Gricean Love

Or, Aspects of love and loving.

A nice manifesto of Gricean love can be be found at

http://www.fredonia.edu/department/Philosophy/courses.html

with the simple query -- left unanswered, though:

"Why should we be concerned with analyzing love?"

Indeed!

For the Griceans amongst us, it seems it is R. V. Scruton who has given the philosophy of love ("erotic philosophy" as he calls it) a sort of Gricean
twist. Thus one reads at:

http://www.uno.edu/~asoble/pages/ROUT.htm

of Scruton's 'sophisticated analysis' 'drawing on Grice'. Scruton attended Oxford briefly and came to love Grice there.

I have compiled a bibliography (below) mainly out of:

http://www.uno.edu/~asoble/pages/tsol.htm

plus an addition or two from:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/academic/N-Q/psysc/staff/rmyoung/lists/list4.html
http://www.arts.uwa.edu.au/PhilosWWW/mlevine/

And I guess that, if one wants to be real analytic [sic], one's favourite
reference will be

Kraut, R. Love de re. Midwest Studies in Philosophy.

My subject line is an echo of both Grice's _Aspects of reason and reasoning_ (John Locke Lectures, Oxford) and D. Garnett's novel.

Analytic Philosophy of Love (a few selected references):

Badhwar, N.
Friends as Ends in Themselves.
Philosophy & Phenomenological Research 48
Reprinted in Soble.
Bergman S.
Varieties of Love & Loving.
In The Anatomy of Loving: The Story of Man's Quest
to Know What Love Is. Columbia pb.
Diorio, J.
Sex, Love, & Justice.
Repr. in Soble.
Ehman, R.
Personal love & individual value.
Journal of Value Inquiry 10
Fisher, M
Reason, emotion, & love
Inquiry 20
Giddens, A.
The Transformation of Intimacy:
Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies. Polity
Hamlyn, D.
The Phenomena of Love and Hate. Philosophy 53
Repr. in Soble.
Kraut, R
Love De Re. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10.
Levine M.
Rational Emotion, Emotional Holism, True Love, and Charlie Chaplin
J. Phil Research 24
Lyons, W. Emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Newton-Smith, W.
A Conceptual Investigation of Love,
In A. Soble.
Rorty, A.
The Historicity of Psychological Attitudes:
Love is Not Love Which Alters Not When It Alteration Finds.
Midwest Studies in Philosophy 10
Scruton, R. V.
Sexual Desire: A Moral Philosophy of the Erotic. Free Press.
Soble, A.
Ero, agape & philia. (Editor). Paragon House.

Etc. The main Gricean paradox is

the reciprocal or speculatory (in Daellenbach's word) nature of love:

x loves y because y loves x because x loves y because y loves x because ... ad infinitum.

Etc.