Hanne De Jaegher

I’m a philosopher and a cognitive scientist.

I work to better understand inter-subjectivity — how we understand one another — and the roles our bodies and the interaction dynamics that emerge between us play in this.

I’m the original developer, with Ezequiel Di Paolo, of the enactive, conceptual-experiential, philosophical-scientific framework of

participatory sense-making,

which is based in my PhD thesis.

We later deepened it with concepts such as:

languaging (with Elena Cuffari, 2015),
enactive becoming (Di Paolo 2021), and
loving and knowing (De Jaegher 2019).

All of this work serves to understand how meaning is made between us, in the tensions between being ourselves and being in relation, always across differences, situated, and ongoingly becoming.

I RESEARCH
WRITE
TEACH
and COUNSEL/CONSULT*

I also facilitate PRISMA workshops for research and for social change.

All my work concerns

intersubjective complexity.

Understanding what it is, conceptually as well as experientially; finding better ways to language (through) it; and learning how to better navigate it.

Three main resources:

Linguistic Bodies: The Continuity between Life and Language (Di Paolo, Cuffari, De Jaegher, MIT Press, 2017)

The Loving and Knowing paper
(see also this review).