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NOTES

1 Jean-Paul Sartre,
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
(New York: Citadel, 1965).

2 Ibid., p. 302.

1. Without going into Sartre’s delicate formulations, a “self” can be under- stood as referring to a person, to a self-conscious individual. In this essay the expressions “self” and “person” will be used interchangeably.
   

2. Jean-Paul Sartre,
   No Exit and Three Other Plays
   (New York: Vintage, 1989).
   

3. For a thorough investigation about the nature of the look, see the chapter entitled “The Look” in Sartre,
   Being and Nothingness
   .
   

4. Sartre,
   Being and Nothingness
   , p. 475.
   

5. Michel Foucault,
   Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
   (London: Penguin, 1977).
   

6. Sartre,
   Being and Nothingness
   , p. 346. 9 Ibid., p. 352.
   

1. For a thorough discussion of bad faith, see part one of
   Being and Nothingness
   , titled “The Problem of Nothingness.”
   

2. Sartre,
   Being and Nothingness
   , p. 113, emphasis in the original
   

3. For a masterful description of the alienation of the self, see Sartre’s famous novel
   Nausea
   (New York: New Directions, 1964).
   

4. Sartre,
   Being and Nothingness
   , p. 101.
   

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

M ATTHEW BROPH Y,
PhD, is a visiting assistant philosophy profes- sor at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he teaches ethics. Fortunately, he managed to fund his PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota without subjecting himself to exploitation – other than serving as a teaching assistant. Matthew lives with his beauti- ful wife and above-average child in Minneapolis.

MICHAEL BRUCE,
MA, received his BA from California State University, Chico, where he took classes with his co-editor, Professor Stewart. Bruce went on to earn his master’s degree from San Diego State University, followed by teaching philosophy and mathematics courses at the University of Washington’s Robinson Center for Young Scholars. He is the editor of
Just the Arguments: The 100 Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy
, forthcoming in 2010 from Wiley-Blackwell. He thor- oughly enjoyed college sex and philosophy.

SISI CHEN
recently graduated with a BA in psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her ultimate goal is to pursue her PhD in clinical psychology so that she can practice family and marriage counseling with a specialization in sex therapy. She is an expert lucid dreamer and loves knee socks.

HE ATHER CORINNA
is the queer, rabblerousing, polymath founder and editor of
Scarlet Letters, Scarleteen
, the
All Girl Army
, and
Femmerotic
. Her sexuality work and erotica has appeared online in numerous venues

and in print. Her work in sexuality information and activism has brought accolades from
Adult Video News
to the Illinois Library Association,
The City Pages
to
Playboy
, and from the
Utne Reader
to the Kinsey Institute. Her pioneering work in women’s sexuality on the web since 1997 spear- headed a developing trend towards a greater diversity in the voice of erotic and sexuality work, and put the term “femmerotica” on the map. She is the author of
S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-To-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to GetYou Through High School and College
.

JOHN DRAEGER,
PhD, is an assistant professor of philosophy at Buffalo State College. His research interests include ethics, political phi- losophy, and philosophy of law. He has recently been trying to develop an account of respect for persons.

YOLANDA ESTES
, PhD, is a professor of philosophy at Mississippi State University. Her teaching covers all areas of philosophy, and her research focuses on transcendental idealism (especially the philosophy of

J. G. Fichte) and ethics (especially the philosophy of sex and love). She is an author and editor of
Marginal Groups and Mainstream American Culture
and
J. G. Fichte:The Atheism Dispute (1798–1800)
.

GEORGE T. HOLE
, PhD, is a distinguished teaching professor of phi- losophy at Buffalo State College who has taught for many years a course entitled “The Philosophy of Love and Sex,” which should have made him wise(r). He discovers daily that he is not wise about love. To avoid taking philosophy too seriously he plays racquetball and writes poetry. Socrates is his hero – whom he attacks because of his claim to love wis- dom and his ignorance of sex and college.

