Science and Psychical Research

Psychical research in the history and philosophy of science. An introduction and review.

As a prelude to articles published in this special issue, I sketch changing historiographical conventions regarding the 'occult' in recent history of science and medicine scholarship. Next, a review of standard claims regarding psychical research and parapsychology in philosophical discussions of the demarcation problem reveals that these have tended to disregard basic primary sources and inste...

Psychical research and the origins of American psychology

Largely unacknowledged by historians of the human sciences, late-19th-century psychical researchers were actively involved in the making of fledgling academic psychology. Moreover, with few exceptions historians have failed to discuss the wider implications of the fact that the founder of academic psychology in America, William James, considered himself a psychical researcher and sought to inte...

Physical and Psychical Research. An Analysis of Belief

The blurb on the dust-cover of this book claims that it states an important new principle and, hence, that it is important. It aims at integrating in mathematical terms, the physical and psychological sides of science, for which purpose it includes a purely mathematical appendix on the "reversed loop". Presumably, there are people who are able to see how the writers work out their thesis. But t...

Journal of Membrane Science and Research

Journal of Membrane Science and Research