The Times Literary Supplement (UK)
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Why do we experience consciousness? Tim Crane This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of David Chalmers’s book The Conscious Mind. Chalmers – only thirty years old at the time – was trained as a mathematician in his home city, Adelaide, and had studied philosophy in Oxford and Indiana before becoming a professor at…
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In his new book How To Change Your Mind: The new science of psychedelics, Michael Pollan sets out the twentieth-century history of the use of “psychedelic” substances with clarity, insight and humour. He does his fieldwork – with appropriate trepidation. He goes mushroom hunting. He consumes four different psychedelic tryptamines under suitably controlled conditions – LSD, psilocybin, ayahuasca…
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I doubt that there is a book which succeeds more than The Omnivore’ s Dilemma — with its richness of information, eloquence of address, and integrity of moral purpose — in rendering visible, and presenting for a “different” style of ethical reflection, that “profound engagement” with our world which eating represents.