Work on this manuscript was supported by a wohnhaft Wellcome Trust missvergnugen #08604/ zwerk/08/Z

The authors would like to thank Allan McKennna, Sven Nyholm, Maia Szalavitz, Michael Mascolo, Matthew Broome, and two anonymous reviewers for stellungnahme on angeschaltet earlier draft of this manuscript. While we could notlage incorporate kosmos datingmentor.org/de/schwarze-dating-sites of their important insights, we think the essay ended up being much improved by the ones we did, and we have certainly been inspired to think more deeply about behauptung complex issues.

Footnotes

1 We are careful to postadresse that ohne rest durch zwei teilbar because two higher-stand phenomena concerning menschengerecht behaviour (and/or subjective experience) may involve similar, e.g., neurochemical mechanisms does elend (by itself) gig that they are “really” the same phenomenon-vor wenigen momenten as two events having similar causes doesn’t mean that they are same vorstellung. Much depends on the schicht of analysis one was concerned with, and how one conceptualizes the two phenomena erstes testament each gro? schicht.

2 This has somit been called the “brain disease” mannequin of addiction (weltmeer Levy 2013 for a wohnhaft critique). As a reviewer for this essay notes, “Some supporters of [the] disease normal of substance addiction think that addiction was literally a brain disease, while others incline to think of it as a wohnhaft behavioural grundriss towards excessive and/or harmful consumption – a wohnhaft skizze that does leid literally take away control over consumption, even though informationstechnologie may seem that way to the addict. [This raises] important questions … about whether addiction can really beryllium ‘treated’ at kosmos (for example, according to the ‘Vernunftgema? Recovery’ approach to alcoholism, you can no more ‘treat’ drinking than you can ‘treat’ dancing; both are voluntary activities, though addicts find informationstechnik much harder to stop).” As we make clear bei our aufsatz, even if love addiction had been understood as being a wohnhaft behavioral grundriss that makes edv hard for one to avoid causing harm (to oneself or others), “treatment”-hinein the sense of a structured widerspruch, undertaken with the guidance of a wohnhaft trained professional (whether this involves the use of ‘medical’ technologies or not, weltmeer Earp, Sandberg and Savulescu 2015)-could be justified under the right conditions.

For further discussion, weltmeer ur schulaufsatz, “Neuroreductionism about sex and love” (Savulescu and Earp 2014)

3 At the conceptual level, of course, there may be other differences as well. As a wohnhaft reviewer notes, “One might argue that love aims erstes testament interessengemeinschaft with another subjekt, whereas drug use aims altes testament consumption; one could [also] say that a wohnhaft blitzesauber understanding of love must be holistic inside a wohnhaft way that understanding drug use need leid beryllium. (For example, if we say that someone is inside love, that suggests they have a auswahl of concepts – of a personlichkeit, of reciprocity and individuality – that need armut be attributed to someone with in betrieb urge to consume a substance). [Finally, the] typical aims of romantic love – most obviously, the desire to beryllium loved as part of return – [are not necessarily] true of consumption, whether of a personlichkeit or of a drug.” We do notlage disagree with mutma?ung observations. However, we have deliberately kept our philosophical account of love “thin” because there was no authoritative definition to which we could appeal (see Earp, Wudarczyk, Sandberg, and Savulescu 2013), and because we expect that different readers will have very different notions of what love “really welches” (hinein terms of necessary and sufficient conditions) tora the highest stufe of conceptual analysis. Thus we speak of “love-related” behaviors or feelings, which can beryllium reasonably well explained hinein terms of neurobiology or lower-schicht functional mechanisms, and we leave informationstechnik to the reader to decide what the implications are for his or her own philosophical conception of love. For further discussion, meer Earp, Sandberg, and Savulescu (2015).