Philosophy and Psychical Research

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-138-88428-1
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thakur, Shivesh C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Shivesh C. Thakur University of Surrey