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Frames of Meaning The Social Construction of Extraordinary Science
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Routledge
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Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1982. Taking a radical interpretation of the Kuhnian concept of paradigm incommensurability, the authors begin by discussing the difficulties of gaining access to the ideas of communities with different rational categories, and then define the subject area of parapsychology, offering a review of the relevant literature. After exploring parapsychology’s compatibility with... Read more
INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 THE IDEA OF SOCIO-COGNITIVE DISCONTINUITY AND ITS PROBLEMS; Chapter 2 PARANORMAL METAL BENDING RESEARCH; Chapter 3 IS PARAPSYCHOLOGY COMPATIBLE WITH SCIENCE?; Chapter 4 IS PARAPSYCHOLOGY COMPATIBLE WITH SCIENCE?; Chapter 5 PARANORMAL METAL BENDING AT BATH; Chapter 6 PARANORMAL METAL BENDING AT BATH; Chapter 7 EXPERIMENT AND PARADIGM; Chapter 8 EXPERIMENT AND PARADIGM; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Name Index; Subject Index;
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H. M. Collins, T. J. Pinch
