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What Is Love? An Incomplete Map of the Metaphysics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2015
Abstract:
The paper begins by surveying a range of possible views on the metaphysics of romantic love, organizing them as responses to a single question. It then outlines a position, constructionist functionalism, according to which romantic love is characterized by a functional role that is at least partly constituted by social matters (social institutions, traditions, and practices), although this role may be realized by states that are not socially constructed.
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- Journal of the American Philosophical Association , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Summer 2015 , pp. 349 - 364
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- Copyright © American Philosophical Association 2015
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