Eric Cave, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Philosophy

Contact Information:
Phone:  870.972.2130
Office: Wilson Hall 205A
Email:  ccave@astate.edu

Specialties:
Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy

Courses Regularly Taught:
Introduction to Philosophy
Ethics in the Health Care Professions
Contemporary Ethical Problems
Social and Political Philosophy
Environmental Ethics
Philosophy of Sex

Research:
Preferring Justice (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998)

"Marital Pluralism: Making Marriage Safer for Love," Journal of Social Philosophy 34 (2003), pp. 331-47

"Harm Prevention and the Benefits of Marriage," Journal of Social Philosophy 35 (2004): 233-43

"Seduction," In Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia, 2 vols., ed. Alan Soble, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2005, 980-86

"A Normative Interpretation of Expected Utility Theory," Journal of Value Inquiry 39 (2005):  431-41.

What's Wrong with Motive Manipulation?" Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 10 (2007):  29-44. 

Current Project:
Book manuscript: Unsavory Sexual Seduction