Sandra Harding is working on the reconstruction of scientific objectivity. Lorraine Daston argues that objectivity is a concept that has historically evolved. Her account of the development of "aperspectival objectivity" provides an opportunity to see Harding's "strong objectivity" project as a stage in this evolution, to locate it in the history of migration of ideals from moral philosophy to natural science, and to support Harding's desire to retain something of the ontological significance of objectivity.

This is a detailed encyclopedia entry on sex and sexuality, explaining the main issues and debates in philosophy about them.

We will know that we are free when the pornography no longer exists.Je voudrais dans ce texte aborder les raisons d’une éventuelle politique législative relative aux effets de la pornographie – laquelle j’appellerai plutôt pollution pornographique, voulant suggérer par là qu’il s’agit d’effets touchant une partie importante de la société. Une politique..

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.).