Ontic Structural Realism, Buddhist Metaphysics, and the Self in Psychedelic Psychotherapy
Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology August 1, 2025 Daniel Stearman
This paper examines recent empirical research on the psychedelic experience and makes sense of the current literature in terms of ontic structural realism, a position in the metaphysics of science which holds that relations are fundamental. This interpretation is maintained by first providing a philosophical framework for the varieties of self-transcendent experiences by implementing a notion...