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.
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
Planta Sapiens with Paco Calvo
Are plants sentient? Are they intelligent?
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
From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman
From studying ants with Deborah Gordan to creating the Active Inference Institute with Karl Friston
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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.
