Juuso Kähönen

Juuso Kähönen is a philosophy doctoral student in Helsinki University. His research focused on understanding the links between self-transcendence and values, and exploring their implications for good life.This includes tackling normative, ethical and metaethical questions around these themes.He approaches these questions by building a philosophical framework informed by empirical research, especially by psychedelic and contemplative science.He aims to understand the connections between various kinds of self-transcendence and evaluative changes, from experiences such as ego-dissolutions or mystical experiences and changes they induce in the immediate evaluative aspects of our experience, all the way to abstract conceptions of values and long-term shifts in existential modes.Juuso is also a founding member in Finnish Association for Psychedelic Research, active in Finnish Psychedelic Research Network and has an interest and long background in meditative practices.