Christine is a philosopher with training in sociology and psychology also. Her research interests include a range of topics in Moral Philosophy and Empirical Ethics, Feminist Philosophy and Decolonizing Approaches; Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Philosophy of Medicine and the Life Sciences (especially psychedelic psychotherapy, genetics and stem cell research), and Science and Technology Studies.
Christine completed her M.A. (1992) at the University Frankfurt on Main in Philosophy, Sociology and Psychoanalysis and her Ph.D. (1999) at the Technical University Darmstadt. InĀ 2002 she came to Exeter where she worked until 2012 in the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society as researcher and Co-Director of this Centre (2009 – 2012).Ā Since 2012 Christine has been teaching Philosophy at Exeter.
Christine’s full Exeter academic profile: https://sociology.exeter.ac.uk/staff/hauskeller/
Growing at first out of the necessities of the pandemic, and then enjoying the global collaborative potential, Christine has been creating interdisciplinary small discussion groups in which the work of the participants is discussed in depth. The members then aim to work jointly on publications. The current groupās focus is on the needs forāand the potential pitfalls of decriminalization. This has grown out of the work of an initial group focused on the concept of decoloniality in relation to psychedelics. For more information on this please see the contribution by Christine and members of the group in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews:
Decolonization is a metaphor towards a different ethic. The case from psychedelic studies
( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03080188.2022.2122788 )
Christine was one of the Anthology Editors for this 2023 Bloomsbury publication. In this rapidly growing area of study, it is the first volume to explore the philosophy of psychedelic experience, from a range of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives. In doing so, Philosophy and PsychedelicsĀ reveals just why the place of psychedelics in our societies should not be left to medical sciences alone, as psychedelic experience opens up new perspectives on fundamental philosophical questions relating to human experience, ethics, and the metaphysics of mind.
