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Love & Philosophy#68: Loving, Knowing and Participatory Sense-making with philosopher Hanne De JaegherSend a love messageGiveSupport with a Subscription4e philosopher of cognitive science Hanne De Jaegher discusses the profound relationship between loving and knowing as intertwined processes. The first in what we hope to be many conversations about this inspirational work. With Andrea, Hanne explores the idea that thinking and feeling emerge from the same fundamental act of sense-making, which is rooted in our basic, biological existence. De Jaegher shares her personal experiences and how they led to her academic journey studying cognitive science, and then to her work on participatory sense-making...
2025-08-211h 36Love & Philosophy#51: Body Knowledge with philosophers Shay Welch and Elena CuffariSend a love message Elena Clare Cuffari is a Professor at Franklin and Marshall College. Shay Welch is a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta. In this episode, they discuss embodied cognition and participatory sensemaking in relation to marginalized body epistemologies. They share insights from a recent conference that brought together diverse perspectives on how embodied cognition intersects with issues of race, gender, and activism. Welch emphasizes that she never separates her scholarship from her personal life, seeing philosophy as inherently connected to her lived experience. Cuffari highlights the collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of her work with c...
2025-02-271h 17
Mind & Life Europe Podcast“Enactive Ethics: Difference Becoming Participation”This episode features three remarkably engaged and engaging thinkers and collaborators. Dr Elena Cuffari, Dr Hanne De Jaegher, and Dr Ezequiel Di Paolo co-authored the magnum opus, Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity Between Life and Language in 2018, which was a much-needed extension of the enactive approach into the realm of language and intersubjectivity. We heard the three of them in dialogue during the final session of our Core Enaction, Semester 4, where we focused on the ethical core of participatory sense-making, with care or non-indifference at its centre. Here, we revisit some of those themes, but with an eye to how...
2024-12-191h 28
Mind & Life Europe Podcast[Trailer] Season 2: Knowing, Being, DoingIn this second season of the podcast, we are prolonging an experiment of sorts that we conducted in the spring of 2024 in the Core Enaction Programme, our online learning curriculum. Over the course of eight sessions, we invited researcher-practitioners into an open space of dialogue to explore how their intersubjective practices might be informed and enriched by participatory sense-making, and how participatory sense-making might in turn benefit from the forms of knowing implicit in these intersubjective practices. The semester paid visit to artists and curators, therapists and teachers, neurodivergent thinkers and AI specialists, musicians and choreographers. A central thread...
2024-12-1103 min
Kaleidoscience: Conversations on Cognitive ScienceS1 #15 Can computers be creative? Brain-to-brain with Assistant Prof. Philipp Wicke.What does it mean for a system to be creative? Can humans and machines be creative together? How has the definition of machine creativity changed over the years?
Philipp Wicke is an Assistant Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian Universität München and is asking exactly these questions in his research.
Listen to this episode if you want to learn more about creative computers and how they have developed and further evolved over the past years!
References:
Boden, Margaret A. “Creativity and artificial intelligence.” Artificial intelligence 103.1-2 (1998): 347-356.
Ventura, Dan. “Mere generation: Essential barometer or dated concept...
2024-05-021h 01