Stories by Edward F. Kelly

Edward F. Kelly is a professor in the Division of Perceptual Studies (DOPS), a research unit within the Department of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia Medical School. He served as lead author of Irreducible Mind (2007) and Beyond Physicalism (2015), which systematically explore empirical and theoretical topics related to the primacy of mind in nature. His research interests currently focus on intensive neuroimaging studies of altered states of consciousness in exceptional subjects of various kinds.

Neuroscience

Misreporting and Confirmation Bias in Psychedelic Research

What do images of the brain under psychedelics really tell us about its relation to the mind?

September 3, 2018 — Bernardo Kastrup and Edward F. Kelly

Cognition

Could Multiple Personality Disorder Explain Life, the Universe and Everything?

A new paper argues the condition now known as “dissociative identity disorder” might help us understand the fundamental nature of reality

June 18, 2018 — Bernardo Kastrup, Adam Crabtree and Edward F. Kelly