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Book Reviews

What to do about the woo?

Review of ‘Philosophy and Psychedelics. Frameworks for Exceptional Experience'. Edited by Christine Hauskeller and Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes. London: Bloomsbury (2022).

 

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1 Here, I make no claim about the existence or not of God(s), about which I remain genuinely agnostic. But I do take the position that as this matter cannot be determined experimentally – or falsified, in Popperian fashion – it cannot be answered by, and so lies outside the purview of, science. Consequently, any final statement on the matter remains theological, an article of faith, irrespective of the weight of argument proffered.

2 The psychedelic guru and proselytizer, Terence McKenna (1946–2000) drew heavily upon Whitehead.

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Andy Letcher

Andy Letcher is Senior Lecturer in Psychology (Psychedelics) at the University of Exeter, and Senior Lecturer and Programme Lead for the MA Engaged Ecology at Schumacher College, Devon, UK. He is the author of Shroom: A Cultural History of the Magic Mushroom and many papers in the burgeoning field of Critical Psychedelic Studies.

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