Speaker

Jussi Jylkkä

Jussi Jylkkä (PhD in philosophy, PhD in psychology, docent in cognitive psychology) is a researcher working at the psychology department at Åbo Akademi university, Finland. He has done research in areas such as cognitive psychology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind and language. Since 2022 he has been working on the three-year project “Comforting delusions or life-transforming insights”, funded by the Kone foundation, focusing on psychedelic insights and belief changes, and their compatibility with the scientific worldview.