Author: Hereward Carrington
Publisher:
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Problems of Psychical Research
Author: Hereward Carrington
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1982
Author: Renée Haynes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Psychologie / Grossbritannien / Geschichte.
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ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Psychologie / Grossbritannien / Geschichte.
Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research
Author: American Society for Psychical Research
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
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Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
List of members in v. 1, 6, 12.
William James
Author: Krister Dylan Knapp
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469631253
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this insightful new book on the remarkable William James, the American psychologist and philosopher, Krister Dylan Knapp provides the first deeply historical and acutely analytical account of James's psychical research. While showing that James always maintained a critical stance toward claims of paranormal phenomena like spiritualism, Knapp uses new sources to argue that psychical research held a strikingly central position in James's life. It was crucial to his familial and professional relationships, the fashioning of his unique intellectual disposition, and the shaping of his core doctrines, especially the will-to-believe, empiricism, fideism, and theories of the subliminal consciousness and immortality. Knapp explains how and why James found in psychical research a way to rethink the well-trodden approaches to classic Euro-American religious thought, typified by the oppositional categories of natural vs. supernatural and normal vs. paranormal. He demonstrates how James eschewed these choices and instead developed a tertiary synthesis of them, an approach Knapp terms tertium quid, the third way. Situating James's psychical research in relation to the rise of experimental psychology and Protestantism's changing place in fin de siecle America, Knapp asserts that the third way illustrated a much broader trend in transatlantic thought as it struggled to navigate the uncertainties and religious adventurism of the modern age.
Essays in Psychical Research
Author: William James
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674267084
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The more than 50 articles, essays, and reviews collected here for the first time were published by James over a span of some 25 years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674267084
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The more than 50 articles, essays, and reviews collected here for the first time were published by James over a span of some 25 years. The record of a sustained interest in phenomena of a highly controversial nature, they make it amply clear that James's work in psychical research was not an eccentric hobby but a serious and sympathetic concern.
William James on Psychical Research
Author: William James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A New Science of the Paranormal
Author: Lawrence LeShan
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835630536
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations," says author Lawrence LaShan, "limiting themselves to controlled experiments such as analyzing statistics of people guessing cards being flipped in the next room" This provocative book outlines the principles of making a real study of the large, exciting events — clairvoyance and precognition; mediumship and spirit controls; psychic healing — that would bring mainline science into and revitalize the whole field. "And the issue is not just academic," says LeShan. "The old, materialistic worldview has not worked. Psychic research," he argues, "can transform our sense of reality itself to offer a new and more hopeful picture of ourselves and of the world."
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 0835630536
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Mainline science rejects the paranormal because it cannot be proven by the classical methods of controlled experiments. But sciences such as geology, astronomy, and anthropology also don’t rely on laboratory testing for repeatable results. Moreover, psi concerns consciousness, which is by definition nonquantitative. "Psi researchers must stop acting like science’s poor relations," says author Lawrence LaShan, "limiting themselves to controlled experiments such as analyzing statistics of people guessing cards being flipped in the next room" This provocative book outlines the principles of making a real study of the large, exciting events — clairvoyance and precognition; mediumship and spirit controls; psychic healing — that would bring mainline science into and revitalize the whole field. "And the issue is not just academic," says LeShan. "The old, materialistic worldview has not worked. Psychic research," he argues, "can transform our sense of reality itself to offer a new and more hopeful picture of ourselves and of the world."
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research
Author: Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Parapsychology
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
List of members in v.1-19, 21, 24-
Ethical Problems in Psychological Research
Author: Heinz Schuler
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483220095
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ethical Problems in Psychological Research focuses on the relationship between experimenter and subject within investigations in the biomedical and social sciences. The book discusses on the potential conflict between methodological and ethical norms; ethical problems of psychological experiments; and the ethical and methodological problems of alternatives to laboratory experiments. The text also describes the codification of ethical principles for psychological research.
Publisher: Academic Press
ISBN: 1483220095
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Ethical Problems in Psychological Research focuses on the relationship between experimenter and subject within investigations in the biomedical and social sciences. The book discusses on the potential conflict between methodological and ethical norms; ethical problems of psychological experiments; and the ethical and methodological problems of alternatives to laboratory experiments. The text also describes the codification of ethical principles for psychological research.
The Stepchildren of Science
Author: Heather Wolffram
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042027290
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany, The Stepchildren of Science casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which occultism is seen as a means of dealing with or creating “the modern”, this book considers the epistemological, cultural and social issues that arose from psychical researchers’ and parapsychologists’ claims to scientific legitimacy. Focusing on the boundary disputes between these researchers and the spiritualists, occultists, psychologists and scientists with whom they competed for authority over the paranormal, The Stepchildren of Science demonstrates that in the German context both proponents and opponents alike understood psychical research and parapsychology as border sciences.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042027290
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Leading the reader through the darkened séance rooms and laboratories of Imperial and inter-war Germany, The Stepchildren of Science casts light on the emergence of psychical research and parapsychology in the German context. It looks, in particular, at the role of the psychiatrist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing - a figure who fashioned himself as both propagandist and Grand Seignior of German parapsychology - in shaping these nascent disciplines. In contrast to other recent studies in which occultism is seen as a means of dealing with or creating “the modern”, this book considers the epistemological, cultural and social issues that arose from psychical researchers’ and parapsychologists’ claims to scientific legitimacy. Focusing on the boundary disputes between these researchers and the spiritualists, occultists, psychologists and scientists with whom they competed for authority over the paranormal, The Stepchildren of Science demonstrates that in the German context both proponents and opponents alike understood psychical research and parapsychology as border sciences.