Aidan Lyon is a philosopher at Leiden University and the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.

He completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 2009 at the Australian National University and has Bachelor’s degrees in Science (Mathematics) and Arts (Philosophy) from the University of Queensland. His academic research is at the intersection of psychology and philosophy and focuses on wisdom, uncertainty, meditation, yoga, and psychedelics. He has published research articles in many top journals in philosophy and held academic appointments at several universities worldwide.

His book, “Psychedelic Experience: Revealing the Mind”, will be published with Oxford University Press in 2023. He has recently been awarded a three-year grant by the Templeton Foundation to work on the project “Mystical Entropy”, which will use the concept of entropy to unify the recent science of mystical experiences with traditional philosophical systems of mysticism.