The Nature of the Sexes

This book develops and defends a novel account of the sexes on which they are biological functions to produce either sperm or eggs.

Tomás Bogardus is Professor of Philosophy at Pepperdine University, USA. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology, as well as philosophy of language, and has been publishing on the philosophy of sex and gender since 2019.

1. Introduction 2. What the Sexes Could Not Be: The Complex View 3. What the Sexes Could Be: The Gamete View 4. Gender is Defined in Terms of the Sexes 5. When Biology Meets Politics 6. A Defense of the Sex-Tracking View of Pronouns 7. Conclusion