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Philosophy of Psychedelics
Buch von Chris Letheby
Sprache: Englisch

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This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs. Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism.
This book is the first scholarly monograph in English devoted to the philosophical analysis of psychedelic drugs. Its central focus is the apparent conflict between the growing use of psychedelics in psychiatry and the philosophical worldview of naturalism.
Über den Autor
Dr Chris Letheby is a philosopher working on issues related to the therapeutic and transformative potential of classic psychedelic drugs. His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Adelaide, presented the first systematic analysis of psychedelic experience within the framework of 21st century philosophy of cognitive science. He is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide on the Australian government-funded project 'Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry'. He was awarded an Early Career Researcher Prize in 2022 from the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide for this book. In addition he received the Faculty of Arts Prize for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Researcher, from the University of Adelaide.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Introduction

  • On the need for a natural philosophy of psychedelics

  • Introduction

  • The psychedelic renaissance

  • Evidence for safety and efficacy

  • An existential medicine?

  • The Comforting Delusion Objection

  • Naturalizing the entheogenic conception

  • The phenomenology of psychedelic therapy

  • Introduction

  • Perception

  • The sense of self

  • The transformative process

  • Conclusion

  • The mechanisms of psychedelic therapy

  • Introduction

  • Neuroplasticity theories

  • The Metaphysical Belief Theory

  • The Metaphysical Alief Theory

  • Conclusion

  • The role of self-representation

  • Introduction

  • Psychological factors

  • Neural correlates

  • Neurocognitive explanation

  • Conclusion

  • Resetting the brain

  • Introduction

  • The Reset Theory

  • Predictive processing

  • Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics

  • Resetting beliefs under psychedelics

  • Unbinding the self

  • Introduction

  • Predictive self-binding

  • Selfhood embodied and (temporally) extended

  • A centre of representational gravity

  • The self unbound

  • Opacity and mystical epiphanies

  • Psychedelic therapy: a two-factor theory

  • Self and self-consciousness

  • Conclusion

  • Epistemology

  • Introduction

  • Psychopharmacology and epistemology

  • Knowledge that

  • Knowledge how

  • Knowledge by acquaintance

  • New knowledge of old facts

  • Indirect epistemic benefits

  • Epistemic innocence

  • Spirituality

  • Introduction

  • Naturalizing spirituality

  • Spirituality as unselfing

  • Conclusion

  • Testable predictions

  • Future directions

  • Naturalistic entheogenics

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Theoretische Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198843122
ISBN-10: 0198843127
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Letheby, Chris
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Maße: 238 x 158 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Letheby
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,548 kg
Artikel-ID: 119030161
Über den Autor
Dr Chris Letheby is a philosopher working on issues related to the therapeutic and transformative potential of classic psychedelic drugs. His doctoral research, conducted at the University of Adelaide, presented the first systematic analysis of psychedelic experience within the framework of 21st century philosophy of cognitive science. He is currently Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Western Australia and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Adelaide on the Australian government-funded project 'Philosophical Perspectives on Psychedelic Psychiatry'. He was awarded an Early Career Researcher Prize in 2022 from the School of Humanities, University of Adelaide for this book. In addition he received the Faculty of Arts Prize for Outstanding Research by an Early Career Researcher, from the University of Adelaide.

Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • Introduction

  • On the need for a natural philosophy of psychedelics

  • Introduction

  • The psychedelic renaissance

  • Evidence for safety and efficacy

  • An existential medicine?

  • The Comforting Delusion Objection

  • Naturalizing the entheogenic conception

  • The phenomenology of psychedelic therapy

  • Introduction

  • Perception

  • The sense of self

  • The transformative process

  • Conclusion

  • The mechanisms of psychedelic therapy

  • Introduction

  • Neuroplasticity theories

  • The Metaphysical Belief Theory

  • The Metaphysical Alief Theory

  • Conclusion

  • The role of self-representation

  • Introduction

  • Psychological factors

  • Neural correlates

  • Neurocognitive explanation

  • Conclusion

  • Resetting the brain

  • Introduction

  • The Reset Theory

  • Predictive processing

  • Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics

  • Resetting beliefs under psychedelics

  • Unbinding the self

  • Introduction

  • Predictive self-binding

  • Selfhood embodied and (temporally) extended

  • A centre of representational gravity

  • The self unbound

  • Opacity and mystical epiphanies

  • Psychedelic therapy: a two-factor theory

  • Self and self-consciousness

  • Conclusion

  • Epistemology

  • Introduction

  • Psychopharmacology and epistemology

  • Knowledge that

  • Knowledge how

  • Knowledge by acquaintance

  • New knowledge of old facts

  • Indirect epistemic benefits

  • Epistemic innocence

  • Spirituality

  • Introduction

  • Naturalizing spirituality

  • Spirituality as unselfing

  • Conclusion

  • Testable predictions

  • Future directions

  • Naturalistic entheogenics

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Fachbereich: Theoretische Psychologie
Genre: Psychologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198843122
ISBN-10: 0198843127
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Letheby, Chris
Hersteller: Hurst & Co.
Maße: 238 x 158 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Chris Letheby
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.10.2021
Gewicht: 0,548 kg
Artikel-ID: 119030161
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