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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.
Trouble with temptation
Finding meaning in heartbreak
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
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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