Philosophy of Psychedelics

Introduction
Introduction
On the need for a natural philosophy of psychedelics
Introduction
The psychedelic renaissance
Evidence for safety and efficacy
An existential medicine?
The Comforting Delusion Objection
Naturalizing the entheogenic conception
The phenomenology of psychedelic therapy
Introduction
Perception
The sense of self
The transformative process
Conclusion
The mechanisms of psychedelic therapy
Introduction
Neuroplasticity theories
The Metaphysical Belief Theory
The Metaphysical Alief Theory
Conclusion
The role of self-representation
Introduction
Psychological factors
Neural correlates
Neurocognitive explanation
Conclusion
Resetting the brain
Introduction
The Reset Theory
Predictive processing
Relaxed beliefs under psychedelics
Resetting beliefs under psychedelics
Unbinding the self
Introduction
Predictive self-binding
Selfhood embodied and (temporally) extended
A centre of representational gravity
The self unbound
Opacity and mystical epiphanies
Psychedelic therapy: a two-factor theory
Self and self-consciousness
Conclusion
Epistemology
Introduction
Psychopharmacology and epistemology
Knowledge that
Knowledge how
Knowledge by acquaintance
New knowledge of old facts
Indirect epistemic benefits
Epistemic innocence
Spirituality
Introduction
Naturalizing spirituality
Spirituality as unselfing
Conclusion
Testable predictions
Future directions
Naturalistic entheogenics

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