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Mark Phelan

Mark Phelan is a Professor of Philosophy at Lawrence University. His work focuses on the philosophies of mind, language, and cognitive science.

Mark Phelan is a Professor of Philosophy at Lawrence University. His work focuses on the philosophies of mind, language, and cognitive science.

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The Sex Lives of Philosophers

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What Do You Do When You're Alone

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Being With Others

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Filipa Melo Lopes

Simone de Beauvoir on incel extremism

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Prostitution and the Right to Choose

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The Boundaries of the Body

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Sex, Lies and Revolution

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The Phenomenology of Desire and Orgasm

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Zhana Vrangalova on The Science of Good Sex

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Why Sexual Morality Doesn't Exist

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On Being Naked and Having Sex

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Catherine Brown

Literary Bad Sex

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The Politics of Pleasure

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Decoupling sex

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Porn and the sexual imagination

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Yasmin Benoit,Saffron Morter-Laing

The Sexuality of Asexuality

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Love is close to madness

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The unexpected intimacy of sex work

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Melissa Rees,Jonathan Ichikawa

The limits of consent

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Science gets sexual experience dangerously wrong