All Episodes

#89 Wrestling is Part of It: Care Ethics, Motherhood, Embodiment & the Meaning in Dependency with Journalist Elissa Strauss

BONUS: Moving From Worry to Wonder with Isabela Granic of Liminal Learning (Guest Podcast: Life Itself with Jacob Kishere)

#88 How Life Works Beyond Genes: the New Biology of Meaning with scientist and author Philip Ball

#87 the Money Koan: towards a new philosophy of curren(t)cy and care with investor Jenna Nicholas

#86 A.A. Kostas and his WayMarkers (including Chris McCandless, C.S. Lewis, Robert Pirsig, Thomas Merton, D.T. Suzuki, & Christian mystics)

#85 Punk, Tech & Care: B. Scot Rousse on Being Human in the Age AI and Ambassadors of Possibility (Dreyfus, Flores, Heidegger, Kierkegaard)

#84 There is No Average Individual: The Great Psychology Delusion with Marek McGann

BONUS Performance of your life: Is acting inherent to being human? Sophie Fiennes, Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod, Macbeth

#83 Wisdom Gates and Serious Play: Paradox, Care and Discovery with Puzzle-Maker Jasen Robillard

#82 Philosophy of the Heart with Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy

#81 Changing Minds, Metaphysics, and a Life in Analytic Philosophy with Janet Levin of USC

Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy

Curiosity as a Practice and the Capacity to Connect with philosopher Perry Zurn (from the archive)

Love, Life and Logic: Another Dialectic with Hegelian scholar Karen Ng (from the archive)

What Relates Creates with life & computer scientist Richard Watson (from the archive)

Trust, Games and Sculpting Agency with C. Thi Nguyen (new edit from the archive)

#80 Pure Consciousness with analytic philosopher Thomas Metzinger

#79 Loving to Know and Subsidiary Focal Integration with Esther Lightcap Meek

Hippocampus Love: Action at a Distance and the bridge of Memory, Part 4 with Lynn Nadel BONUS

#78 Holding Love & Power (Without Losing Either) with policy advisor Jamie Bristow

#77 Evolving Language by Embracing Paradox with Lisa Maroski

#76 The Care of Things: Philosophy of Maintenance & Making Things Last with Jérome Denis and David Pontille

#75 Hyperscanning & Human Connection: Synchronization and the Third Brain with Biologist Nicolás Hinrichs

Moving Beyond Binaries in Education: Andrea Hiott in Conversation with Tim Logan on Future Learning Design

#74 the Dynamics of Holding and Sharing: Authenticity, Maps, Masks & Voicecraft with Tim Adalin

Hippocampus Love: The Neural Representation Debate & Cognitive Maps with Lynn Nadel (BONUS EPISODE)

#73 Life Together on the Möbius Strip with author, educator and activist Parker Palmer

#72 Rethinking Cognition: Posthumanism to Planetary Ecology with Professor Katherine Hayles

#71 Dialectics, Democracy & the Phenomenology of Double Consciousness with Lucius Outlaw Jr.

#70 Fractal Rubik's Cube & the Big Machine with futurist polymath Michael Garfield

#69 The philosophy of Bioregionalism with Félix de Rosen

#68: Loving, Knowing and Participatory Sense-making with philosopher Hanne De Jaegher

Summer of 2024: Synapses of Life with Shoma Chaudhury

#67: Autonomy, Autopoiesis & the Enactive Approach with philosopher Ezequiel Di Paolo (Mirko Prokop)

#66 Harmonizing the Dao with analytic philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel

#65 Play & Meaningful Uncertainty: Active Inference and the Intellectual Sweet Spot with Julian Kiverstein of Amsterdam UMC

#64: Complimentary Science & the Lure of Convenience with philosopher of technology Sabina Leonelli (Fotis Tsiroukis)

#63 Shaping Habits Together: life's changes and challenges with cognitive scientist Mark Michael James

Kaleidoscopic Cognition: Beyond Dichotomy

#62: Living Philosophically and Thinking Wild with professor of technology Jessica Böhme

#61: Burning to Give Light: the delicate balance of illness and insight with former Wall Streeter Tom Morgan

#60: The Dao of Complexity with theoretical physicist Jean Boulton

#59: Complexity Coding, Residuality Theory & the Hyperliminal: being flexible and rigid at once with architect Barry O'Reilly

#58: Hill Making & Lessons for Living with WIRED co-founder Kevin Kelly

#57: Complexity Fatigue & the Third Entity with philosophers and neuroscientists Beck Todd, Shay Welch and Penijean Gracefire

BONUS: A Quick Podcast about Podcast(s) with Andrea & Fotis

#56: Radical Incompleteness & Windows of Ritournelle with poet philosopher Bayo Akomolafe

