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Collection of essays that clarifies and evaluates the various aspects of paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, psychokinesis, trance-mediumship, near-death experiences and past-life memories.
Critical Reflections on the Paranormal discusses various aspects of paranormal phenomena such as telepathy, psychokinesis, trance-mediumship, near-death experiences, and past-life memories. It reflects on what is reasonable to believe about them, and why; and it suggests what changes they might demand in our worldview, if these phenomena are accepted as genuine.
The collection includes essays written by Susan Armstrong, Heather Botting, Stephen Braude, Don Evans, David Ray Griffin, James Horne, Terence Penelhum, and the editors.
"This book deals with a topic often mistakenly dismissed by scholars as magic or superstition due to our dominant materialistic-rational-empirical worldview. Stoeber and Meynell's book, by contrast, approaches the topic as one deserving of serious scholarly study and carries out its analysis with academic rigor. It engages several of North America's best philosophical minds in the process and produces a very readable result." — Harold Coward, University of Victoria
Acknowledgments
1. Critical Reflections on the Paranormal: An Introduction
Michael Stoeber
2. On Investigation of the So-Called Paranormal
Hugo Meynell
3. Parapsychology: Merits and Limits
Donald Evans
4. Why Critical Reflection on the Paranormal Is So Important—And So Difficult
David Ray Griffin
5. Reflections on Incorporeal Agency
Terence Penelhum
6. Souls in Process: A Theoretical Inquiry into Animal Psi
Susan J. Armstrong
7. Medico-Scientific Assumptions Regarding Paradeath Phenomena: Explanation or Obfuscation?
Heather Botting
8. Postmortem Survival: The State of the Debate
Stephen E. Braude
9. Morality and Parapsychology
James R. Horne
List of Contributors
Index