Focusing on Care: Field Notes from Love and Philosophy

Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy: Way Making, Care, and a New Season

Andrea 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 “way making”: how we find our way and how our way makes us. Drawing from philosophy, neuroscience, urban planning, ecology, biology, and navigability heuristics, she reframes life’s most crucial action as care, challenging fixed separations like ontology, epistemology, and axiology and emphasizing “constellation” or kaleidoscopic thinking over either/or dichotomies. She previews more rigorous work addressing questions about consciousness, representation, agency, self, mind, and technology through the lens of care, and mentions an upcoming book, Holding Paradox. A new season begins tomorrow March 17 with philosopher Janet Levine, releasing monthly episodes on the 17th, with show notes summarizing key ideas from the past two years.

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00:00 Welcome and Project Update
00:27 Waymaking as Core Question
01:03 Care as Life’s Foundation
03:48 Beyond Either Or Thinking
04:49 Books and Rigorous Philosophy Ahead
06:38 New Season Schedule and Thanks
07:15 Support the Work
07:43 The Hard Parts and Staying in Care
08:31 Show Notes Summary and Closing Good Wishes

Field Notes at https://making-ways.kit.com/01025445f6