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—and 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.

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对神经科学的热爱：社会学的解释

通过研究2000年至2016年关于爱的神经科学文献，我为认识论社会做出了贡献。我发现研究人员对爱的产生或产生，爱的时间性，其个性和适当的控制条件做出了相应的假设。接下来，我考虑如何解释这些假设在文献中的普遍性。更笼统地说，我对认知社区如何构造，构想，公开代表并与他们的调查对象进行合作感兴趣，从而对他们以及对世界的看法感兴趣。我认为这些隐式或显式假设是解释的一种独特类型，其独特性社会学尚未得到充分的重视和利用。我认为应该并且希望如此。