José A. Díez, Andrea Iacona

A Short Philosophical Guide to the Fallacies of Love (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350140875
• Artikelnr.: 60777789

Autorenporträt

José A. Díez is Professor in the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Basic Ideas about Love What we talk about when we talk about
love Some fundamental properties of love Truth, justification, and
knowledge The fallacies of love Sex, gender, and stereotypes Some final
remarks Chapter 2: The Invention of Reasons Rationalization The you-you
fallacy The virtue fallacy Purported sour grapes Lost love's labours
Inference to the worst explanation Chapter 3: The Power of Desire over
Belief The glasses of love Belief without evidence Evidence without belief
Love is blind The diamond fallacy Chapter 4: Wanting it all Complex cases
of cognitive mistakes The divided lover The princess The Don Juan The
emotional terrorizer Chapter 5: When Love Goes Away The end of love The
sunk costs fallacy The sweet lemons fallacy Inertia and uncertainty Desamor
Index