Love: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Book 81 of 344: Very Short Introductions

De Sousa, Ronald

 
9780199663842: Love: A Very Short Introduction

Synopsis

Do we love someone for their virtue, their beauty, or their moral or other qualities? What do the sciences tell us about love?

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About the Author

Ronald de Sousa is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has taught at University of Toronto, Canada since 1966. He is the author of The Rationality of Emotion (MIT 1987) , Why Think? Evolution and the Rational Mind (OUP 2007, 2011), and Emotional Truth (OUP 2011). He has also published over a hundred articles and book chapters, and taught and lectured in some twenty countries. His research interests have been mainly in areas of philosophy that seek to understand the mind: emotion, evolutionary theory, cognitive science, aesthetics, ethics, and sex.

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