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Romantic love presents some of life's most challenging questions. Can we choose who to love? Is romantic love rational? Can we love more than one person at a time? And can we make ourselves fall out of love?\n\nDr. Berit Brogaard is a Professor of Philosophy with joint appointments in the\xa0Departments of Philosophy\xa0and\xa0Psychology\xa0at the University of Miami as well as the\xa0Network for Sensory Research\xa0at the University of Toronto. Her educational background includes a medical degree in neuroscience and a doctorate in philosophy. Her areas of research include perception, synesthesia, blindsight, consciousness, neuro-psychiatry and emotions.\n\nHer latest book, On Romantic Love: Simple Truths About A Complex Emotion, attempts to get to the bottom of love's many contradictions. The book, informed by both historical and cutting-edge philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience, combines a new theory of romantic love with entertaining anecdotes from real life and accessible explanations of the neuroscience underlying our wildest passions.\n\nAgainst the grain, Dr. Brogaard argues that love is an emotion; that it can be, at turns, both rational and irrational; and that it can be manifested in degrees. We can love one person more than another and we can love a person a little or a lot or not at all. And love isn't even always something we consciously feel. However, love -- like other emotions, both conscious and not -- is subject to rational control, and falling in or out of it can be a deliberate choice.\n\nJoin Dr. Berit Brogaard and me on Tuesday, March 20, 10-11 A.M. CT US. We will be having a conversation about her life\u2019s journey and her innovative look at a universal topic behind heartbreak, obsession, jealousy, attachment, and more.