Debating Psychic Experience: Human Potential or Human Illusion? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780313392610)

This book presents a provocative debate between parapsychological advocates who claim that Western science's worldview is incomplete, and counteradvocates who insist that parapsychological data is either spurious or can be explained by standard scientific principles.

Despite ongoing and repeated attempts to prove or disprove the existence of parapsychological events, there are still no conclusive findings--and certainly no consensus across the worldwide community of scholars, scientists, and proponents of psychic phenomena. Still, there is no shortage of information about this fascinating topic to allow everyone to draw their own conclusions.

This book has been expressly written to make each chapter and topic accessible to a general audience, despite containing a vast amount of theoretical material. The book is organized into two parts: in the first section, proponents of the validity of parapsychological data and critics who reject that validity state their respective positions. In the second part, each group responds to each others' statements in the form of a debate. Other experts from the United States as well as from Australia and Great Britain provide overviews and conclusions.

Author: Ruth Richards
ISBN-10: 0313392617
ISBN-13: 9780313392610
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 09/02/2010
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2010 pg. 13