Science and Psychic Phenomena The Fall of the House of Skeptics

Foreword by Rupert Sheldrake

Introduction

Background
The Nature of the Controversy

1 Origins of the Debate
2 The Modern Critics
3 The Historical Evidence

Question I
Is There Conclusive Experimental Evidence for Psi?

4 The Early Years
5 Psychokinesis: Mind over Matter
6 Telepathy: Silent Communication
7 The Great Ganzfeld Debate
8 The Research of the Skeptics

Question II
Would the Existence of Psi Contradict Established Science?

9 The Roots of Disbelief
10 Modern Science versus Classical Science
11 The “Extraordinary Claims” of Parapsychology
12 Psi and Physics
13 Toward a New Worldview

Question III
Is Parapsychology a Science?

14 The Impoverished State of Skepticism
15 The Nature of Science
16 The Scientific Status of Parapsychology
17 Hume’s Argument Revisited
18 Paradigms and Parapsychology

Postscript

Notes

Bibliography

Index