Cover story: Love Why should poets, singers, novelists and musicians have all the fun? In this issue, philosophers explore the nature of love. Can love, perhaps like fear, be rational or irrational? Just what is the meaning of parental love? What lies behind our thought that love is sometimes unconditional? Can you really be loved “for who you are”? Is it better to have loved and lost? Find out in a particularly lovely forum.
FORUM 66 Irrational love Berit Brogaard 72 Our children, our selves Jean Kazez 79 Love as religion Simon May 86 Being loved for who you are
Tony Milligan 93 Unrequited love Jeremy Stangroom 100 Kinds of love Mark Vernon
REVIEWS 110 Patricia Illingworth on Peter Singer’s
The Most Good You Can Do 112 Andrea C Westlund on Hilde
Lindemann’s Holding and Letting Go 114 Kirk Ludwig on John Searle’s Seeing
Things As They Are 117 Film: Margaret Betz on Woody Allen’s
Irrational Man
The Philosophers’ Magazine editor@philosophersmag.com www.philosophersmag.com facebook.com/philosophersmag twitter.com/philosophersmag appstore.com/thephilosophersmagazine Editor James Garvey Founding Editor Julian Baggini Reviews Editor Jean Kazez Editorial Associate Kerrie Grain News Kerrie Grain
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Miranda Fricker, Simon Glendinning, Daniel D Hutto, Susan James,
David Papineau, Nina Power, Anthony Price, Jonathan Rée,
Richard Schoch, Barry C Smith, Jonathan Wolff
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ISSN 1354-814X (print) ISSN 2048-4674 (online)
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