As a scientist and philosopher writing in the nineteenth century, Hermann von Helmholtz attempts to use the emerging findings of physiology and his own theories of learning, memory, and perception (what we would now ...

This paper examines the potential for psychedelic experiences to facilitate knowledge acquisition by enhancing creative thought processes. Initially, the discussion is framed between entheogenic and psychotomimetic conceptions ...

While conspiracy theories are often considered epistemologically suspect, this work endeavors to provide a neutral assessment of these theories on epistemological grounds, and then examining the phenomenon that underlies ...