Philosophy 247 always takes you on an intellectual trip. If you want a trip which is more directly chemically induced, you can take a psychedelic drug – alongside over 30 million other people in the United States. Psychedelic drugs are illegal. That in and of itself might be a good reason not to dabble in them. And there are other risks attached. But Ole-Martin Moen wonders whether there might also be benefits….

Ole Martin Moen is a philosopher at University of Oslo who works on how to think straight about thorny ethical issues. He is Principal Investigator of “What should not be bought and sold?”, a 4-year/$1 million project funded by the Research Council of Norway. He is also co-founder and chairman of Humanistskolen, a non-profit charter school in Oslo with 60 full-time students (age 13 to 16) that emphasizes philosophy and critical thinking.