A Dispositional Theory of Love
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (forthcoming)
| Abstract | On a natural reading of the major accounts of love, love is a kind of mental state or event. A recent trend in the philosophical literature on love is to reject these accounts on the basis that they do not do justice to the historical dimension of love, as love essentially involves a distinctive kind of temporally extended pattern. Although the historicist account has advantages over the positions that it opposes, its appeal to the notion of a pattern is problematic. I will argue that an account of love as disposition,suitably construed, is superior to the historicist account in that it has the advantages the historicist account has without its problems. In addition, the dispositional account has advantages of its own. | |||||||||
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