- Critical Doses: Nurturing Diversity in Psychedelic StudiesInterdisciplinary Science Reviews21 December 2023By Christine HauskellerClaudia Gertraud Schwarza Department of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UKb Research Centre for Transitional Psychiatry, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences, Krems, AustriaChristine Hauskeller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. She holds an M.A. in Philosophy, Sociology and Psychoanalysis (University Frankfurt on Main) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Christine studies constellations of knowledge and power, of epistemology and ethics. Her expertise and research bridge across ethics and political philosophy to philosophy of medicine and the life sciences. She especially advances methods and concepts developed in Critical Theory and Feminism. She founded the Exeter transdisciplinary research group psychedelics studies. Recent publications include The Matrix of Stem Cell Research (Routledge 2020) and Philosophy and Psychedelics. Frameworks of Exceptional Experience (Bloomsbury 2022).Claudia Gertraud Schwarz is a postdoctoral researcher at the Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences in Austria. She holds an M.A. in media studies and a doctoral degree in sociology (both from the University of Vienna). Claudia's research focuses on the sociopolitical dynamics and ethical dimensions of (re-)emerging scientific fields and technologies, the role of psychedelics and other healing modalities in society, gender studies and feminism, and the entanglements of science, spirituality, and art. She also works as science communicator and seeks to change society for the better through her activism such as the #WeDoSTS movement that she started in the field of Science, Technology, and Society studies.
- Passageways through process philosophy: panpsychism in practice.Interdisciplinary Science Reviews21 December 2023By Reanne CraneSemantrix, 82 Manuel Plascencia, Sayulita, Nayarit, 63734, MexicoDr Reanne Crane is a language scholar and co-founder of Semantrix (www.semantrix.co.uk) – a platform that seeks to bring more rhetorical and metaphorical innovation to dialogues on drugs and consciousness], and, more generally, explores the interplay between language, culture, and the human psyche. Her PhD (University of Kent, UK, 2022) is a multi-perspectival analysis of psychedelic discourses entitled: Aldous Huxley’s Island Revisited: Psychedelics and the Semantics of Perception and Belief. She has a background in teaching and translation, with an M.A. in Contemporary Literature, and a B.A. in Mandarin Chinese and English (Newcastle University). She has been researching and lecturing on psychedelics and language both nationally and internationally since 2014.