Love & Philosophy
It's reasonable to care. Exploring philosophical, scientific, technological & poetic spaces beyond either/or bounds. From the heart. Deeply researched. Mostly unscripted.
Hosted by philosopher and cognitive scientist Andrea Hiott. A project with Making Ways. Buy the book Holding Paradox: The Navigational Approach to Mind and Consciousness. And join the Substack.
Episodes
100 episodes
#85 Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the Age AI (Dreyfus, Flores, Heidegger, Kierkegaard)
B. Scot Rousse (“B”)'s substack, "Without Why," focuses on what it means to be alive in an age of intelligent machines. He is philosopher in residence at Topos Institute and visiting scholar in Philosophy at Berkeley. He also drums in ...
#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann
The Great Psychology Delusion: Why the Mean Misleads and Pluralism MattersRead the book here.This i...
BONUS Performance of your life: Is acting inherent to being human? Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth
This is an impromptu bonus episode previewing the NYC premiere of Sophie Fiennes’s documentary film Acting, which follows the celebrated theatre company Cheek by Jowl through their production of...
#83 Wisdom Gates and Serious Play: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard
Holding Paradox Through Serious Play: Can serious play be a portal to wisdom? This is an episode about puzzles and care. Andrea has a conversation with puzzle maker Jason Robillard (StumpCraft) about how puzzles cultivate new ...
#82 Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy
Facing Reality with Clear Eyes but without Desperation: Scilla Elworthy on Listening with the Heart to Transform Conflict Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Scilla Elworthy reflects on 70 years of work with conflict and war, begi...
#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC
Janet Levin on Physicalism, Zombies, and Changing Minds Andrea hosts philosopher Janet Levin, newly retired after 40 years at USC and the department’s first tenure-track woman hire, to discuss a life in analytic philosophy an...
Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy
Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy: Way Making, Care, and a New SeasonAndrea Hiott introduces Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy and reflects on how a late-2023 research project became a podcast shaped by the guiding question of “wa...
Curiosity as a Practice and the Capacity to Connect with philosopher Perry Zurn (from the archive)
From the archive.Giving PageAndrea introduces an archive episode of Love and Philosophy featuring Perry Zurn, provost and associate p...
Love, Life and Logic: Another Dialectic with Hegelian scholar Karen Ng (from the archive)
From the archive. First aired in Jan of 2025. A conversation about Hegel. Andrea talks with Karen Ng, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. The discussion delves into Hegel's ideas on contradiction, self-consciousnes...
What Relates Creates with life & computer scientist Richard Watson (from the archive)
Love, Science, and the Dynamics of Change: From the ArchiveThis is a replay of an earlier conversation with Richard Watson (which was already an unpublished conversation we'd had earlier, so there's lots of nesting here). Initiall...
Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with C. Thi Nguyen (new edit from the archive)
Trust, Agency, and the Art of Games with C. Thi NguyenRevisting a conversation from late 2023 with philosopher C Thi Nguyen. The discussion delves i...
#80 Pure Consciousness with Thomas Metzinger
AI, Suffering, Remedy and Love as the voluntary suspension of habitual responses into awareness: This episode is with philosopher and cognitive scientist Thomas Metzinger, a Professor Emeritus at
#79 Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek
with philosopher Esther Lightcap Meek, Professor of Philosophy emerita at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvaniaexploring from-to fractals, Michael Polanyi, Meek's Indeterminate Future Manifestations, the difference between in...
Hippocampus Love: Action at a Distance and the bridge of Memory, Part 4 with Lynn Nadel BONUS
Maybe memory is a way we communicate with ourselves and the world at various layers, a bridging experience of what we call time and space.In this episode, Andrea Hiott and
#78 Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either) with policy advisor Jamie Bristow
Hey everybody. This podcast is about seemingly impossible combinations and this one is the doozy of love and power. It’s about the politics of care. Or love in politics. Can you hold those words at once? Can we? We might be surpris...
#77 Evolving Language by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski
This episode, hosted by philosopher Andrea Hiott, explores the concept of embracing paradox with Lisa Maroski, author of 'Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language.' The discussion delves into how our langua...
#76 The Care of Things: Philosophy of Maintenance & Making Things Last with Jérome Denis and David Pontille
Rethinking Everyday Care with Jérome Denis and David PontilleIn this episode of Love and Philosophy, host Andrea explores the often overlooked but essential re...
#75 Hyperscanning & Human Connection: Synchronization and the Third Brain with Biologist Nicolás Hinrichs
Buy L&P its first coffeeNeuroscience, Geometric Hyperscanning, and Real Time RelationAndrea welcomes Nicolás to discuss the cutting-edge neuroscience technique of ...
Moving Beyond Binaries in Education: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan on Future Learning Design
Moving Beyond Binaries in Education - A Conversation with Tim LoganThis bonus episode features a conversation with Tim Logan from his podcast The Future Learning Design. In this episode, Tim and Andrea are discussing advancements and ch...
#74 the Dynamics of Holding and Sharing: Authenticity, Maps, Masks & Voicecraft with Tim Adalin
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Hippocampus Love: The Neural Representation Debate & Cognitive Maps with Lynn Nadel (BONUS EPISODE)
Decoding the Brain: Representation and Relational Memory in Cognitive NeuroscienceGiveSupport with a Subscription...
#73 Life Together on the Möbius Strip with author, educator and activist Parker Palmer
Exploring Life's ParadoxesGiveSupport with a SubscriptionIn this deeply reflective episode of 'Love and Philos...
#72 Rethinking Cognition: Posthumanism to Planetary Ecology with Professor Katherine Hayles
GiveSupport with a SubscriptionA poetic conversation at the intersection of literature, science, and technology with ...