Short Philosophical Guide to the Fallacies of Love
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- ISBN 9781350140905
- Weight: 280g
- Dimensions: 132 x 204mm
- Publication Date: 10 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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What can epistemology tell us about love? Here two philosophers use their training in arguments and reasoning to uncover the role of ungrounded beliefs when we fall in love.
This not a self-help book, it is a philosophy book. Free of advice, methods and strategies for being successful in love, it does not offer solutions for problems. What it gives us instead is a reading of love as it actually is. The authors illustrate the fallacies of love by drawing on personal experiences, literary characters and imaginary individuals. They provide examples of ungrounded beliefs in Aesop’s Fables, Cinderella and Don Giovanni amongst others, and illustrate love as an inexhaustible source of misperceptions, misunderstandings and misconceptions.
By tackling those characteristic and all-too familiar ways in which ungrounded love beliefs arise, the book forces us to question why baseless beliefs are maintained and reinforced, showing us that many love beliefs are built on anything but logic.
José A. Díez is Professor in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Barcelona, Spain.
Andrea Iacona is Professor of Logic in the Department of Philosophy and Education at the University of Turin, Italy.
