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 an expansive approach to life and mind that explores the connection of loving and knowing.
Though the community includes over 90,000 subscribers across all platforms, the core is a small group of philosophers and scientists working beyond the either/or bounds that often scaffold our academic work and mindsets. New partnerships, ideas and collaborations are welcome.
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FAQ: Andrea’s book ‘Holding Paradox: the navigational approach to mind and consciousness’ is to be published in 2026. The much lighter 44-page Making Ways pamphlet Embracing Paradox is here. If you’re interested in the Making Ways philosophical index, you can sign up for that here.
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Love is never quite what any one of us thinks it is.
Bringing Forth Worlds with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo and Mirko Prokop
Autopoiesis, Autonomy, and the Enactive Approach with Ezequiel Di Paolo
the Weirdness of the World & Harmonizing with the Dao
Weirdness of the World and Harmonizing with the Dao
Paradox of Play and Active Inference: Suprise & Meaning in Everyday Life with Julian Kiverstein
The Paradox of Play and Active Inference: Surprise, Flourishing, and Meaning with senior professor Julian Kiverstein
The Lure of Convenience with Sabina Leonelli
Complimentary Science & the Lures of Convenience with Sabina Leonelli and Fotis
Shaping Habits Together
a practical framework for ‘the Way school’ from cognitive scientist Mark Michael James
Wild Thinking with Jessica Böhme
wild thinking and ekoPhilosophy
Burning to Give with Tom Morgan
wall street, wisdom, woo, illness and insight
Travel expands what was always possible
Travel expands what was always possible
The Dao of Complexity with Jean Boulton
The surprising connections between Doaism and Complexity Science.
Residuality Theory and the Architect’s Paradox with Barry O’Reilly
Can we embrace uncertainty and order at once in our software?
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
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The Embrace of Contradiction.
A Light Little Guide for the Times (44 pages)
This is Book One of the Embracing Paradox pamphlet 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.
