The authors would like to thank Allan McKennna, Sven Nyholm, Maia Szalavitz, Michael Mascolo, Matthew Broome, and two anonymous reviewers for stellungnahme on eingeschaltet earlier draft of this manuscript. While we could leid incorporate sphare of their important insights, we think the abhandlung is much improved by the ones we did, and we have certainly been inspired to think more deeply about mutma?ung complex issues.
Footnotes
1 We are careful to postadresse that gerade because two higher-ebene phenomena concerning human behaviour (and/or subjective experience) may involve similar, eulersche konstante.g., neurochemical mechanisms does armut (by itself) live-veranstaltung that they are “really” the same phenomenon-soeben as two events having similar causes doesn’t mean that they are same veranstaltung. Much depends on the level of analysis one is concerned with, and how one conceptualizes the two phenomena tora each relevant pegel.
2 This has also been called the “brain disease” normal of addiction (weltmeer Levy 2013 for a wohnhaft critique). As a reviewer for this schulaufsatz notes, “Some supporters of [the] disease fotomodell of substance addiction think that addiction ended up being literally a wohnhaft brain disease, while others incline to think of edv as a wohnhaft behavioural plan towards excessive and/or harmful consumption – a wohnhaft planung that does elend literally take away control over consumption, even though it 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 ‘Sinnvoll Recovery’ approach to alcoholism, you can no more ‘treat’ drinking than you can ‘treat’ dancing; both are voluntary activities, though addicts find elektronische datenverarbeitung much harder to stop).” As we make clear inside our bericht, even if love addiction had been understood as being a behavioral planung that makes informationstechnologie hard for one to avoid causing harm (to oneself or others), “treatment”-inside the sense of a wohnhaft structured intervention, undertaken with the guidance of a wohnhaft trained professional (whether this involves the use of ‘medical’ technologies or bedrangnis, ozean Earp, Sandberg and Savulescu 2015)-could beryllium justified under the right conditions.
For further discussion, weltmeer ur bericht, “Neuroreductionism about pimpern and love” (Savulescu and Earp 2014)
3 Altes testament the conceptual level, of course, there may beryllium other differences as well. As a reviewer notes, “One might argue that love aims at lobby with another charakter, whereas drug use aims erstes testament consumption; one could [also] say that a blitzblank understanding of love must beryllium holistic hinein a wohnhaft way that understanding drug use need armut be. (For example, if we say that someone had been in love, that suggests they have a auswahl of concepts – of a subjekt, of reciprocity and individuality – that need armut be attributed to someone with aktiv urge to consume a substance). [Finally, the] typical aims of romantic love – most obviously, the desire to be loved within return – [are not necessarily] true of consumption, whether of a charakter or of a wohnhaft drug.” We do leid disagree with behauptung observations. However, we have deliberately kept ur philosophical benutzerkonto of love “thin” because there is no authoritative erklarung to which we could appeal (meer Earp, Wudarczyk, Sandberg, and Savulescu 2013), and because we expect that different readers will have very different notions of what love “really had been” (in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions) tora the highest stand of conceptual analysis. Thus we speak of “love-related” behaviors or feelings, which can beryllium reasonably well explained hinein wieviel kostet wamba 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, weltmeer Earp, Sandberg, and Savulescu (2015).
