One of the principal ways analytic philosophers can contribute to intellectual progress on topics of public interest is by drawing attention to, and rigorously debating, widespread assumptions about a subject. One of the core methodological principles underlying this project is that this strategy can be profitably applied to the metaphysics of love.
A group at the University of British Columbia, headed up by Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins, is investigating the metaphysics of love. The questions they’re taking up look very interesting.
“Can one be in love with a computer operating system?”
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