https://theconversation.com/can-a-psychedelic-induced-mystical-experience-really-improve-your-mental-health-274330;
https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/7/1/article-p18.xml (full text);
https://psychology-tools.com/test/meq-30. "Correlation does not equal
#causation. A large body of
#psychiatric #research warns against assuming that because 2 things occur together, 1 must cause the other. Mystical experiences may simply be 1 visible marker of other processes, such as increased emotional openness, the development of new neural connections or changes in entrenched beliefs."
Can a psychedelic-induced mystical experience really improve your mental health?
Psychedelic therapy often promises transcendent mystical experiences. But research suggests context and expectation may matter more than the trip itself.
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New joint paper (with Sam Baron, Helen Berber, DBM, and Kristie Miller, brought together by Kristie) on degrees of causation. Open access in Phil Imprint.
#philosophy #causation https://doi.org/10.3998/phimp.6191How much did each of the authors of this paper causally contribute to its writing?
Some philosophers argue that in order to accommodate a range of our practices we must suppose that causation is not an all or nothing matter: it comes in degrees. We argue for two key claims. First, we can accommodate these practices without positing degree theoretic causation, and we can do so by appealing to various things that clearly do admit of degrees. So, positing causation by degree is unnecessary. Second, not only is positing degree theoretic causation unnecessary, but in fact there is no single thing, causation by degree, that could play the role required of it if it is to accommodate these practices. Thus, we conclude, there is no motivation to posit degree theoretic causation that arises from consideration of these practices.
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