%0 Journal Article
%T The Love of Neuroscience: A Sociological Account
%A Gabriel Abend
%J Sociological Theory
%@ 1467-9558
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0735275118759697
%X I make a contribution to the sociology of epistemologies by examining the neuroscience literature on love from 2000 to 2016. I find that researchers make consequential assumptions concerning the production or generation of love, its temporality, its individual character, and appropriate control conditions. Next, I consider how to account for these assumptions¡¯ being common in the literature. More generally, I¡¯m interested in the ways in which epistemic communities construe, conceive of, and publicly represent and work with their objects of inquiry¡ªand what¡¯s thereby assumed about them and about the world. I argue that these implicit or explicit assumptions are a distinct type of explanandum, whose distinctiveness sociology hasn¡¯t adequately appreciated and taken advantage of. I think it should and I hope it will
%K neuroscience
%K neural correlates
%K love
%K knowledge
%K science
%K sociology of epistemologies
%K assumptions
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0735275118759697