Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
Chiara Caporuscio, Sascha Benjamin Fink
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences May 2, 2022 DOI: 10.33735/phimisci.2022.9659 via OpenAlex
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractA book symposium on Chris Letheby's Philosophy of Psychedelics (2021) examines the tension between psychedelic therapy and philosophical naturalism. The special issue opens with an introduction by Matthew Johnson, followed by Letheby's overview of his main arguments. Seven contributions either critique or expand on Letheby's proposed mechanism for psychedelic therapy or discuss its epistemic implications. The symposium concludes with Letheby's responses to the commentaries.
Study at a glance
| Characteristics | Book symposium Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Naturalism Philosophy Epistemology Psychoanalysis Psychology |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key finding | The symposium critically examines Letheby's argument that psychedelic therapy can be reconciled with naturalism. |
Abstract
This special issue focuses on the Philosophy of Psychedelics (OUP 2021) by Chris Letheby in the form of a book symposium. Introduced by Matthew Johnson (2022), Letheby presents the main claims of this book that explores the apparent conflict between psychedelic therapy and naturalism in a précis (Letheby, 2022a). Seven contributions criticize, expand or comment on Letheby's arguments, focusing either on his proposed mechanism for psychedelic therapy (Colombo, 2022; Hoffman, 2022; Lyon and Farennikova, 2022; Martin and Sterzer, 2022) or on the epistemic implications (Bortolotti and Murphy-Hollies, 2022; Caporuscio, 2022; Fink, 2022). The symposium concludes with Letheby’s replies to these commentaries (Letheby, 2022b).