Talk:Alan Soble

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Alan Soble provided me with a recent CV to help in creation of this article about him. If other editors would like to refer to this in deciding other details to include, feel free. Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 18:48, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Soble Bio

The below is additional material provided by Soble himself. Please incorporate into the article as you see fit. (Lulu of the Lotus-Eaters 05:36, 8 October 2005 (UTC))

Alan Gerald Soble (parents Sylvia Soble [from Camden and Atlantic City, New Jersey] and William Soble [Philadelphia, Pa.]) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 4, 1947. He received a B.S. in biology from Albright College (magna cum laude, 1969), and the M.A. in pharmacology (1972) and the Ph.D. in philosophy (1976) from the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1977, while an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, he founded The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, and he served as its director until 1992. He is now Professor of Philosophy and University Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans, and the recipient in 1998 of the U.N.O. Alumni Association's Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Research.

Soble is the author of Pornography, Sex, and Feminism (Prometheus, 2002), The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction (Paragon House, 1998), Sexual Investigations (New York University Press, 1996), The Structure of Love (Yale University Press, 1990), and Pornography: Marxism, Feminism, and the Future of Sexuality (Yale University Press, 1986). He is the editor of Sex, Love, and Friendship (Rodopi, 1997), The Philosophy of Sex (Rowman and Littlefield, 1st edition, 1980; 2nd edition, 1991; 3rd edition, 1997; 4th edition, 2002), and Eros, Agape, and Philia: Readings in the Philosophy of Love (Paragon House, 1989; corrected and reprinted, 1999). His essays in ethics, philosophy of the social sciences, social and political philosophy, and love and sexuality have appeared in the journals Metaphilosophy, Social Epistemology, The Monist, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Social Theory and Practice, Apeiron, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Social Philosophy, and International Journal of Applied Philosophy. His reviews have appeared in Ethics, Journal of Value Inquiry, Canadian Philosophical Reviews, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, International Journal for the Philosophy of Religion, and Teaching Philosophy. He wrote the "Sexuality and Sexual Ethics" entry for the Encyclopedia of Ethics (Garland, 1992; 2nd edition, Routledge, 2001), the "La Morale Sexuelle" entry for the Dictionnaire de philosophie morale (Presses Universitaires de France, 1996); the "Sexuality, Philosophy of" entry for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1998); and the "Philosophy of Sexuality" entry for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2000): <http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/s/sexualit.htm>.

The recipient of a Fulbright Teaching grant for 1991-92, Soble spent the academic year in Hungary teaching philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of love and sex at Eötvös Loránd University and the Budapest Technical University. During that year, he wrote two essays, "A Szexualitás Filozófiájáról" ("The Philosophy of Sex"), Magyar Filozófiai Szemle (Hungarian Philosophical Review), 1992; and "Egyesülés és Jóakarat" ("Union and Concern"), Athenaeum (1994); both were translated into Hungarian by Módos Magdolna, and the latter was extensively revised for publication in Roger Lamb, ed., Love Analyzed (Westview, 1997).

His daughters Rebecca Jill and Rachel Emöke were born in 1969 and 1993. Pictures of Rebecca and Rachel, as well as scans of Rachel's art, her comic strips, and her first book, can be found on this web site. He welcomes comments on his writings at asoble@uno.edu. He is currently working on Immanuel Kant's metaphysics and ethics of sexuality. One piece of this puzzle has been published as "Sexual Use and What To Do About It: Internalist and Externalist Sexual Ethics," Essays in Philosophy 2:2 (2001), at <http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/soble.html>; a revised and expanded version can be found in his Philosophy of Sex, 4th edition. Another piece, "Kant and Sexual Perversion," was published in The Monist 86:1 (2003).

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Alan Gerald Soble' (born 1947) is an American philosopher and author of several books on the philosophy of sex.

Soble was born to William and Sylvia Soble in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 4, 1947. He graduated in 1969 from Albright College with a B.S. in Biology. He completed his M.A. in Pharmacology at University at Buffalo in 1972, then went on at the same university to attain a Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1976.

Early in his professional career, Soble wrote papers in areas of Ethics and Epistemology. In the late 1970s he began to help articulate the fledgling specialty of the "Philosophy of Sex." He also founded The Society for the Philosophy of Sex & Love; its proceedings were published as Sex, Love, and Friendship.

In subsequent years, Soble has edited or written many works in this field. In late 2005 he completed the central reference work in the philosophy of sex, Sex from Plato to Paglia. Some of his essays on sexuality, love, and science have been translated into French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hungarian, and Chinese.

He was University Research Professor at the University of New Orleans, from 1986 to 2006, but left New Orleans after his home was destroyed by the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina. He is now Professor Emeritus of UNO and teaches in the Philadelphia area. The fifth edition (27 years after the first) of his The Philosophy of Sex appeared in July, 2007. He is currently turning his attention to conceptual, political, and psychological issues that arise in the study of postal history, especially that of Central Europe from right before World War I to right after World War II.

LotLE×talk 21:56, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 May 2014

Please change: He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of New Orleans. to: He taught at the University of New Orleans from 1986 to 2006. He is currently Adjunct Professor of philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia, where he has been teaching since March 2007.

Reason for change: Replacement is much more accurate and up-to-date. Reference: I am Alan Soble, the subject of the entry. You may check with me at Drexel: ags38@drexel.edu or you may ask David "Lulu of the Lotus Eaters" Mertz for verification. Thanks!

Alanrachelsoble (talk) 22:21, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

Not done: We cannot accept requests of this nature from persons claiming to be the article subject mainly because Wikipedia has been fooled by persons impersonating article subjects. However, since the requested edit is not contentious or controversial in nature, if you can point us to a CV hosted on an official university website someone might be amenable to making the requested edit. Alternatively, go to Wikipedia:Contact us - Subjects and follow the instructions for emailing the Wikimedia Foundation from an email address that can be verified as belonging to Alan Soble, and the volunteers there may be able to help you out. —KuyaBriBri^Talk 23:36, 23 May 2014 (UTC)

I've taken care of it - I've used Drexel University as a source, and we already had a source for the time at New Orleans. Thank you for letting us know of the need for an update. - Bilby (talk) 00:46, 24 May 2014 (UTC)