Philosophy and Psychical Research by Shivesh C Thakur - 9781138884281

Taylor & Francis

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; Chaptery