ANDREW KANIA
, PhD, is an assistant professor of philosophy at Trinity University in San Antonio. His principal research is in the phi- losophy of music, literature, and film. He is the editor of
Memento
, in Routledge’s series “Philosophers on Film,” and, with Theodore Gracyk, is currently editing
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music
.

ANTTI KUUSELA
, MA, is finishing his PhD thesis in the philosophy of mind at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Lately, as a result of reading too muchWittgenstein, he has been increasingly interested in the questions “What is philosophy?” and “What do philosophers think they are doing?” Kuusela lives happily in Helsinki with his girlfriend and a goldfish.

DANIELLE A. L AYNE
, PhD, is a researcher and instructor of philoso- phy for De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Her primary interests are Platonic and Neo-Platonic philosophy. In her spare time, she writes children’s books in the hopes of inundating the young with idealistic worldviews.

TIMOTHY R. LEVINE
, PhD, is a professor of communication at Michigan State University. Levine has published nearly 100 journal arti- cles and book chapters on topics related to communication. Levine’s primary area of research is deception and deception detection.

BRETT LUNCEFORD
, PhD, is an assistant professor of communica- tion at the University of South Alabama where he heads the track in Interpersonal Communication and Rhetoric. Although a rhetorician by training, he enjoys a wide range of research interests and has published in
American Communication Journal, ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property, Review of Communication
, and
Theology and Sexuality
, with forthcoming articles in
Explorations in Media Ecology
and
Media History Monographs
.

ASHLEY MCDOWELL
, PhD, earned her BA from Virginia Commonwealth University and her PhD from the University of Arizona, and is now an assistant professor of philosophy at Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Her current favorite philosophical mission is the translation of academic philosophy (especially epistemology) into useful advice for actual people. If she were a tree, she would be a birch tree.

PA UL A. MONGEA U
, PhD, is a professor at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University in Tempe. His scholarly interests center on sexual practices on modern university cam- puses and how they influence relationship development. He serves as editor of the
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
.

KEL LY MORRISON
, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of communication at Michigan State University, where she teaches classes in interpersonal communication and gender communication. Her research examines issues in close relationships.

GUY PINKU
, PhD, received his MA in cognitive psychology from Ben-Gurion University and his PhD in philosophy from the University

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of Haifa, Israel. Pinku went on to do post-doctorate work at Washington University in St. Louis. His main research interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, self-consciousness, and free will. His essay in the current volume is inspired by questions he had when he was a college student.

BILL PUKA
, PhD, is a professor of philosophy and psychology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he teaches philosophy and psy- chology. He completed his doctoral work at Harvard. He has worked as a legislative aide in the US Senate (for Gary Hart), director of an urban economic development program, staff member in a Connecticut “just community” prison unit, professional puppeteer and actor in children’s theatre, and a songwriter-recording artist for Columbia Records (where he wrote and recorded very sexy songs).

B ASSAM ROM AYA
, PhD, has taught widely at Penn State University, Widener University, San Diego State University, and Temple University. His past publications and research interests are in the areas of social and political philosophy, GLBT studies, aesthetics, and ethics.

KELLI JEAN K. SMITH
, PhD, is assistant professor in the Communication Department at William Paterson University. In addition to friends with benefits relationships, her research interests include com- plaining, unrequited love, and stalking.

WILLIAM O. STEPHENS
, PhD, is a professor of philosophy and of classical and Near Eastern studies at Creighton University in Omaha. His research interests include Stoicism, naturalism, environmental philo- sophy, ethics and animals, personhood, and philosophies of love. Though he is a lover of wisdom, he is uncertain about the wisdom of sex.

ROBERT M. STEWART
, PhD, is a professor of philosophy at California State University, Chico. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, specializing in ethics and social and political philosophy. Stewart currently teaches courses entitled “Ethics and Human Happiness” and “Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love.” He also edited
Philosophical Perspectives on Sex and Love
, an influential text in the field.