Philosophy and Psychedelics (eBook, ePUB)

Frameworks for Exceptional Experience
Redaktion: Hauskeller, Christine; Sjöstedt-Hughes, Peter

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness? What impact have psychedelics had on philosophy?

In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental philosophical questions relating to human experience, ethics, and the metaphysics of mind.

Mapping a range of philosophical responses to the surge in studies into psychedelic drugs in the cognitive sciences, this go-to volume examines topics including psychedelics and the role of governance; psychedelics and mysticism; what psychedelics can tell us about dyadic thankfulness; and psychedelics as ways to gain new knowledge.

Written by leading international scholars, the essays cover Western and non-Western traditions, from analytic philosophy to Zen Buddhism, and discuss a variety of hallucinogens, such as LSD, MDMA, and Ayahuasca, in order to build a much-needed bridge between the rapidly growing scientific research and the philosophy behind psychedelic experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350231634
• Artikelnr.: 63899865

Autorenporträt

Peter Sjöstedt Hughes is Research Fellow and Associate Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. Christine Hauskeller is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Christine Hauskeller(University of Exeter
UK) 1. Transpersonal Gratitude and Psychedelic Altered States of Consciousness
Taline Artinian (University of Exeter
UK) 2. What is Real(ity)?
John H. Buchanan (Centre for Process Studies
USA) 3. A Cultural History of Psychedelics in the US
Kyle Buller
Joe Moore
and Lenny Gibson (Dreamshadow Group
USA) 4. Power and the Sublime in Aldous Huxley's Drug Aesthetics
Robert Dickins (Psychedelic Press
UK) 5. Decolonizing the Philosophy of Psychedelics
Osiris Sinuhé González Romero (University of Saskatchewan
Canada) 6. Making Your Soul Visible
Michael Halewood (University of Essex
UK) 7. Individualization and Alienation: Paradoxes in Psychedelic Psychotherapy
Christine Hauskeller (University of Exeter
UK) 8. Walter Benjamin and Herbert Marcuse: Psychedelics and Revolution
Fernando Huesca Ramon (Meritorius Autonomous University of Puebla
Mexico) 9. Mary on Acid: Experiences of Unity and the Epistemic Gap
Jussi Jylkkä (Åbo Akademi University
Finland) 10. Are Psychedelic Drugs Distorting?
Ole Martin Moen (Oslo Metropolitan University
Norway) 11. The Unconscious in Zen and Psychedelic Experience
Steve Odin (University of Hawai?i
USA) 12. Altered Consciousness after Descartes: Whitehead's Philosophy of Organism as Psychedelic Realism
Matthew D. Segall (California Institute of Integral Studies
USA) 13. The White Sun of Substance: Spinozism and the Psychedelic Amor Dei Intellectualis
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes (University of Exeter
UK) 14. Journeying in the Realm of the Unconscious: Jung's Liber Novus and Psychedelic Experience
Johanna Hilla Sopanen (University of Exeter
UK) 15. Arguments for the Psychedelic Cure of Western Philosophy
Michel Weber (University of Saskatchewan
Canada) Index