: Contemporary Readings.Nicholas P. Power, Raja Halwani & Alan Soble (eds.) - 1980 - Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Featuring twenty-nine essays, thirteen of which are new to this edition, this best-selling volume examines the nature, morality, and social meanings of contemporary sexual phenomena. Topics include sexual desire, masturbation, sex on the Internet, homosexuality, transgender and transsexual issues, marriage, consent, exploitation, objectification, rape, pornography, promiscuity, and prostitution.
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    Introduction to The Philosopher as Public Intellectual.Raja Halwani - 2002 - Metaphilosophy 33 (5):495-501.
    This introductory essay offers a general survey of some of the conceptual and normative issues that arise with respect to the philosopher as a public intellectual, arguing that philosophers should be public intellectuals. It also briefly introduces the themes of the essays that follow.
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    Review of the “Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality”. [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - 2023 - Philosophies 8 (2):30.
    This paper is a review essay of the recently published _Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality_, edited by Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, and Lori Watson (2022). The anthology consists of an introduction and 40 essays, and it has eight parts: (I) What Is Sex? Is Sex Good?; (II) Sexual Orientations; (III) Sexual Autonomy and Consent; (IV) Regulating Sexual Relationships; (V) Pathologizing Sex and Sexuality; (VI) Contested Desires; (VII) Objectification and Commercialized Sex; and (VIII) Technology and the Future (...)
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    Review of Love’s Vision, by Troy Jollimore. [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - 2014 - Essays in Philosophy 15 (2):314-322.
  47. Review of "The Routleddge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality". [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - 2023 - Philosophies 8 (2):Essay 30.
    This is a lengthy review (a review essay) of "The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Sex and Sexuality" (2022), edited by Brian D. Earp, Clare Chambers, and Lori Watson.
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  48. Review of Srinivasan's "The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twentieth Century". [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - forthcoming - Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy.
    A brief review of Amia Srinivasan's book _The Right to Sex_.
     
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    Robot Sex: Social and Ethical Implications. John Danaher Neil MacArthur The MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, and London, 2017. 314 pp., includes index. ISBN 9780262036689. $40. [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - forthcoming - Bioethics.
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    Terrorism. [REVIEW]Raja Halwani - 2006 - Social Theory and Practice 32 (2):289-310.
    This is a review essay of Igor Primoratz's edited collection on terrorism ("Terrorism: The Philosophical Issues"; Palgrave Macmillan 2004).
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