Folk psychology's usefulness extends beyond its role in explaining and predicting behavior, i.e., beyond the intentional stance. In this paper, I critically examine the concept of phenomenal stance. According to this idea, attributions of phenomenal mental states impact laypeople's perception of moral patiency. The more phenomenal states we ascribe to others, the more we care about their...
An understanding of the roles of altered states of consciousness in disrupting entrenched and dysfunctional ways of thinking may give us hope for a correction to many of humanity's seemingly intractable problems. This article considers altered states induced via substances known as psychedelics at various levels of abstraction through the lenses of history, biology and botany, neurophysiology,...