Love & Philosophy

By Beyond Dichotomy | Andrea Hiott

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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.




Episode Date
#86 A.A. Kostas and his WayMarkers (including Chris McCandless, C.S. Lewis, Robert Pirsig, Thomas Merton, D.T. Suzuki, & Christian mystics)
May 07, 2026
#85 Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the Age AI (Dreyfus, Flores, Heidegger, Kierkegaard)
Apr 27, 2026
#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann
Apr 17, 2026
BONUS Performance of your life: Is acting inherent to being human? Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth
Apr 10, 2026
#83 Wisdom Gates and Serious Play: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard
Apr 07, 2026
#82 Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy
Mar 27, 2026
#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC
Mar 18, 2026
Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy
Mar 16, 2026
Curiosity as a Practice and the Capacity to Connect with philosopher Perry Zurn (from the archive)
Mar 07, 2026
Love, Life and Logic: Another Dialectic with Hegelian scholar Karen Ng (from the archive)
Feb 17, 2026
What Relates Creates with life & computer scientist Richard Watson (from the archive)
Feb 03, 2026
Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with C. Thi Nguyen (new edit from the archive)
Jan 23, 2026
#80 Pure Consciousness with Thomas Metzinger
Jan 01, 2026
#79 Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek
Dec 23, 2025
Hippocampus Love: Action at a Distance and the bridge of Memory, Part 4 with Lynn Nadel BONUS
Dec 14, 2025
#78 Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either) with policy advisor Jamie Bristow
Dec 07, 2025
#77 Evolving Language by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski
Nov 30, 2025
#76 The Care of Things: Philosophy of Maintenance & Making Things Last with Jérome Denis and David Pontille
Nov 23, 2025
#75 Hyperscanning & Human Connection: Synchronization and the Third Brain with Biologist Nicolás Hinrichs
Nov 11, 2025
Moving Beyond Binaries in Education: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan on Future Learning Design
Oct 31, 2025
#74 the Dynamics of Holding and Sharing: Authenticity, Maps, Masks & Voicecraft with Tim Adalin
Oct 23, 2025
Hippocampus Love: The Neural Representation Debate & Cognitive Maps with Lynn Nadel (BONUS EPISODE)
Oct 14, 2025
#73 Life Together on the Möbius Strip with author, educator and activist Parker Palmer
Oct 03, 2025
#72 Rethinking Cognition: Posthumanism to Planetary Ecology with Professor Katherine Hayles
Sep 23, 2025
#71 Dialectics, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness with Lucius Outlaw Jr.
Sep 14, 2025
#70 Fractal Rubik's Cube & the Big Machine with futurist polymath Michael Garfield
Sep 07, 2025
#69 The philosophy of Bioregionalism with Félix de Rosen
Aug 25, 2025
#68: Loving, Knowing and Participatory Sense-making with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher
Aug 21, 2025
Summer of 2024: Synapses of Life with Shoma Chaudhury
Aug 12, 2025
#67: Autonomy, Autopoiesis & the Enactive Approach with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo (Mirko Prokop)
Aug 02, 2025
#66 Harmonizing the Dao with analytic philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel
Jul 24, 2025
#65 Play & Meaningful Uncertainty: Active Inference and the Intellectual Sweet Spot with Julian Kiverstein of Amsterdam UMC
Jul 16, 2025
#64: Complimentary Science & the Lure of Convenience with philosopher of technology Sabina Leonelli (Fotis Tsiroukis)
Jul 09, 2025
#63 Shaping Habits Together: life's changes and challenges with cognitive scientist Mark Michael James
Jun 29, 2025
Kaleidoscopic Cognition: Beyond Dichotomy
Jun 23, 2025
#62: Living Philosophically and Thinking Wild with professor of technology Jessica Böhme
Jun 19, 2025
#61: Burning to Give Light: the delicate balance of illness and insight with former Wall Streeter Tom Morgan
Jun 11, 2025
#60: The Dao of Complexity with theoretical physicist Jean Boulton
Jun 03, 2025
#59: Complexity Coding, Residuality Theory & the Hyperliminal: being flexible and rigid at once with architect Barry O'Reilly
May 18, 2025
#58: Hill Making & Lessons for Living with WIRED co-founder Kevin Kelly
May 06, 2025
#57: Complexity Fatigue & the Third Entity with philosophers and neuroscientists Beck Todd, Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire
Apr 25, 2025
BONUS: A Quick Podcast about Podcast(s) with Andrea & Fotis
Apr 19, 2025
#56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with poet philosopher Bayo Akomolafe
Apr 10, 2025
#55: How Shall we Live? with anthropologist and lineologist Tim Ingold
Mar 30, 2025
#54: Project Love: What We Make & How it Makes Us with service designer Clive Grinyer
Mar 22, 2025
#53: Another Needful Freedom: Truth in Tension with Mike Brock, ex-tech-exec, reluctant Cassandra
Mar 14, 2025
