Modules Taught

Postgraduate Philosophy of Psychedelics PHLM013/M014 module:

Convenors: Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Prof. Christine Hauskeller (with guest lecturers)
Emails: p.sjostedt-hughes@exeter.ac.uk and c.hauskeller@exeter.ac.uk
Place: Byrne House Seminar Room, Ground Floor
Module page: https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/current/undergraduatemodules/2021-22/philosophy/module/?moduleCode=PHL3117&ay=2021/2/content

ELE page: https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=13360

PDF Module descriptor with Reading List

CONTENT

WEEK 1: Introduction to Philosophy and Psychedelics
WEEK 2: Philosophy of Psychedelics and Mysticism
WEEK 3: Ethics of the Medicalization of Psychedelics
WEEK 4: The Self and Psychedelics
WEEK 5: Biopiracy and Epistemicide vis-à-vis Psychedelics
WEEK 6: READING WEEK
WEEK 7: Indigenous Cosmologies
WEEK 8: Gender and Psychedelics
WEEK 9: Cognitive Liberty and the Law vis-à-vis Psychedelics
WEEK 10: Nature Connectedness, Ecology, and Psychedelics
WEEK 11: Aesthetics and Psychedelics
WEEK 12: Open Doors

[subject to change]

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Undergraduate Philosophy of Psychedelics PHL2117/3117 module:

Convenors: Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes (and Prof. Christine Hauskeller)
Emails: p.sjostedt-hughes@exeter.ac.uk and c.hauskeller@exeter.ac.uk
ELE page: https://vle.exeter.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=13360

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: History of Psychedelic Use: Amerindian

Week 3: History of Psychedelic use: Western

Week 4: Metaphysics and Psychedelics: Spinoza, James, Whitehead

Week 5: Psychedelic Aesthetics

Week 6: Medicalization of Psychedelics

Week 7: Environmentalism and Psychedelics

Week 8: Gender and Psychedelics

Week 9: The Phenomenology of Psychedelics

Week 10: Philosophy of Mind and Neuroscience of Psychedelics

Week 11: Summary Session

More information:

https://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/current/undergraduatemodules/2021-22/philosophy/module/?moduleCode=PHL3117&ay=2021/2

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