Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, where love is the answer, philosophy is the practice, and paradox is our embrace.
We’re highlighting the patterns that connect across disciplines, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on how our approach to life and mind might address the urgent divides 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 in Boulton, 2024). This project is about exploring seemingly contradictory ways by exploring the making. Your ideas and collaboration are welcome.
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The Song of Life with Richard Watson
The song of life with Richard Watson and philosopher Andrea Hiott
Clarity, Nature, Robots with Mike Levin
Clarity, Nature, Robots with Mike Levin and Andrea Hiott
How do you want to be experienced? One Living System with Cari Taylor
How do you want to be experienced? with Cari Taylor
The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map: Research Converation Part 2 with Lynn Nadel
Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map
An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy
An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy
Higher order math and love with Carlos Zapata Carratalá
Higher order math and love
Conversations as Landscapes with Paul Holdengräber
Conversational conductor and curator Paul Holdengraber who has had bestselling conversations with the likes of Werner Herzog, Jay Z, and Rebecca Solnit.
Among the Superheroes From McGill to UCL with Lynn Nadel: Part 1
From McGill university to the University of College London, Lynn Nadel and John O’Keefe write the famous Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map
From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman
From studying ants with Deborah Gordan to creating the Active Inference Institute with Karl Friston
Elizabeth Anscombe and Ecological Pyschology
Unraveling the Web of Intention: Paper Discussion
An intellectual journey, exploring the intricate relationship between intention, agency, and ecological psychology through Anscombe's philosophical lens.
In Continuum with Mike Levin: Research Conversation Part Two
In Continuum
Scaling Autonomous Self Actualization
scaling autonomous self actualization and how jordan peterson changed a man
Pattern, Meaning & Integration with Jeremy Lent, author of Web of Meaning
Pattern, Meaning and Integration
What can a computer be? with Flora Moon & Esteban Montero
What can a computer be? Where are the boundaries of ecological and technological?
Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson
A new harmonious approach to evolution.
Scales & Sci-Fi with Michael Levin
The first of a multi-part way-making research conversation with Tufts biologist Michael Levin. We discuss his own path and how science fiction helped him see beyond dichotomies. We also discuss the scales of cognition and what it might mean to reorient our understandings of life and mind.
The Power of Focus & Precision of Puzzles with C. Thi Nguyen
A conversation with philosopher and author C. Thi Nguyen about the power of focus, the precision of puzzles, porn, art, vulnerability, and the dangers and delights of gaming and playing.
Crossing bounds with Alex Mosley
Transcript preview:
Andrea: [00:00:00] Hey everybody. So glad you're here. Today we're talking to. Professor Alex Mosley. He also wrote the encyclopedia entry for love and philosophy…. Both of us were trained in philosophy, both analytic and continental, but both of us also have a--what shall I say--more explorative side as well...
Check out the Philosophy of Love encyclopedia article here.
Internal & External Coherence with Lisa Fitzhugh
A powerful conversation with facilitator Lisa Fitzhugh about the coherence between our internal and external worlds. Sometimes we focus so much on cultivating our external persona that we are blind to how such striving affects our private, inner world.
Curious Minds & Edge-work with Perry Zurn
A discussion of network science, Curious Minds and Edge-working with Perry Zurn, a philosopher at American University, and Andrea Hiott, a philosopher at University Heidelberg. Perry is building the new field of Curiosity Studies. We discuss his newest book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection. "Maybe love and curiosity are not two different contexts."
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