One Body: Responses to Critics

Alexander R. Pruss

doi:10.18290/rf.2015.63.3-12

Alexander R. Pruss Baylor University, Department of Philosophy

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2015.63.3-12

Keywords: sex; love; body; sexuality; reproduction; procreation; Inference to Best Explanation; theology; philosophy; teleology; menopause; Christianity; Catholicism.

Abstract

In this article I respond to a number of powerful criticisms of my book One Body.

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