PHL243H1 Chapter Notes -Functionalism Versus Intentionalism, Reductionism, Human Sexuality
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Sexual desire as aiming at bodily pleasure rests on the flawed assumption that sexual pleasure has the same uniform physical character in all sexual encounters. This rests on flawed assumptions in the philosophy of mind. Morgan conceives of persons as embodied minds. He thinks the nature of the sexual pleasure we take in the body of another can be transformed by the significance the person or situation has for us. Sexual desire and pleasure result from intentionality, which is our belief about the object of our desire and the acts in which we are engaging. This influences the amount and quality of our pleasure. The plain sex view is that humans experience through sex intense physical sensations which are extremely pleasurable and these feelings are the object of our desire. When we want intercourse with another person, what we really want are those physical feelings.
