I absolutely refuse even to look up the names of all the relevant articles, let alone reread those I haven't read in a while (and it's possible I haven't ever read one of them, though I'm not sure about that, but that very lack of surety is probably good enough for jazz). Elijah Millgram wrote an article for a collection devoted to Iris Murdoch, part of which article was a criticism of Velleman's "Love as a Moral Emotion", which purports to be Murdochian in spirit, in part for (something like) abstracting from the particularity of the individual. Here is my idle thought: is it perhaps the case that the concept of lovin' that Velleman uses in Persons in Prospect, since it is supposed to have as a fitting target only particular individuals in their particularity, is more in line with the Murdochian view as Millgram understands it, and to that extent not in line with the view in "Love as Moral Emotion"?
Beats me, for obvious reasons.
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