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Society for Psychical Research
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It is a circumstance of good augury that certain scientifically trained minds in all countries seem drifting to the same conclusion. The Society for Psychical Research has been one means of bringing science and the occult together in England and America; and believing that this Society fulfils a function which, though limited, is destined to be not unimportant in the organization of human knowledge, I am glad to…
William James, The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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I don't know whether you have heard of the London "Society for Psychical Research," which is seriously and laboriously investigating all sorts of "supernatural" matters, clairvoyance, apparitions, etc. I don't know what you think of such work; but I think that the present condition of opinion regarding it is scandalous, there being a mass of testimony, or apparent testimony, about such things, at which the only men…
William James, The Letters of William James, Vol. 1
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It is upon this profound slumber that psychology ought to direct its efforts, not only to study the mechanism of unconscious memory, but to examine the more mysterious phenomena which are raised by "psychical research." I do not dare express an opinion upon phenomena of this class, but I cannot avoid attaching some importance to the observations gathered by so rigorous a method and with such indefatigable zeal by…
Henri Bergson, Dreams
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Philosophers who discussed Society for Psychical Research
- Henri Bergson
- Julian Huxley
- Henry Sidgwick
- H. H. Price
- C. D. Broad
- Hans Driesch
- Horace Kallen
- Gerard Heymans
Related ideas
- Henri Bergson
- Andrew Lang
- India
- Helena Blavatsky
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
- Henry Sidgwick
- Mediumship
- Psychology
- Sigmund Freud
- H. H. Price
- Paul Kurtz
- Deductive reasoning
- C. D. Broad
- English language
- William James
- Gilbert Murray
- Hans Driesch
- Victor J. Stenger
- Odic force
- Gerard Heymans
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Part of British philosophy.
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