Start Here
A link trail to follow as you sense fits. Follow the path that fits where you're standing.
The Framework
Navigational Approach to Embodied Cognition — NAEC The philosophical and scientific spine of Andrea's work. Start with the Springer Nature paper — Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale, from Remembering to Navigating — free to read and download. Over 11,000 accesses.
Some of the Books
Holding Paradox — Iff Books, September 2025 The philosophical introduction to NAEC. Pre-order now.
How to Be Alive — Harper One, 2027 A personal exploration of NAEC for a general audience. Join the waitlist.
Thinking Small — Random House A philosophical history of the Volkswagen Beetle and what it reveals about thinking as movement. Available now.
Embracing Paradox — Making Ways A 44-page guide to holding contradictory ideas without collapsing them. Pay what you want. Included with paid Waymaking subscription.
AI Everywhere — She Writes AI community, co-authored. Available now.
Some of the Writing
Waymaking Substack — Andrea's personal philosophical home. Where NAEC is built in real time, where philosophy and ordinary life intersect. Free and paid tiers.
Vulnerable Voice Memos — Paid tier on Waymaking. Personal, unpolished recordings from inside the research. For those who want that kind of proximity.
Love & Philosophy Substack — The primary community newsletter. Beyond dichotomy. It's reasonable to care.
Some of the Conversations
YouTube — Love & Philosophy with Andrea Hiott — 300 conversations with scientists, philosophers, artists, and thinkers working beyond either/or. 86,000 subscribers.
Start here if you're new: Navigational Mind — Andrea explains NAEC in her own words. Karl Friston conversation — (add link) Michael Levin conversation — (add link) Manda Scott conversation — (add link)
Beyond Dichotomy Podcast — Listen on your favourite platform.
Ways to join with the Community
Making Ways — A multimedia care collective and community for philosophical inquiry across every boundary that usually keeps disciplines and people apart.
Care Community — Free global community for people across all disciplines for whom care shapes their practice.
Philosophy Index — Free index bridging academic and independent philosophy.
Love & Philosophy — The broader project. Beyond dichotomy. It's reasonable to care.
Some of the Research
Springer Nature paper — Radical Embodied Relation at any Scale — Open access. Free to read.
Universität Heidelberg — Doctoral research, philosophy faculty.
Get in Touch
To contribute a conversation to Love & Philosophy or to help build what this is becoming: admin@loveandphilosophy.com
To sustain this work as an individual or organization in a way that keeps it free and unconstrained: admin@loveandphilosophy.com
Studied neuroscience, stayed a philosopher. Slipping out of either/or frames and into constellations of care. Developing the Navigational Approach to Embodied Cognition (NAEC). Next books: Holding Paradox (Iff Books) and How to Be Alive (Harper One, 2027).