The Metaphysics of Love

Welcome to the Metaphysics of Love Project

The Metaphysics of Love Project was an interdisciplinary investigation into the nature of romantic love, supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant and by the funding of Principal Investigator Carrie Jenkins's Canada Research Chair. We conducted an exciting and experimental three-year collaboration involving philosophers and poets, with both academic and creative outputs.

The project ran from 2016 to 2019, following a successful pilot project that ran from 2014 to 2016 (funded by a Hampton Research Grant from the University of British Columbia).

RECENT PROJECT NEWS

• Carrie Jenkins’s book What Love Is and What It Could Be is published with Basic Books.

• Her latest book, Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning, is published with Polity.

• Carrie Jenkins and Carla Nappi’s book-length collection of poetry, Uninvited: Talking Back to Plato, is published with McGill-Queens University Press.

• See more of our publications.

• Outputs and/or coverage of the project's work can be found in:

  • New Statesman

  • TIME

  • The New York Times

  • The Atlantic

  • EL PAÍS

  • TED

  • NPR

  • Vox

  • CBC The Current

  • Elle Canada

  • The Globe and Mail

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Jezebel

  • The Cut

  • ABC Nightline