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Peter Sjöstedt-H
Peter Sjöstedt-H is a philosopher of mind, specialising in the thought of Whitehead and Nietzsche and in panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter Sjöstedt-H is currently a research fellow and associate lecturer at The University of Exeter, following six years of lecturing Philosophy in London. He is the author of Noumenautics and was described by Alexander Bard as "a psychedelic Nietzsche".

Peter Sjöstedt-H is a philosopher of mind, specialising in the thought of Whitehead and Nietzsche and in panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter Sjöstedt-H is currently a research fellow and associate lecturer at The University of Exeter, following six years of lecturing Philosophy in London. He is the author of Noumenautics and was described by Alexander Bard as "a psychedelic Nietzsche".
Peter Sjöstedt-H Videos

Models, metaphors and minds
Is the brain really a computer?

The oldest gods
Should we return to the gods of nature?

In conversation with Rupert Sheldrake
An exploration of the mind

How to fathom timelessness via psychedelics
What should time mean to us?
Peter Sjöstedt-H Articles
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The Physical and Psychological Differences Between Men and Women
The biology and psychology of sex difference

Madness and Wisdom
Might madness be a strange form of wisdom?

The Secret Conjurer
How does the brain play tricks on us?

How Men and Women Think
Are mental differences between the sexes real?

Forgetting to Be Me
Is true memory a fantasy?

Who We Have Been and Who We Are
Is memory a recollection or a construction?

Narrating the Brain
Benjamin Dalton | Neuroscience's story of the self

Why Society Drives You Mad
Environmental psychology & mental illness

Mind, Myth and Madness
Are biological accounts of mental illness useful?

Seeing Through Psychosis
Juliette Burton | Illuminated by mental illness

How to Make the Right Decision
Fixing your biases with cognitive science

Minds, Matter and Mechanisms
Are humans more than machines?

Mechanisms of the Mind
Margaret Boden | Rethinking memory through AI

Mazes of the Mind
The philosophy of neuroscience

Hidden Desires and Secret Thoughts
Are We In Control of Our Selves?

Psychiatry and the Meaning of Pain

A Mad World
Is modern life bad for your mental health?

Against Psychiatric Diagnoses
We need another understanding of mental health | Lucy Johnstone

The Vital Statistics
Should gender differences be accepted?

The Science of Sex
On the real differences between gender and sex

Beyond Psychotherapy
When drugs won’t do

Memory and Forgetting
Forgetfulness and the self

The Science of Psychedelics
David Nutt | Can drugs transform mental health?

Positive Thinking and the Name Game
Should we not name illnesses?

Mind, Madness, and Power
Is psychiatry dangerous?

Where Is My Mind?
It's not all in the brain

Neuro-Everything?

Love Is the Drug
Can we have a pill that sparks love?

Metaphors of the Mind
Ophelia Deroy uncovers the origins of experience.

Drugged Up
Fads and Fallacies in Psychiatry

Treating Psychosis
The limits of anti-psychotics

Memory and the Self
Do memories make us who we are?

Dark Matter of The Mind
Why human nature is not pre-determined

Madness, Incorporated
Are psychiatric diagnoses real?

Sex, Lies and Pharmacology
David Healy | Psychiatric drugs destroy sex lives

Neuroscience and the Mystery of Music
Raymond Tallis explains why our love for music remains beyond science's grasp

Madness: What's in a word?
The language behind it

Are We All Bipolar Now?
The boundaries of mental health

Taking Over the Asylum

A Checklist for Sanity
The limits to our understanding of mental illness

Sexuality After Genetics

Nature's Hidden Persuaders
The evolution of the placebo effect

Manufacturing Love
How to make romance last

How to Be Brave
In an age of anxiety, revisit the most resilient virtue.

Creating Change
The future of arts provision in mental healthcare.
Heaven is other people
Is mental wellbeing a purely social issue?

Why we are out of our minds
Entrapped by the human condition

Life without labels
Problems with modern mental health

Power, politics, and mental health
Rewriting mental health

What is Happiness?
An interview with Behavioural Scientist Paul Dolan
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On the cusp of the unnatural

Idealism, panpsychism and science

Antirealism and the analytic-continental split

The new world of metamodernism

Truth isn't correspondence with the facts

Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100

Science can't state all the facts

The Return of Metaphysics: Hegel vs Kant

The Return of Idealism: Russell vs Hegel

Common sense leads philosophy astray

Derrida and the trouble with metaphysics

Analytic philosophy has a language problem

The Return of Metaphysics: Russell and Realism

After Metaphysics: Rorty and American Pragmatism

Freedom from nature: the ultimate enslavement

How language distorts reality

Seeing is not perceiving

Wittgenstein was a metaphysician

There is no escaping metaphysics

Why the attempt to bury metaphysics failed

After postmodernism

The possible worlds of Saul Kripke

World Philosophy Day: 13 questions for our century

Most truths cannot be expressed in language

21st century metaphysics: Leaving Fantasy Behind

Common sense is not a good guide to reality

Wittgenstein: science can’t tell us about God

Schopenhauer vs Hegel: progress or pessimism?

Spinoza Reborn

Rethinking truth