Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2026
K Jerotic
The last few decades have been characterised by a resurgence in research and clinical interest in classic serotonergic psychedelics including N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and psilocybin, with a growing body of literature pointing to their treatment potential. Ayahuasca is a psychedelic brew commonly composed of plants carrying the psychoactive compound DMT, and...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
October 2, 2025
Jasmine Wu
1 citation
Psychosis analyzed from a phenomenological orientation is a disembodied experience that involves a constant negotiation of self and reality. For people experiencing recurrent psychoses, its medicalisation and stigmatisation further complicate the relationship of self, medication, and society, as shown by the political economy of psychosis. In these cases where full recovery from the illness may...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2017
Christopher Shaw
The aim of this thesis is to define, develop, and defend an interpretation and application of the mystical ontology of Meister Eckhart. Briefly, mystical ontology should be understood as a distinctive theology insofar as it presents God’s being, the being of the world, and the individual’s being as an essentially unified whole. My research focus for this thesis will then be to situate Eckhart’s...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2015
Chuanfei Chin
Borderline conscious creatures are neither definitely conscious nor definitely not conscious. In this thesis, I explain what borderline consciousness is and why it poses a significant epistemological challenge to scientists who investigate phenomenal consciousness as a natural kind. When these scientists discover more than one overlapping kind in their samples of conscious creatures, how can...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2013
William David Soud
This thesis examines the traces of theological and broader religious discourses in selected works of three major twentieth-century poets. Each of the texts examined in this thesis encodes within its poetics a distinct, theologically derived conception of the ontological status of the self in relation to the Absolute. Yeats primarily envisions the relation as one of essential identity, Jones...
Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)
2011
Tania Francine Doney
Jean-Paul Sartre is not traditionally thought of as a philosopher of the body and, until very recently, little critical attention has been paid to this aspect of his work. Nevertheless, since 2005 a number of articles have begun to appear which suggest that Sartre‘s account of the body in L’Être et le Néant may be worthy of more consideration than it has thus far received – perhaps most notably...