Centre de philosophie des sciences

Centre d'anthropologie philosophique

Summary

I propose a new solution for an old puzzle: do you love a person because you love certain properties she displays, or do you love her 'de re', i.e. independently of the properties that characterize her? After comparing love de re with other de re attitudes and distinguishing it from love de dicto, I reject reductions of love de re to love de dicto. But love cannot be wholly independent of properties of the person in whom the emotion originates and what her lover expects from her. The lover must have a dynamic conception of the person his emotion originates in and cannot be reduced an antecedently available set of properties he or she appreciates. The origin of the emotion must occupy an emotional agent-relative role in the lover's life to generate properties loved by the lover.

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