Author L. Candiotto
Biography: Laura Candiotto is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Senior Researcher at the Centre for Ethics of the University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. Before that she held positions at the Free University of Berlin, University of Edinburgh, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and the University of Aix-Marseille. Laura is a philosopher of emotion who works at the intersection of social epistemology, 4E Cognition, and the ethics of knowledge. Her research is focused on the epistemic role of emotions, especially as embedded in embodied social interactions and epistemic cultures. She understands philosophy as a transformative practice with ameliorative aims, both at the personal and at the social level. Among her publications: The Value of Emotions for Knowledge (2019), Emotions in Plato (edited with Olivier Renaut, 2020); “Epistemic Emotions and Co-Inquiry: A Situated Approach” (2022); “Affective Scaffoldings as Habits: A Pragmatist Approach” (with Roberta Dreon, 2021); and “Love in-between” (with Hanne De Jaegher, 2021). Websites:
https://www.emotionsfirst.org;
https://upce.academia.edu/LauraCandiotto
Candiotto L. (2022) Author’s Response: The Space In-Between. Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 214–219. https://cepa.info/7933
Candiotto L.
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2022)
Author’s Response: The Space In-Between.
Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 214–219.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/7933
Abstract: The first set of topics is dedicated to the theoretical framework I employ in my target article. I will explain (a) why sense-making is participatory from the beginning and (b) how a personal communication with a place is possible. The second set of topics tackles my proposal’s ethical and political significance. I will consider (c) the objection on how it is possible to love the unlovable and (d) the question of what should change for us to love nature.
Candiotto L. (2022) Loving the Earth by Loving a Place: A Situated Approach to the Love of Nature. Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 179–189. https://cepa.info/7922
Candiotto L.
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2022)
Loving the Earth by Loving a Place: A Situated Approach to the Love of Nature.
Constructivist Foundations 17(3): 179–189.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/7922
Context: I extend the enactive account of loving in romantic relationships that I developed with Hanne De Jaegher to the love of nature. Problem: I challenge a universal conceptualization of love of nature that does not account for the differences that are inherent to nature. As an alternative, I offer a situated account of loving a place as participatory sense-making. However, a question arises: How is it possible to communicate with the other-than-human? Method: I use panpsychist and enactive conceptual tools to better define this situated approach to the love of nature and to reply to the research question. In particular, I focus on Mathews’s “becoming native” and the generative tensions that unfold in a dialectic of encounter when a common language is not shared. Results: The fundamental difference experienced in encountering the other-than-human is generative for building up the human-Earth connection if we let each other be listened to. I describe the ethical dimension that permeates this type of “enactive listening” at the core of a situated account of love of nature. Implications: Love of nature is of paramount importance in our current climate crisis characterized by environmental anxiety, despair, and anger. A situated love of nature emphasizes the importance of community-based local interventions to preserve the Earth. Love, thus understood as a fundamental moral and political power, is a catalyst for environmental activism. Constructivist content: My article links to participatory sense-making as defined by De Jaegher and Di Paolo, and De Jaegher’s loving epistemology. It offers a broader understanding of participatory sense-making that includes the other-than-human. It also introduces the new concept of “enactive listening.”
Candiotto L. & De Jaegher H. (2021) Love in-between. The Journal of Ethics 25(4): 501–524. https://cepa.info/7687
Candiotto L. & De Jaegher H.
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2021)
Love in-between.
The Journal of Ethics 25(4): 501–524.
Fulltext at https://cepa.info/7687
In this paper, we introduce an enactive account of loving as participatory sense-making inspired by the “I love to you” of the feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray. Emancipating from the fusionist concept of romantic love, which understands love as unity, we conceptualise loving as an existential engagement in a dialectic of encounter, in continuous processes of becoming-in-relation. In these processes, desire acquires a certain prominence as the need to know (the other, the relation, oneself) more. We build on Irigaray’s account of love to present a phenomenology of loving interactions and then our enactive account. Finally, we draw some implications for ethics. These concern language, difference, vulnerability, desire, and self-transformation.
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