1st Edition

Philosophy and Psychical Research

By Thakur, Shivesh C Copyright 1976
    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    212 Pages
    by Routledge

    First published in 2002. This is Volume XV of seventeen in the Philosophy of Mind and Psychology series. The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was designed as a contribution to the History of Modern Philosophy under the heads: first of Different Schools of Thought-Sensationalist, Realist, Idealist, Intuitivist; secondly of different Subjects-Psychology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Theology. Written in 1976, this is a collection of essays by a number of well-known philosophers who were invited to write on whichever philosophical issue relating to psychical research interested them most.

    Chapter 1 ESP and Attempts to Explain it, AlanGauld; Chapter 2 The Metaphysics of Precognition, Bob Brier; Chapter 3 ESP and the Materialist Theory of Mind, David E. Cooper; Chapter 4, Antony Flew; Chapter 5 Religion and Psychical Research, Jonathan Harrison; Chapter 6 Some Aspects of the Problem of Survival, Pamela M. Huby; Chapter 7 Religion and the Paranormal, Hywel D. Lewis; Chapter 8 On the ‘Psychic’ Powers of Nonhuman Animals, C. W. K. Mundle; Chapter 9 Explanations of the Supernatural, Michael Scriven; Chapter 10 Telepathy, Evolution and Dualism, Shivesh C. Thakur;

    Biography

    Shivesh C. Thakur University of Surrey