Finally, Forde argues that the psychedelic experience is a bona fide transformative experience and offers a distinct way of apprehending the Ground of Being.

The third thesis is that the psychedelic experience can open the subject to the essential nature of reality. Here, Forde claims that the mythopoetic archetypical phenomena encountered during the peak of the psychedelic experience are best comprehended in terms of essences...

This leads into the second thesis, which argues that rather than being purely hallucinatory, the psychedelic experience can reveal aspects of reality which would not otherwise be disclosed, i.e., as the ego dissolves one gains a view of the world which Forde calls ego-free seeing...

and the approach (phenomenology). In the phenomenological analysis, Forde defends a bundle of four interconnected claims. The first thesis is that a minimal sense of self is maintained even during the most turbulent experiences of ego-dissolution...

The author will be in conversation with Dr Jason Dockstader and Dr Joel Walmsley, with moderation by Prof Oliver Davis.

Abstract: The book provides a phenomenological examination of the psychedelic experience. Danny Forde begins by introducing and outlining both the subject matter (psychedelics)...

Robert B. Brandom and other thinkers from the broader pragmatist tradition allows for a richer understanding of how his ideas might be adapted to address the complexities of contemporary legal and political life.

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have noted that Hart’s legal theory exhibits a problematic dependency on description and I believe this stems from his commitments to (some aspects of) J. L. Austin’s methods and the Humean separation thesis. I believe that bringing Hart’s work into dialogue with
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philosophical traditions that influenced it. Hart was able to move the project of legal positivism forward by melding the Humean expressivism of Bentham and Austin with the language centered strands of analytic philosophy that gave shape to Oxford philosophy. Many critics
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Concept of Law in 1961 his theoretical terminology has shaped both the working vocabulary of analytic legal theorists and legal practitioners more generally. I seek to expand the conceptual resources within Hart’s legal theory by contextualizing his work within the
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Abstract: My focus in this paper is on the inferential connections between Hart’s conception of legal authority, the internal point of view, and the structure of legal systems. This is in many ways very well-trodden philosophical terrain. Since the publication of Hart’s
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projects of human improvement. For this reason, eugenification—a concept I am introducing here—provides key to understanding both racialization (in the past) and transhumanization (in the future). I close by considering what this implies for the recent ETI debate with which I began.

human individuality takes: racialization, eugenification, and transhumanization. Such aggressively antagonistic norming relies ultimately on a distinction between better and worse forms of human individuality, with the corresponding evaluations informing meliorative
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of individuality amount to and these are norm-laden. Here I draw attention to actual practices of norming, departing from the emphasis on factors like cooperation, altruism, and competition that make an ETI a kind of success story. I explore three forms that norming of
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Abstract: There has been recent debate over whether relatively recent transformations to human sociality constitute an evolutionary transition in individuality (ETI). These essentially diachronic investigations rest on questions about what antecedent and consequent forms

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