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.
Disrupting Expectations with Skye Cleary
Disrupted Expectations: Existential Life and Love through the eyes of Simone de Beauvoir and Skye Cleary and Andrea Hiott
How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini
Moving beyond Western Philosophy with bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini and Andrea Hiott
Being yourself to save yourself with Darryl Pinckney
New York City in the 1970s and what it means to be avant-garde with Darryl Pinckney and Andrea Hiott.
Taking Category Theory to Heart with Brandon Baylor
The personal side of mathematics and how it applies to relational life with Brandon Boyd and Andrea Hiott.
Sometimes a Map is also Its Territory with Mahault Albarracin
Sometimes a map is its own territory with Mahault Albarracin
Any Human Power: Thrutopias instead of Dystopias or Utopias
Thrutopia and Any Human Power with Manda Scott and Andrea Hiott
Can we model cognition?
And what are models anyway? On the mechanistic and dynamic
I Am Because We Are
I am Because We Are
The African philosophy of “ubuntu” offers a way of living that begins with the premise that “I am” only because “we are.” How does this relate to heritage?
Is anything objective?
Is anything Objective?
Philosophy of Mind, Biophilia, and Why A.I. is Not What You Think with Ines Hipolito and Andrea Hiott
Brain GPT and Rethinking Neuroscience with Brad Love of University College London
Brain GPT and Rethinking Neuroscience with Turing Fellow Brad Love
Memory and Navigation As it Happened with John Kubie
Neuroscience of Memory and Navigation with John Kubie
Human Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Evolution with Max Bennett
A Brief History of Intelligence with Max Bennett and Andrea Hiott
Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist
On Becoming with Iain McGilchrist and Andrea Hiott
The Spatial Web and Active Inference A.I. with Denise Holt
Spatial web and active inference A.I.
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
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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.