#55: How Shall we Live? with anthropologist and lineologist Tim Ingold

#54: Project Love: What We Make & How it Makes Us with service designer Clive Grinyer

#53: Another Needful Freedom: Truth in Tension with Mike Brock, ex-tech-exec, reluctant Cassandra

#52: We Are Not Machines! Agency & Science beyond Computationalism with Fotis and Yogi (Johannes Jaeger)

#51: Body Knowledge with philosophers Shay Welch and Elena Cuffari

#50: Love and Liberation in Times of Crisis with philosopher Rupert Read (and Wittgenstein)

#49: Empowerment in Robotics: Solo Brainstorm & AI Bonus Conversation with Dari Trendafilov

#48: In Defense of the Human Being with Thomas Fuchs

#47: Love Beyond Subject and Object with therapist & neuroscientist Mark Solms

#46: Rhythms of Nature & Love: Hegel's Concept of Life with philosopher Karen Ng

#45: Living Beyond the Blind Spot with Philosopher Evan Thompson

#44: The Flow of Life: An Unusual Winter Walk with Karl Friston and his Free Energy Principle

#43: Environment is Not in the Head: Why everyone's talking about Affordances with Harry Heft

#42: Academic dissonance, unexpected paths & process with neuroscientist and Brain Inspired Paul Middlebrooks

#41: Paths of Power and Paradox with Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge

#40: All Those Yesterdays: a lifelong conversation with poet-philosopher John Koethe

#39: The Real World and its Many Models with philosopher Michela Massimi

Holding Paradox: Beyond Dichotomies

#38: What is Consciousness and Where Can We Find It? with philosopher & computer scientist Bernardo Kastrup

#37: Our Entanglement: Striving with problems (in a good way) with philosopher Alva Noë

#36: Feeling into the Source of Self with neuropsychologist Mark Solms

#35: Embracing Everyday Battles: Design as Philosophy with Sheng-Hung Lee

#34: Heideggerian Robots of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science with Michael Wheeler and Mirko Prokop

#33: Synchronizing Mind, Nature, and Neuroscience: Spacetime Experimentation with Georg Northoff

#32: The Minds of Plants with Paco Calvo: Are plants intelligent?

#31: Power in Polarity? Rethinking opposition in design and life with Alastair Duckworth

#30: Swimming Against the Fame Stream: the Power in Taking Life Slowly and with Purpose, Lucas Vos

#29: Pattern Language, Wholeness and Place-synergy: discussing Christopher Alexander with geographer David Seamon

#28: Remembering Human Resilience in the age of A.I. with Maria Santacaterina

#27: Disrupting Expectations: Existential Life and Love with philosopher Skye Cleary

#26: Saving Yourself by Being Yourself with the legendary Darryl Pinckney

#25: How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini: Moving beyond Western philosophy

#24: Taking Category Theory to Heart: The Personal Side of Mathematics with Brandon Baylor

#23: Any Human Power: Thinking Thrutopia instead of Dystopia with Manda Scott

#22: Maps are Their Own Territory with Mahault Albarracin

PhD Talks: Thinking Through Life: New approaches to sustainable heritage with Jonathan Doe

#21: Knowing and the Known: Consciousness, Cognition and Joint Speech with Fred Cummins

PhD Talks: Can we model cognition? And what is a model anyway? with Paul Kelly

#20: What is Intelligence? Brains, Evolution, and A.I. with Max Bennett

#19: Is anything objective? Philosophy of mind, Biophilia, and why A.I. is not what we think with Inês Hipólito

#18: BrainGPT, Neuroscience & Loving the Ants in Ourselves with Brad Love

#17: How Not to Waste a Life: Asymmetrical Reconciliation with Iain McGilchrist

BONUS: Intention and Elizabeth Anscombe with Mirko Prokop

#16: Higher Order Math and Love with Carlos Zapata Carratalá

PhD Talks: Scaling Autonomous Self-Actualization with Timo Schuler

#13: An Economic Love for Humanity with Paddy LeFlufy (with EMI)

#14: The Art of Conversation with Paul Holdengräber

#12: Among Superheroes: Memories, Maps & McGill with psychologist Lynn Nadel

#11: From Ants to Active Inference with Daniel Ari Friedman

#10: Pattern, Meaning and Integration with author Jeremy Lent

#9: Nature and Clarity with biologist Michael Levin

#8: What Can a Computer Be? with Flora Moon and Esteban Montero

#7: Mutual Transformative Change with Richard Watson

#6: Scales & Science Fiction with Michael Levin

#5: The Power of Focus with C. Thi Nguyen

#4: Crossing Bounds and Philosophy of Love Improv with Dr. Alex Moseley

#3: Internal & External Coherence with Lisa Fitzhugh

#2: Curious Minds & Edge-working with Perry Zurn