Peter Sjöstedt-HughesUniversity of Exeter | UoE · Department of Psychology
Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
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Introduction
Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Spinoza – and in fields pertaining to panpsychism and altered states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter.
Peter is the author of Noumenautics (2015), Modes of Sentience (2021), and co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022).
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The Concrescence of Dissent: Whitehead as Religious, Scientific, Philosophic Heretic
In The Antichrist Nietzsche preached that, ‘Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously.’ This predicament applies no less to Alfred North Whitehead, the twentieth century's most outstanding yet obscured philosopher. Whitehead was a maste...
The title of this volume, Philosophy and Psychedelics, conjugates two words that each refer to a multiplicity of different discourses and practices. Just as philosophy denominates a vast range of perspectives and methods, so is there no single type of psychedelic experience, substance, or practice. There are varieties of each, and it is the myriad...
The essential proposal of this text is that psychedelic-induced metaphysical experiences should be integrated and evaluated with recourse to metaphysics. It will be argued that there is a potential extra benefit to patients in psychedelic-assisted therapy if they are provided with an optional, additional, and intelligible schema and discussion of m...
Aldous Huxley employed, in his 1954 book on the mescaline experience, The Doors of Perception, both explicitly and implicitly the metaphysics of French philosopher Henri Bergson, notably through two concepts that Huxley named the ‘reducing valve’ and ‘Mind-at-Large’. The former concept claims that our perception of the external world and of our pas...
Anecdotal and empirical evidence suggests that people may undergo substantial shifts in their Metaphysical beliefs (MPBs) following non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by experiences such as meditation, breathwork, near-death, and psychedelics. Despite this, existing measures for assessing MPBs are limited in scope and interpretability, pr...
Indigenous psychedelic uses have long been imbricated with colonialism and its afterlives. Amidst tensions from accelerating investor interest in psychedelics and calls to decolonize research and practices, we argue that the study of psychedelics is troubled by dualisms used in both colonial and decolonial thought: subject and object, self and othe...
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In this rapidly growing area of study, this is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and Psychedelics reveals just why the place of psych...
Philosophy of Psychedelics – conference abstracts
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An exploration of the relationship between Humphry Davy's nitrous oxide experimentation, idealism, and Spinozism.
Psychedelic Press journal, issue 26, pp. 7–32 (2019)
The thesis that follows proffers a solution to the mind-matter problem, the problem as to how mind and matter relate. The proposed solution herein is a variant of panpsychism – the theory that all (pan) has minds (psyche) – that we name pansentient monism. By defining the suffix 'psyche' of panpsychism, i.e. by analysing what 'mind' is (Chapter 1),...
In this TEDx Talk, philosopher of mind Dr Peter Sjöstedt-H discusses the hidden impact psychedelics have had on philosophy and asks if such extreme, altered modes of mind could help give us answers to some of the big questions facing the philosophers and scientists of today.
This TEDxTruro talk took place on 26 October 2018.
YouTube version: http...
An introduction and fortification of panpsychism.
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Introduction
1. The Genetic Argument
2. The Abstraction Argument
3. The Inferential Argument
Why Panpsychism is Spurned
End Remarks
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Published online on High Existence (15 January 2018).
[This text will also appear as a chapter in my second book.]
'The Philosophy of Organism: Whitehead’s Organic Awareness of Reality –
Peter Sjöstedt-H introduces Whitehead’s organic awareness of reality'
Philosophy Now magazine, issue 114, pp. 22–23 (2016: Anja Publications Ltd)
An Introduction to, and Presentation of, A.N. Whitehead’s Marked Copy of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power.
An exploration into the reciprocity between Nietzsche's drug use and his philosophy.
First published in the Psychedelic Press Journal, vol. XII, then as chapter VI in Noumenautics, and thereafter as an online article on HighExistence.com. Respectively:
https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/products/psychedelic-press-uk-journal-2015-volume-iv?mc_cid=bb13...
Differentiating the various meanings of nihilism within Nietzsche's works.
Ethical Record, vol. 114, no. 10, pp. 6–10 (November 2009).
The Proceedings of the South Place Ethical Society