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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

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Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics. PhD. Lecturer at the University of Exeter. Co-Director of Breaking Convention. Psychədəlix Research｜Process Philosophy Neo-Spinozism｜Exo Mind Theory www.philosopher.eu

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · May 8

Pantheism: One and All –
My new open access article is just out in Philosophical Psychology. Within frames of psychədəlia, I set out types and histories of Pantheism – that God is Nature:
doi.org/10.1080/0951...

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 2d

Drug Science statement on RCPsych document: www.drugscience.org.uk/royal-colleg...

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 3d

Latest reading list

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 4d

www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/default...

www.rcpsych.ac.uk

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 4d

I'm delighted that the Royal College of Psychiatrists have endorsed my work in metaphysics in their official statement on 'Psychotherapy assisted by psychedelic and related substances (PARS): Guidance for psychiatrists taking part in approved research trials':

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 7d

Catch me speaking in:
—Bristol 10th October (Psychedelic Society)
—London 8th November (Verdurin)
—Penzance 15th November (Red Wing)
—Zurich 25th November (ETH Zurich uni)

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Pierre d’Alancaisez (is) Verdurin @verdur.in · 7d

With J.F. Martel, Quentin S. Crisp, Jack Hunter, @petersjostedth.bsky.social, and Daniel Corrick.

📅 8 November, 2–6pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
🎟️ buff.ly/7dJKHVp

Back to Haunt Us » Verdurin

How do we accept the incompleteness of the universe itself — not merely our limited knowledge of it — without becoming lost in the arbitrary nature of meaning?

buff.ly

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 8d

RIP John Searle.

Searle was exceptional in the clarity with which he presented problems in the Philosophy of Mind, though his own solutions to those problems were perhaps less exceptional. Regardless, the issues he raised are more important to register than ever vis-à-vis AI today.

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 11d

They’re a complete mystery, no one knows.

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 11d

Hol(e)y Rocks

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Ben Mayer @thebenmayer.bsky.social · Dec 21

The lovely people at University of Exeter have just launched the world's first master's degree dedicated to Psychedelics! The psychedelic renaissance is gaining traction by the day 👍

MSc Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture (Online) | Online study | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 15d

The on-campus and online MSc Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture begins at the University of Exeter this week. Dr Anjali Bhat and I will be convening the MIND module, fusing metaphysics and neuroscience into a novel psychedelic concoction. ⭐️

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 17d

‘[It behoves] us to be reflective in our metaphysics, lest it has control of us rather than we of it.’
– A. W. Moore, 2012

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 18d

My one slide for the Exeter uni AI Superintelligence conference:

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 18d

Meandering through the moors in the mist

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Superintelligence Conference @siconference.bsky.social · 24d

What happens when AI outgrows us—or grows with us?

This September in Exeter, UK, we invite you to explore this question and many more at the forefront of artificial intelligence.

Full programme : www.superintelligenceconference.org/programme/2025

#superintelligence #SiC25 #UoE

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 21d

Sad circular example of how Philosophy of Mind has ignored Idealism.

(From 2004, the reference is to Berkeley )

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 22d

A chat about the Mind-Matter Problem:
youtu.be/WZfdLGVo1NA?...

The Mind-Matter Problem | Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes

YouTube video by Ben Goh

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 25d

Carn Galva

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 27d

Leo Strauss: ‘I believe that materialism is an error … [but] materialism is not essentially nihilistic … [in fact] a certain anti-materialism or idealism is at the bottom of German nihilism.’ (1941)

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 29d

Leo Strauss:
‘German nihilism is not absolute nihilism, desire for the destruction of everything including oneself, but a desire for the destruction of something specific: of modern civilisation.’ (1941)

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · 29d

God is half-dead. Two new apostles arrived today.

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · Sep 8

‘Its narrative resembled the popular image of the Hegelian march of Geist, except that spirit’s course in the Dialectic of Enlightenment was guided by a malevolent force.’

– Richard Bourke, 2023, 234

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · Sep 5

‘German philosophies, when they die, it has been said, go to Oxford…’
– R. G. Collingwood, 1933

Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks Adam. Those stones are called the Mên-an-Tol – a map and description can be found here: www.cornwalls.co.uk/history/site...

Men-An-Tol | Cornwall Guide

Men-An-Tol, one of the most iconic megalithic structures in Cornwall. Bronze Age holed stone with 2 uprights

www.cornwalls.co.uk

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Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes @petersjostedth.bsky.social · Aug 31

On the ten-mile hike to Penzance today:

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