I’m a PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Western Australia, working on psychedelic experience and addiction recovery. My research asks how psychedelic experience produces insight, whether that insight constitutes knowledge, and how it contributes to lasting change.
My current focus is interoception: how we sense and interpret what is happening within our bodies. I’m developing an account of how addiction disrupts access to bodily and emotional information, and how psychedelics may help restore it. This connects questions about craving, alexithymia, and emotional processing with a central epistemological problem: what does some…
I’m a PhD researcher in philosophy at the University of Western Australia, working on psychedelic experience and addiction recovery. My research asks how psychedelic experience produces insight, whether that insight constitutes knowledge, and how it contributes to lasting change.
My current focus is interoception: how we sense and interpret what is happening within our bodies. I’m developing an account of how addiction disrupts access to bodily and emotional information, and how psychedelics may help restore it. This connects questions about craving, alexithymia, and emotional processing with a central epistemological problem: what does someone come to know through an experience that helps them recover?
More broadly, I’m interested in self-knowledge and transformative experience, including how we come to fully grasp something we already knew. My work brings philosophy into conversation with empirical research on addiction and psychedelic treatment.
Recent
Recorded talk:
Embodied Insights: Interoception in Psychedelic Epistemology — IICPS 2026
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuWqOaaQoFQ&t=1s
Review of my talk by Raluca Bilașco-Rusu: https://ralucarusu5.substack.com/p/iicps-2026-a-report-from-the-international
