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Book title: A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology.
Contributors: Paul Kurtz - Editor.
Publisher: Prometheus Books.
Place of publication: Buffalo, NY.
Publication year: 1985.
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Table of contents
- A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology *
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction More Than a Century of Psychical Research xi
- Contributors xxv
- Part 1 - Historical Overviews *
- 1 - A Critical Historical Overview of Parapsychology Ray Hyman *
- 2 - The Search for a Demonstration of ESP C. E. M. Hansel 97
- 3 - Psychokinesis: Fifty Years Afterward Edward Girden and Ellen Girden 129
- 4 - Modern Occultism Simon Newcomb 147
- 5 - The Need for Responsibility in Parapsychology: My Sixty Years in Psychical Research E. J. Dingwall 161
- Part 2 - The Argument from Fraud 174
- 6 - Spiritualists, Mediums, and Psychics: Some Evidence of Fraud Paul Kurtz *
- 7 - Spiritualism Exposed: Margaret Fox Kane Confesses to Fraud 225
- 8 - Confessions of a Telepathist: Thirty-Year Hoax Exposed Douglas Blackburn 235
- 9 - Metapsychics and the Incredulity of Psychologists: Psychical Research before 1927 John E. Coover 241
- 10 - Fraudulent Children in Psychical Research J. Fraser Nicol 275
- 11 - The Establishment of Data Manipulation in the Soal-Shackleton Experiments Betty Markwick 287
- 12 - J. B. Rhine and the Levy Scandal D. Scott Rogo 313
- 13 - A Note on Borley Rectory: "The Most Haunted House in England" Trevor H. Hall 327
- 14 - The Role of Conjurers in Psi Research James Randi 339
- 15 - Magicians in the Psi Lab: Many Misconceptions Martin Gardner 351
- Part 3 - Parapsychologists Reply 356
- 16 - What Is Your Counter-Explanation? a Plea to Skeptics to Think Again John Beloff *
- 17 - Parapsychology and Its Critics Douglas M. Stokes 379
- 18 - The Adventures of a Psi-Inhibitory Experimenter Susan Blackmore 425
- 19 - Skeptical Literature on Parapsychology: an Annotated Bibliography Gerd H. HöVelmann with Marcello Truzzi and Piet Hein Hoebens 449
- Annotation to the Annotated Bibliography Ray Hyman 490
- Part 4 - Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience 494
- 20 - Why Parapsychology Demands a Skeptical Response Christopher Scott *
- 21 - Is Parapsychology a Science? Paul Kurtz 503
- 22 - Parapsychology: Science or Pseudoscience? Antony Flew 519
- 23 - Parapsychology as a "Spiritual" Science James E. Alcock 537
- Part 5 - Some Methodological and Theoretical Issues *
- 24 - Statistical Problems in ESP Research Persi Diaconis *
- 25 - Parapsychology and Quantum Mechanics Martin Gardner 585
- 26 - Detective Work in Parapsychology Denys Parsons 599
- 27 - Can Meta-Analysis Resolve the ESP Controversy? Charles Akers 611
- Part 6 - Further Critiques *
- 28 - Reflections on Psychic Sleuths Piet Hein Hoebens with Marcello Truzzi *
- 29 - Evidence for Survival from Near-Death Experiences? a Critical Appraisal Gerd H. HöVelmann 645
- 30 - Magical Thinking and Parapsychology Leonard Zusne 685
- Index 700
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