I just finished Carrie Jenkins' What Love is: And What it Could Be as part of my dissertation research on intimacy. It's a quick and interesting read and while Jenkins didn't have much to say about intimacy (to be fair, few analytic philosophers do), the core proposal that love has both a social and biological nature strikes me as essentially correct. The book also made me reconsider and reassess some of the assumptions I've had about the nature of polyamorous relationships and, most interestingly, about what Jenkins calls
Monogamy, Jealousy, and Private Property
Monogamy, Jealousy, and Private Property
Monogamy, Jealousy, and Private Property
I just finished Carrie Jenkins' What Love is: And What it Could Be as part of my dissertation research on intimacy. It's a quick and interesting read and while Jenkins didn't have much to say about intimacy (to be fair, few analytic philosophers do), the core proposal that love has both a social and biological nature strikes me as essentially correct. The book also made me reconsider and reassess some of the assumptions I've had about the nature of polyamorous relationships and, most interestingly, about what Jenkins calls