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Carol Gilligan: “To care is to be present, it’s to have a voice, it’s to be in relationship.”

This is so important, I have to share it. Below is a video of Carol Gilligan, giving a talk at MIT about relationship, love, and voice in developmental psychology, ethics, and politics. Title: “Learning to See in the Dark: The Roots of Ethical Resistance” (April 24, 2009). You can also find it here: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/729 http://mitworld.mit.edu/flash/player/Main.swf?host=cp58255.edgefcs.net&flv=mitw-01214-dalai-lama-center-roots-ethical-resistance-gilligan-24apr2009&preview=http://mitworld.mit.edu//uploads/mitwstill01214dalailamacenterrootsethicalresistancegilligan24apr2009.jpg […]

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Enaction versus representation – an opinion piece

(Published as: De Jaegher, H. (2010). Enaction versus representation: an opinion piece. In T. Fuchs, H. Sattel & P. Henningsen (Eds.), The Embodied Self: Dimensions, Coherence and Disorders. Stuttgart: Schattauer.) “The existence of other people is a difficulty and an outrage for objective thought” (Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, p. 349) Current science of intersubjectivity (meaningful […]

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Review of Vasu Reddy’s book How Infants Know Minds

Not a single story about intersubjectivity Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie talks about the danger of a single story (see also the video below).[i] If all you ever heard about Africa concerned poverty, want and misery, how could you imagine there to be creative, witty, educated and self-assured Africans with something to say? Perhaps it would […]