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Philosophy of science and the occult

Title
Philosophy of science and the occult / edited by Patrick Grim.
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1990.

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Additional Authors
Grim, Patrick.
Description
395 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Series Statement
SUNY series in philosophy
Uniform Title
SUNY series in philosophy
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Objections to astrology : a statement by 186 leading scientists -- The strange case of astrology / Paul Feyerabend -- On dismissing astrology and other irrationalities / Edward W. James -- Spheres of influence / Michel Gauquelin -- Astrology : a critical review / I.W. Kelly, G.A. Dean, and D.H. Saklofske -- Winning through pseudoscience / Clark Glymour and Douglas Stalker -- Science : conjectures and refutations / Karl R. Popper -- Demarcating genuine science from pseudoscience / Daniel Rothbart -- Logic of discovery or psychology of research? / Thomas S. Kuhn -- The Popperian versus the Kuhnian research programme / Imre Lakatos -- Kuhn, Popper, and the normative problem of demarcation / Robert Feleppa -- The conservatism of "pseudoscience" / Roger Cooter -- Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos : a crisis of modern intellect / Robert F. Baum -- Parapsychology : an empirical science / Ruth Reinsel -- Coincidence and explanation / Galen K. Pletcher -- Parapsychology : science or pseudoscience? / Antony Flew -- Philosophical difficulties with paranormal knowledge claims / Jane Duran -- Precognition and the paradoxes of causality / Bob Brier and Maithili Schmidt-Raghavan -- Second report on a case of experimenter fraud / J.B. Rhine -- [Quantum mysticism] Conflicting notes from Einstein and Bohr -- The unity of all things / Fritjof Capra -- Einstein doesn't like it / Gary Zukav -- The yogi and the quantum / Robert P. Crease, Charles C. Mann -- Quantum mysteries for anyone / N. David Mermin -- Mind, matter, and quantum mechanics / Marshall Spector -- Notes on mysticism and nitrous oxide / William James -- Tacit assumptions / Edward Conze -- Scientific and other values / Patrick Grim.
ISBN
  • 0791402045
  • 9780791402047
  • 0873955730
  • 9780873955737
LCCN
90009619
OCLC
  • ocm21196067
  • 21196067
  • SCSB-1918427
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library