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.