Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities?
Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (ie, biological�…

In this provocative contribution to the philosophy of science and mind, Paul E. Griffiths
criticizes contemporary philosophy and psychology of emotion for failing to take in an�…

This chapter briefly describes the general goals of the book, introduces the most
fundamental features of the methodology that is employed to achieve these goals, and gives�…

At first glance, love seems to be a psychological state for which there are normative reasons:
a state that, if all goes well, is an appropriate or fitting response to something independent of�…

The central thesis of this study is that romantic love is not reducible to a labeled set of
reactions but is to be seen, instead, as an extremely complex conceptual network�…

Recent Western thought has consistently emphasized the individualistic strand in our
understanding of persons at the expense of the social strand. Thus, it is generally thought�…

Certain things, like justice, have impersonal value. Other things, like your parents, carry
personal values: they have value for you. Besides whatever value they have, they are�…

How is love different from lust or infatuation? Do love and marriage really go together" like a
horse and carriage"? Does sex have any necessary connection to either? And how�…

The philosophy of loveFor centuries, popular writers and respected scholars have written
about and analyzed the phenomenon of love without exhausting its potential for�…

I take friendship to be a practical and emotional relationship marked by mutual and (more or
less) equal goodwill, liking, and pleasure. Friendship can exist between siblings, lovers�…