On acid empiricism

Fink SB (2024)

Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes

Publication year: 2024

Publisher: Springer Nature

Edited Volumes: The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use

ISBN: 9783031657900

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-65790-0_12

Abstract

Sascha Fink refines and evaluates a view known as "acid empiricism". As an empiricism, it holds that all knowledge of the world is derived from experience. And as an acid empiricism, it holds that knowledge of the world may be derived from psychedelic experience. Not only is acid empiricism implicit in many psychedelic writings and common in the psychedelic community, Fink contends, it may also explain the recently documented shift towards specific metaphysical positions (e.g., anti-naturalism or panpsychism). Criticising acid empiricists' propensity for metaphysical conclusions, Fink endorses a more skeptical stance that still has epistemic benefits by challenging basic presuppositions of our everyday views of the world.

Authors with CRIS profile

Sascha-Michael Fink Lehrstuhl für Theory and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur)

How to cite

APA:

Fink, S.B. (2024). On acid empiricism. In Rob Lovering (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use. Springer Nature.

MLA:

Fink, Sascha Benjamin. "On acid empiricism." The Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Psychoactive Drug Use. Ed. Rob Lovering, Springer Nature, 2024.

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