Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, where we’re highlighting the patterns that connect across disciplines, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on how a new approach to life and mind might better address the urgent divides and challenges 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). Your ideas and collaboration are welcome. Sign up for the newsletter here.

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

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

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?

Adaptive Resilience with Maria Santacaterina
Adaptive Resiliency for Humans and A.I. with Maria Santacaterina and Andrea Hiott

How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini
Moving beyond Western Philosophy with bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini and Andrea Hiott

Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist
On Becoming with Iain McGilchrist and Andrea Hiott
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Embracing Paradox.
A Light Little Guide for the Times (44 pages)
This is Book One of the Embracing Paradox 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.