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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/13073577 Title: A Skeptic's handbook of parapsychology Author: Paul Kurtz Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1985. ISBN/ISSN: 0879753021 9780879753023 0879753005 9780879753009 OCLC:13073577

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A Skeptic's handbook of parapsychology

Author:	Paul Kurtz
Publisher:	Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, ©1985.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Skeptic's handbook of parapsychology. Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1985 (OCoLC)565597601
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Paul Kurtz Find more information about:
ISBN:	0879753021 9780879753023 0879753005 9780879753009
OCLC Number:	13073577
Description:	xxvii, 727 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	pt. 1. Historical overviews: A critical historical overview of paraspychology / Ray Hyman ; The search for a demonstration of ESP / C.E.M. Hansel ; Psychokinesis : fifty years afterward / Edward Girden and Ellen Girden ; Modern occultism / Simon Newcomb ; The need for responsibility in parapsychology : my sixty years of psychical research / E.J. Dingwall -- pt. 2. The argument from fraud: Spiritualists, mediums, and psychics : some evidence of fraud / Paul Kurtz ; Spiritualism exposed : Margaret Fox Kane confesses to fraud / Margaret Fox Kane ; Confessions of a "telepthist" / Douglas Blackburn ; Metapsychics and the incredulity of psychologists / John E. Coover ; Fraudulent children in psychical research / J. Fraser Nicol ; The establishment of data manipulation in the Soal-Shackleton experiments / Betty Markwick ; J.B. Rhine and the Levy scandal / D. Scott Rogo ; A note on Borley Rectory : "the most haunted house in England" / Trevor H. Hall ; The role of conjurors in psi research / James Randi ; Magicians in the psi lab : many misperceptions / Martin Gardner -- pt. 3. Parapsychologists reply: What is your counter-explanation? : a plea to skeptics to think again / John Beloff ; Parapsychology and its critics / Douglas M. Stokes ; The adventures of a psi-inhibitory experimenter / Susan Blackmore ; Skeptical literature on paraspsychology : an annotated bibliography / Gerd Hövelmann ; annotation to the annotated bibliography, by Ray Hyman -- pt. 4. Parapsychology : science or pseudoscience?: Why parapsychology demands a critical response / Christopher Scott ; Is parapsychology a science? / Paul Kurtz ; Parapsychology : science or pseudoscience? / Antony Flew ; Parasyscjology as a 'spiritual" science / James E. Alcock -- pt. 5. Some methodological and theroetical issues: Statistical problems in ESP research / Persi Diaconis ; Psrapsychology and quantum mechanics / Martin Gardner ; Detective work in parapsychology / Denys Parsons ; Can meta-analysis resolve the ESP controversy? / Charles Akers -- pt. 6. Further critiques: Reflections on psychic sleuths / Piet Hein Hoebens (ed. by Marcello Truzzi) ; Evidence of survival from near-death experiences? / Gerd H. Hövelmann ; Magical thinking and parapsychology / Leonard Zusne.
Responsibility:	edited by Paul Kurtz.

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