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Zusatztext A provocative, enlightening and entertaining book. Through vivid and amusing examples, Díez and Icona use the tools of logic and epistemology to deconstruct the myth of romantic love, which has always been a tool of social control and a powerful anaesthetic. Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Basic Ideas about Love What we talk about when we talk about loveSome fundamental properties of loveTruth, justification, and knowledgeThe fallacies of loveSex, gender, and stereotypesSome final remarks Chapter 2: The Invention of Reasons RationalizationThe you-you fallacyThe virtue fallacyPurported sour grapesLost love's laboursInference to the worst explanation Chapter 3: The Power of Desire over Belief The glasses of loveBelief without evidenceEvidence without beliefLove is blindThe diamond fallacy Chapter 4: Wanting it all Complex cases of cognitive mistakesThe divided loverThe princessThe Don JuanThe emotional terrorizer Chapter 5: When Love Goes Away The end of loveThe sunk costs fallacyThe sweet lemons fallacyInertia and uncertaintyDesamorIndex...
