Peter Sjöstedt-H is an Anglo-Scandinavian philosopher of mind and a metaphysician who specializes in the thought of Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Schopenhauer, with special regard to panpsychism and altered states of sentience. Peter received a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Continental Philosophy from the University of Warwick, where he was awarded a first-class distinction for his dissertation on Kant and Schelling in relation to intellectual intuition. He subsequently became a Philosophy Lecturer in London for six years and has now passed his PhD at Exeter University, where he also teaches philosophy modules and writing skills. Peter is the author of Noumenautics and is an inspiration behind the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero, Karnak.

As you might expect, we had a wide-ranging and I think very worthwhile conversation. We touched on the relation of mind and matter, metaphysics, and the so-called hard problem of consciousness. We talked about the work of Alfred North Whitehead and panpsychism, the role of method and intuition in philosophy, and we took a walk through Peter’s experiences with psychedelics, the role of psychedelics in ancient Greek culture and philosophy, and Peter expounded a bit on what he calls psychedelic phenomenology. Peter brings an important level of rigor to his work in these areas, and I think you’ll appreciate how he’s bringing together the wiles of psychedelic exploration with the discipline of philosophical inquiry.