Gary Foster

The main focus of my research is the relation between love and personal identity. I have several published papers on this topic and an edited collection titled Desire, Love, and Identity: Philosophy of Sex and Love, Oxford University Press, Canada, 2017.  More recently, my book Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love was published by Lexington Books, 2024. I have recently started doing research in the area of philosophy of sport.

I have recently supervised students in our MA program whose major research papers have focused on Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Love, Jean-Paul Sartre and Søren Kierkegaard.

• "VAR and Flow in Soccer (Football): Changes to the Fan Experience," forthcoming in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.
• Alienation and Identity in Romantic Love, Lexington Books, 2024.
• "Existentialism" in Stephen Bullivant and Michael Ruse, The Cambridge History of Atheism, Volume 2, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021, 616-631.
• "What Matters in Love: Reflections on the Relation Between Love and Persons," Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, Volume 58, Number 2, June 2019, 323-340.
• "Persons and Properties: A Sartrean Perspective on Love's Object," European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 26, Issue 1, March, 2018, 82-94.
• Desire, Love, and Identity: Philosophy of Sex and Love, Oxford University Press, Canada, 2017 (edited volume).
• "Sartre and Contemporary Moral Psychology", Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Volume 20, Number 2, 2016, 92-103.
• "The Priority of the Good Over Right in Love: Challenging Velleman's Kantian View", Etyka 52/2016, 47-57 (the journal of the Institute of Philosophy, University of Warsaw), special issue titled "The Ethics of Close Relationships."
• "The Embodied Object of Erotic Love: Sartre and Sexual Desire" in Forces of the Erotic: Past and Present Transgressions, Transformations and Bliss, edited by Doreen Bauschke and Dena Gilby, Oxford: United Kingdom, Interdisciplinary.net Press, 2014, 45-59.
• "Overcoming a Euthyphro Problem in Personal Love: Imagination and Personal Identity," The Journal of Philosophical Psychology, Volume 24, Number 6 (December, 2011), 825-844.
• "Bestowal Without Appraisal: Problems in Harry Frankfurt's Characterization of Love and Personal Identity," Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Volume 12, Issue 2 (2009), pp. 153-168.