Tag: Eros and Ethos
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Aporia: Pleasure
by Jason Stotts Aporia (ἀπορɛία): an impasse, puzzlement, doubt, or confusion; a difficulty encountered in establishing the theoretical truth of a proposition, created by the presence of evidence both for and against it. In this Aporia, I want to inquire into the nature of pleasure. In Eros and Ethos, I made the claim that: Now, I want to explicitly make the…
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Happy 10th Birthday Erosophia!
by Jason Stotts I really can’t believe that it’s been 10 years since I started blogging! Blogging is interesting. I never set out to be a blogger. In fact, I only started writing a blog on a lark. Then, I just sort of kept writing and at some point things got interesting. Somewhere along the…
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Best of 2014
by Jason Stotts Last year, 2014, was an exceptionally busy year. I worked on revising my book Eros and Ethos and my MA in Clinical Psychology. Something about full-time grad school and working full-time, in addition to working on Eros and Ethos, hasn’t left me as much time as I would have liked to write essays…
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Eros and Ethos
by Jason Stotts I recently wrote a proposal for funding for Eros and Ethos and I thought it was pretty good, so I’m going to share parts of it here. Click through if you’re interested.
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Volunteers Needed
by Jason Stotts I am sending out a call for help from you, my dear readers. As you probably know, Eros and Ethos is done in draft. Some chapters have had many revisions and are around a 7th draft and some are only a 2nd draft. Suffice it to say that the book is in a…
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On Intuitionism
by Jason Stotts Note: What follows here is the first draft of a philosophical essay on intuitionism that will appear in my forthcoming book Eros and Ethos in an appendix. I’m publishing it here because I’d like feedback on it to improve the draft. Please leave your feedback below as a comment below or email me…
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Eros and Ethos Cover
by Jason Stotts You probably already know this, but my book Eros and Ethos: A New Theory and Application of Sexual Ethics is done in draft and is being edited now. I’ve been working with a graphic designer (http://josephpearsondesigner.com/) to create the cover and he’s come up with some really good stuff. At this point, we…
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Book Covers
by Jason Stotts I’ve been thinking a lot about book covers recently, especially now that I have a draft of Eros and Ethos done. I was talking with someone about what a good cover might look like and decided I’d try to figure out what I would want in a book cover. So, I went to…