Alberto Cavallarin

My research focuses on the overlap between religious epistemology, social epistemology, and altered states of consciousness.

Some specific topics that I am working on:

- "Hinges", i.e., seemingly arational and instinctive certainties such as "I have a body" and "there is an external world".

- The application of "hinge epistemology" to different contexts of inquiry (namely, religious and non-religious contexts).

- Perennialism, i.e., the idea that "mystical experiences" share universal features, independently of one's cultural and religious context.

- Disagreement in contemporary research on mysticism.

- "Deep" religious disagreements.

- The idea that death is an illusion :)