Serious or not, these ways people talk about what love is form an important part of the context against which this project, investigating the metaphysics of love, takes place ...

Philosophy and poetry are hardly strangers. But what exactly are they? 

We aren't sure, but we want to test a hunch: that they can be collaborators ...

We are delighted that poet Ray Hsu has joined the project team as a consultant. Ray will be helping us develop interdisciplinary connections with literature and creative writing, as we prepare a grant application which we hope will fund future events bringing together metaphysicians and poets interested in the nature of love ...

Another summary of our pilot workshop, this one from speaker Justin Clardy.

A very nice collection of photos from the pilot workshop. Thanks Jonathan!

Our inaugural event, the pilot workshop, was a great success. Five talks and a workshop dinner gave us lots of opportunities for conversation, but even so, the discussions could have gone on much longer ...

We are gearing up for the pilot workshop tomorrow. Looking forward to a fascinating day.

Getting into the spirit of things, I've finished a first draft of a short paper which attempts an initial mapping of some positions in the metaphysics of love ...

I'm currently working on some ideas for my upcoming talk at the University of Alberta. The main aim of this talk will be to get the metaphysics of love set up as a going concern, with a huge range of avenues worthy of exploration matching that more familiarly explored in connection with other areas of metaphysics ...

... The historical common-law conception of love codified the idea that marriage was meant to merge man and woman together into one legal person -- where the woman's rights were subsumed under those of the man and the man took on the obligation of protection.

The problem of fairness thus barely arose: marriage was heterosexual only, and unity in marriage was achieved by simply sacrificing the woman's interest to the man's.

What we need is a theory of love that will not only accommodate, but also help us understand, the delicate interplay between individualistic self-oriented interests and shared collective interests ...

The five speakers will be addressing issues ranging from tenderness to envy, and whether there is such a thing as "one true love" ...