Book Symposium: Philosophy of Psychedelics
Chiara Caporuscio, Sascha Benjamin Fink
Philosophy and the Mind Sciences May 2, 2022 DOI: 10.33735/phimisci.2022.9659 (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Book symposium Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Naturalism Epistemology Psychoanalysis |
| Citations | 1 |
| Key points | 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).