Alan Soble
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters". Alan Gerald Soble (/ˈsoʊbəl/; March 4, 1947 – March 5, 2025) was an American philosopher and author of several books on the philosophy of sex. He taught at the University of New Orleans from 1986 to 2006. He was also an Adjunct Professor of philosophy at Drexel University in Philadelphia.[1]
Life
Soble was born in 1947[2] to William and Sylvia Soble in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[3] 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, becoming one of the founding scholars and leaders of the field.[4][5] In 1977, while at the University of Texas in Austin, he also founded the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, serving as the society's director from 1977 to 1992; the proceedings of the Society were published in 1997 as Sex, Love, and Friendship with Soble as editor.[6][7]
In subsequent years, Soble edited or wrote many works in this field. In late 2005 he completed the central reference work in the philosophy of sex, Sex from Plato to Paglia.
Alan Soble was Research Professor at the University of New Orleans from 1986 to 2006.[8]
Soble died on March 5, 2025 at his home in Philadelphia, PA.[9]
Selected publications
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Philosophy of Sex: contemporary readings, 6th edition. Rowman and Littlefield. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4422-1671-6.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (2008). The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction, 2nd edition, revised and expanded. Paragon House. ISBN 978-1-55778-875-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (2006). Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, (editor), 2 volumes. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-32686-X.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (2002). Pornography, Sex, and Feminism. Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-57392-944-1.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (1996). Sexual Investigations. New York University Press. ISBN 0-8147-8085-7.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (1990). The Structure of Love. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-04566-2.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (1986). Pornography: Marxism, Feminism and the Future of Sexuality. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-03524-1.
See also
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References
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- ^ "Alan Soble, PhD Script error: No such module "webarchive".", Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University. Retrieved May 24, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Beate Elvebakk, Table 1: Dates of birth of twentieth century philosophers in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP), Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (SEP) and Wikipedia, First Monday, archived from the original on 2010-08-08, retrieved 2010-03-13
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alan Soble (January 1997), Dedication of Sex, Love, And Friendship, Rodopi B.V.Editions, ISBN 978-90-420-0227-2
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cohen-Baker, Nadine (2006). "Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia". Library Journal. 131 (6).
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vacek, Edward (1998). "The Philosophy of Sex and Love: An Introduction". Theological Studies. 59 (64): 770.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of the Society". The Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love. Archived from the original on 5 December 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Soble, Alan (1997). "Introduction". In Soble, Alan (ed.). Sex, love, and friendship: studies of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, 1977-1992. Value Inquiry Book Series. Vol. 45. Netherlands: Rodopi. p. xli. ISBN 978-90-420-0227-2.
- ^ NYU Press page[permanent dead link]
- ^ Obituary. Retrieved Dec 17, 2025.
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