It's that time of year when the world gets interested in romantic love ...

Current mood: Let's do this thing!

This week I'm taking a trip to Washington, D.C., where I'll be reading selections from the manuscript of What Love Is and What It Could Be at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association. This will be the first public appearance of material from the manuscript, which is exciting (if a little nerve-wracking) ...

J. Edward Hackett and I discuss the metaphysics of love (and the Metaphysics of Love Project) ...

Epistemologically speaking, we are rarely in a position to accept surveys or scientific studies as the arbiters of deep and difficult philosophical debates, or to accept unquestioningly whatever they may appear to be telling us. This is never clearer than when the subject is something so metaphysically fraught and poorly understood as romantic love, yet the epistemological complexities of this particular situation are rarely given their due ...

We should to be at least as careful about deploying the word ‘love’ as we are in deploying the word ‘addiction’ ...

Fictions matter IRL. There's no "just" about it ...

I'm appearing on ABC Radio National show The Philosopher's Zone this week, to talk about the metaphysics of romantic love and why it matters ...

I'm happy to announce that two papers written for the Metaphysics of Love Project have recently been published ...

I've been thinking about a small writing side-project over the last few days (more on this in future posts!) and one thing that's kept coming to mind is how words like "love" bring baggage with them ...