The Metaphysics of Love

Welcome to the Metaphysics of Love Project

The Metaphysics of Love Project is 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 are conducting an exciting and experimental three-year collaboration involving philosophers and poets, with both academic and creative outputs.

The project is running 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

• The first publications from the project's collaborative re-imagining of Plato's Symposium are out now in The Philosophers Magazine!

• Project PI Carrie Jenkins's poem "Fourteen" from the Symposium project was shortlisted for the 2018 Malahat Review Far Horizons Poetry Award. 

• Recent coverage of the project's work can be found in:

  • TIME

  • The New York Times

  • The Atlantic

  • TED

  • NPR

  • Vox

  • CBC The Current

  • Elle Canada

  • The Globe and Mail

  • The Chronicle of Higher Education

  • Jezebel

  • The Cut

  • ABC Nightline