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Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum

Ghost Hunters

William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

By Deborah Blum

By Deborah Blum

By Deborah Blum

By Deborah Blum

Category: Philosophy | Science

Category: Philosophy | Science

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May 29, 2007 | 384 Pages

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    About Ghost Hunters

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner’s Handbook tells the amazing story of William James’s quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world

    What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into ?unexplainable? incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued? and what they found?raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.

    About Ghost Hunters

    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner’s Handbook tells the amazing story of William James’s quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world

    What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts? At the close of the nineteenth century, the illustrious William James led a determined scientific investigation into ?unexplainable? incidences of clairvoyance and ghostly visitations. James and a small group of eminent scientists staked their reputations, their careers, even their sanity on one of the most extraordinary quests ever undertaken: to empirically prove the existence of ghosts, spirits, and psychic phenomena. What they pursued? and what they found?raises questions as fascinating today as they were then.

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    The Poisoner's Handbook
    Sex on the Brain
    See all books by Deborah Blum

    About Deborah Blum

    Deborah Blum is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and publisher of Undark magazine, (undark.org). In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars…. More about Deborah Blum

    About Deborah Blum

    Deborah Blum is director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, and publisher of Undark magazine, (undark.org). In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize for a series on primate research, which she turned into a book, The Monkey Wars…. More about Deborah Blum

    Product Details

    Category: Philosophy | Science

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 29, 2007 | 384 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-7/16 | ISBN 9780143038955

    Category: Philosophy | Science

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    May 29, 2007 | 384 Pages | ISBN 9781101042533

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    Praise

    Fascinating . . . Blum tells her literally wondrous tale very well. (The New York Times Book Review)

    A fascinating reminder that reason and revelation are not opposites. (James Shreve, author of The Genome War)

    Table Of Contents

    Ghost HuntersPrelude
    1. The Night Side
    2. A Spirit of Unbelief
    3. Lights and Shadows
    4. Metaphysics and Metatrousers
    5. Infinite Rationality
    6. All Ye Who Enter Here
    7. The Principles of Psychology
    8. The Invention of Ectoplasm
    9. The Unearthly Archive
    10. A Prophecy of Death
    11. A Force Not Generally Recognized
    12. A Ghost Story

    Acknowledgments
    Notes and Sources
    Index

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