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.
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
Bernardo Kastrup is an Apple Blossom
What is consciousness?
Embracing Everyday Battles
Embracing Everyday Battles: The Power of Design in Life
Hidden Spring
The Hidden Spring and Consciousness as Feeling with psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist Marc Solms
Synchrony between mind and nature
Fractals of nature in the brain body and world. A new spatiotemporal approach to neuroscience and philosophy.
Planta Sapiens with Paco Calvo
Are plants sentient? Are they intelligent?
Consciousness and Cognition with Cognitive Scientist Fred Cummins
Starting with Fred's unique scholarship and teaching, his nursing background, and his early studies with Douglas Hofstadter, Andrea Hiott & Fred Cummins lay the groundwork for an in-depth discussion on the history and interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science.
Power in Polarity?
The difference between dichotomy and polarity and why holding the paradox might also mean going deeper into polarity.
More than Fame
A young man has just graduated from college and is looking for real meaning and purpose in his life. He's also just found love and gotten married.
Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language, and Place Release
Christopher Alexander, Pattern Language and Place with David Seamon and Andrea Hiott
Adaptive Resilience with Maria Santacaterina
Adaptive Resiliency for Humans and A.I. with Maria Santacaterina and Andrea Hiott
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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.
