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What is sexual orientation? What is it to be straight, gay, bi, or asexual? Is it to feel attracted to individuals of a particular kind of sex or gender? Is it to desire to engage sexually with individuals of one such type? Is feeling attracted even different from desiring? Does having a sexual orientation consist in feeling attracted or desiring consistently for a range of time? How long, if so - all of our lives, all of our adult lives? Is sexual orientation a matter of choice at all? What are choices? Are they expressions of preferences in context? Are preferences really different from desires or feelings? These are some of the many questions we will explore rigorously in this course. One of the guiding presuppositions of this course will be that turning our theoretical attention to "applied" questions like these will help us better understand the very nature of desire, experience, preference, choice, and related topics that have occupied a central place in the "western" tradition of "analytic" philosophy. This course will be a seminar taught in English. Close engagement of the assigned texts will be expected from students, along with regular participation in class. |
