Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, where we’re highlighting the patterns that connect across science, technology and philosophy, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on how a new approach to life and mind might better address the urgent divides and challenges we face. We think of it as way-making.
Way-making is a term inspired by Taoism, and can be understood as the movement of the body as well as the movement of the mind: “Way-making blunts the sharp edges and untangles the knots; it softens the glare and brings things together on the same track.” (Ames and Hall, 2003). Your ideas and collaboration are welcome. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Hill Making with tech maverick Kevin Kelly
“hill-making and lessons for living
Complexity Fatigue and the Third Entity
“participatory sense-making”
How shall we live? Look to the lines.
“life is lived in lines”
Spacetime Folds & Windows of Ritournelle with Bayo Akomolafe
“love is the radial incompleteness of everything”
Project Love
Project Love: What We Make and How it Makes Us with designer Clive Grinyer
Needful Freedom in the context of Silicon Valley with Mike Brock
A tech entrepreneur turns to philosophy
We are Not Machines! with Johannes Jaeger
We are not machines with Yogi and Fotis
Body Knowledge
Body Knowledge and 4E Cognition
Love in Times of Crisis
love in a time of crisis with Wittgenstein and Rupert Read
Empowerment in Robotics with Dari
empowerment in robotics and real life
In Defence of the Human Being
“beyond self-hatred and narcissism to love and conviviality” with philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs of Universität Heidelberg
Free Love: Rethinking Hegel’s Concept of Life with Karen Ng
Hegel and the tradition of Jena might be another way we can better understand the continuity of mind and life. The problem of contradiction might be a portal of paradox.
How to see the Blind Spot with philosopher Evan Thompson
How can we see the blind spot in philosophy and science? And why is the key to the meaning crisis and its ecological ramifications? with Evan Thompson
Living in Flow with the most famous man in neuroscience
He’s been called the most famous man in neuroscience and he certainly has one of the hightest h-index scores but the real value requires some belief updates.
Why we are all talking about ‘affordances’ with Harry Heft
Why are we all talking about affordances? Who was JJ Gibson and what did he have to do with William James? A look into ecological psychology with Harry Heft.
Academic Dissonance and Unexpected Paths
Academia, living in an RV, starting a neuroscience podcast and issues of computation and representation
All Those Yesterdays
All those yesterdays: the oscillating self with John Koethe
Paths and Power of Paradox
Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami
The Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Life after Life with philosopher Alva Noë
The Entanglement with Alva Noë
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Embracing Paradox.
A Light Little Guide for the Times (44 pages)
This is Book One of the Embracing Paradox series published by Making Ways. It’s about the ability to hold seemingly contradictory ideas in mind at once, while maintaining motivation and meaning in troubled times.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." This book is a step in that direction.