#52: We Are Not Machines! Agency & Science beyond Computationalism with Fotis and Yogi (Johannes Jaeger)
Mar 05, 2025
#51: Body Knowledge with philosophers Shay Welch and Elena Cuffari
Feb 27, 2025
#50: Love and Liberation in Times of Crisis with philosopher Rupert Read (and Wittgenstein)
Feb 13, 2025
#49: Empowerment in Robotics: Solo Brainstorm & AI Bonus Conversation with Dari Trendafilov
Jan 31, 2025
#48: In Defense of the Human Being with Thomas Fuchs
Jan 27, 2025
#47: Love Beyond Subject and Object with therapist & neuroscientist Mark Solms
Jan 24, 2025
#46: Rhythms of Nature & Love: Hegel's Concept of Life with philosopher Karen Ng
Jan 15, 2025
#45: Living Beyond the Blind Spot with Philosopher Evan Thompson
Jan 01, 2025
#44: The Flow of Life: An Unusual Winter Walk with Karl Friston and his Free Energy Principle
Dec 25, 2024
#43: Environment is Not in the Head: Why everyone's talking about Affordances with Harry Heft
Dec 19, 2024
#42: Academic dissonance, unexpected paths & process with neuroscientist and Brain Inspired Paul Middlebrooks
Dec 11, 2024
#41: Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge
Dec 04, 2024
#40: All Those Yesterdays: a lifelong conversation with poet-philosopher John Koethe
Nov 28, 2024
#39: The Real World and its Many Models with philosopher Michela Massimi
Nov 21, 2024
Holding Paradox: Beyond Dichotomies
Nov 21, 2024
#38: What is Consciousness and Where Can We Find It? with philosopher & computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup
Nov 14, 2024
#37: Our Entanglement: Striving with problems (in a good way) with philosopher Alva Noë
Nov 07, 2024
#36: Feeling into the Source of Self with neuropsychologist Mark Solms
Oct 30, 2024
#35: Embracing Everyday Battles: Design as Philosophy with Sheng-Hung Lee
Oct 23, 2024
#34: Heideggerian Robots of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science with Michael Wheeler and Mirko Prokop
Oct 17, 2024
#33: Synchronizing Mind, Nature, and Neuroscience: Spacetime Experimentation with Georg Northoff
Oct 10, 2024
#32: The Minds of Plants with Paco Calvo: Are plants intelligent?
Oct 02, 2024
#31: Power in Polarity? Rethinking opposition in design and life with Alastair Duckworth
Sep 25, 2024
#30: Swimming Against the Fame Stream: the Power in Taking Life Slowly and with Purpose, Lucas Vos
Sep 23, 2024
#29: Pattern Language, Wholeness and Place-synergy: discussing Christopher Alexander with geographer David Seamon
Sep 08, 2024
#28: Remembering Human Resilience in the age of A.I. with Maria Santacaterina
Aug 25, 2024
#27: Disrupting Expectations: Existential Life and Love with philosopher Skye Cleary
Aug 12, 2024
#26: Saving Yourself by Being Yourself with the legendary Darryl Pinckney
Aug 06, 2024
#25: How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini: Moving beyond Western philosophy
Jul 30, 2024
#24: Taking Category Theory to Heart: The Personal Side of Mathematics with Brandon Baylor
Jul 24, 2024
#23: Any Human Power: Thinking Thrutopia instead of Dystopia with Manda Scott
Jul 14, 2024
#22: Maps are Their Own Territory with Mahault Albarracin
Jul 13, 2024
PhD Talks: Thinking Through Life: New approaches to sustainable heritage with Jonathan Doe
Jul 08, 2024
#21: Knowing and the Known: Consciousness, Cognition and Joint Speech with Fred Cummins
Jul 07, 2024
PhD Talks: Can we model cognition? And what is a model anyway? with Paul Kelly
Jun 30, 2024
#20: What is Intelligence? Brains, Evolution, and A.I. with Max Bennett
Jun 21, 2024
#19: Is anything objective? Philosophy of mind, Biophilia, and why A.I. is not what we think with Inês Hipólito
Jun 05, 2024
#18: BrainGPT, Neuroscience & Loving the Ants in Ourselves with Brad Love
May 30, 2024
#17: How Not to Waste a Life: Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist
May 05, 2024
BONUS: Intention and Elizabeth Anscombe with Mirko Prokop
May 01, 2024
#16: Higher Order Math and Love with Carlos Zapata Carratalá
Apr 26, 2024
PhD Talks: Scaling Autonomous Self-Actualization with Timo Schuler
Apr 17, 2024
#13: An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy (with EMI)
Apr 08, 2024
#14: The Art of Conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Mar 24, 2024
#12: Among Superheroes: Memories, Maps & McGill with psychologist Lynn Nadel
Mar 09, 2024
#11: From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman
Jan 23, 2024
#10: Pattern, Meaning and Integration with author Jeremy Lent
Jan 08, 2024
#9: Nature and Clarity with biologist Michael Levin
Dec 24, 2023
#8: What Can a Computer Be? with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero
Dec 23, 2023
#7: Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson
Nov 29, 2023
#6: Scales & Science Fiction with Michael Levin
Nov 02, 2023
#5: The Power of Focus with C. Thi Nguyen
Oct 07, 2023
#4: Crossing Bounds and Philosophy of Love Improv with Dr. Alex Moseley
Sep 23, 2023
#3: Internal & External Coherence with Lisa Fitzhugh
Sep 01, 2023
#2: Curious Minds & Edge-working with Perry Zurn
Aug 31, 2023