Paradoxical practices of letting be
About
My name is Hanne De Jaegher, and I’m a philosopher and a cognitive scientist.
Together with Ezequiel Di Paolo, I introduced the theory of participatory sense-making. Its applications across the cognitive sciences, philosophy, social sciences, psychiatry, neuroscience, education, and the arts can be traced here.
Previously an associate professor of philosophy, I am now building a practice of interdependent writing, researching, teaching, and mentoring/consulting — finding the connecting moves, in short.
I offer paradoxical practices, office hours and an open studio for participatory sense-making, and workshops and courses that I hope are woven through with experiential-conceptual wonder.
My D.Phil. (2007) is from the University of Sussex and I have training in several dialogical and interpersonal practices. I studied in Brussels (BE), Brighton (UK), and worked in Heidelberg (DE), Donostia (ES), Vancouver (CA). I now live in the East Kootenays, on the traditional, unceded territories of the Ktunaxa.
bookings
Hanne is available for presentations, writing, courses, workshops, consulting, mentoring and advising, online and worldwide.
Books
Linguistic Bodies (2018, MIT Press). Di Paolo, Cuffari & De Jaegher
Denken over liefde (2018, Letterwerk). De Jaegher
Writings
—between theory and intimacy
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My husband’s nephew and his wife are coming to visit tonight, and I was — as I usually do — practicing in my head possible dialogues that might spin out. Doing this today helped me formulate something I’ve been trying to say for a long time. So, I was imagining them asking me, since we’d…
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Life, information, and the search for meaning New piece out on IAI news: Many claim informational systems cannot be truly creative in the way human artists are because they lack human emotion and originality. But philosopher and cognitive scientist, Hanne De Jaegher, argues the issue is deeper still: AI is not alive. It has no…