Concept
Parapsychology
Overview
Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena (extrasensory perception, telepathy, teleportation, precognition, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and psychometry) and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it. Parapsychology has been criticized for continuing investigation despite being unable to provide reproducible evidence for the existence of any psychic phenomena after more than a century of research.
Parapsychology research rarely appears in mainstream scientific journals; a few niche journals publish most papers about parapsychology.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Possible passages
Found by search and not yet checked by a person; they may only mention the idea in passing.
Our first conclusion, then, is that a certain amount of brain-physiology must be presupposed or included in Psychology.[1] * * * * * In still another way the psychologist is forced to be something of a nerve-physiologist. Mental phenomena are not only conditioned _a parte ante_ by bodily processes; but they lead to them _a parte post_.
William James, The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1
The author is tied to Parapsychology in the knowledge graph.
This is one possible way of interpreting a certain type of psychical phenomenon. It uses psychological as well as "spiritual" factors, and quite obviously it throws open for us far more questions than it answers, questions about our subconscious constitution and its curious tendency to humbug,…
William James, Memories and Studies
States what Parapsychology is; the author is tied to Parapsychology in the knowledge graph.
And the second is the unfailing or accurate regularity, so contrary to the hesitating and uncertain procedure of our conscious and reasoned action, which so often is seen in the unreflecting and unreasoned movements. To this invariable sequence of psychical movement the superior control and direction by the intelligent self has to adapt itself, just as it respects the order of physical laws.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
States what Parapsychology is.
Philosophers who discussed Parapsychology
- Julian Huxley
- David Ray Griffin
- Henry Sidgwick
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- H. H. Price
- Arthur Schopenhauer
- Hans Driesch
- Curt John Ducasse
- Gerard Heymans
Related ideas
- Falsifiability
- German language
- Ghost
- Second law of thermodynamics
- Antony Flew
- Henri Bergson
- Philosophy
- Durham, North Carolina
- McFarland & Company
- London
- Massimo Pigliucci
- Mind
- University of Chicago Press
- Meditation
- Spiritualism (movement)
- Mario Bunge
- Martin Gardner
- Henry Sidgwick
- Astrology
- Paul Edwards (philosopher)
- Nervous system
- Occult
- Null hypothesis
- Mediumship
Place in the tradition
Part of New Age.