loving and knowing
“Knowing as letting be thus happens between knower and known. This means: they are each implicated in this. Letting be is a way of knowing premised on change. These three elements: the knower, the known, and the relationship between them all change. Knowing is changing, for both knower and known and for their relation. This shows the engagement at the heart of knowing.” – De Jaegher 2021
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.…
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…
Have you been wondering what’s the latest on love, cognition, and living well together? Check out this podcast interview, in which I try not to shy away from the difficulties,…
Vandaag, 11 mei 2021, is het 5 jaar geleden dat mijn vader, Luc De Jaegher, stierf. Zijn gedachtegoed, werk, leven, en ziekte zijn lang en diep verweven met mijn denken.…
On 8th December 2020, I presented this paper at the COGS Seminar series at the University of Sussex, my old Alma Mater. Presentation co-organised with Sussex’ ChatLab. This work is…
Na de tweede les op de schrijfcursus geeft Mounir als huiswerk: Schrijf een column van maximaal 350 woorden, over iets wat je meemaakt deze week. Maak het persoonlijk, geef je…
At the till, I hear my partner say to the cashier: “It’s busy today!” It takes a moment, but then he surfaces out of the automatism of scanning groceries. His…
New paper at Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences (open access): De Jaegher, H. (online first 19/08/2019) Loving and knowing. Reflections for an engaged epistemology. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, doi:10.1007/s11097-019-09634-5…
Bij de boekpresentatie van Denken over liefde hoeft geen schrik aan te jagen (11/10/2018, de Groene Waterman, Antwerpen)* las ik deze tekst voor: Aarzeling “We always hesitate when we…